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<< Stepanek ousted in San Jose
San Jose, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former champion Radek Stepanek was a second-round upset victim Thursday at the $531,000 SAP Open. Belgian Steve Darcis bounced the fourth-seeded Czech 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2) on the hardcourts at HP Pavilion.

<< Red Wings' Cleary placed on IR
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Red Wings placed forward Dan Cleary on injured reserve, retroactive to February 8, on Thursday. Cleary has been out since then after re-aggravating an existing knee injury. In 55 games th

<< Timbers sign Cameroonian midfielder Songo'o
Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Portland Timbers signed Cameroonian Franck Songo'o, a former Barcelona youth player, on Thursday. The 24-year-old Songo'o, capped one time by Cameroon, left Barca in 2005 and began his pro career in the

<< Burke placed on administrative leave
Emmitsburg, MD (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mount St. Mary's men's basketball coach Robert Burke has been placed on paid administrative leave. The school did not divulge details, saying the action was requested by Burke. Assistant coach Matt

MLS signs U.S. striker Johnson >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - U.S. national team striker Eddie Johnson will return to MLS this season, it was revealed Thursday. It will take one more day to determine which team he will play for, however. The 27-year-old Johnson, who le

Berdych, del Potro land in Rotterdam quarters >>
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych and former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro reached the quarterfinals at the $1.6 million ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament. The second-seeded Ber

Oilers, Ducks swap players >>
Edmonton, AB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Edmonton Oilers acquired defenseman Bryan Rodney from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for center Ryan O'Marra. The 27-year-old Rodney has five goals and 15 assists in 41 games with the Syracuse Crunch

Creative Cause heads San Vicente Stakes >>
Arcadia, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Creative Cause, third in last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile, heads a field of six in Sunday's $150,000 San Vicente Stakes for three-year-olds at Santa Anita Park. The seven-furlong sprint marks the 2012 debut f

FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).

Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.

Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).

Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.

Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.

The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.

What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.

Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.

But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.

In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.

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