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<< Bucks' Hammond named executive of the year
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond was named the 2009-10 NBA Executive of the Year on Saturday. The league announced the honor the same day the Bucks host Atlanta in Game 3 of their Eastern Con

<< Padres blank Reds, extend win streak to eight games
Cincinnati, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Will Venable hit a two-run homer and Adrian Gonzalez added a solo shot, as the San Diego Padres picked up their eighth straight win after claiming a 5-0 decision over the Cincinnati Reds in the second

<< Rooney could miss remainder of season
Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney could miss the remainder of the Premier League season with a groin injury. Rooney was a spectator as United leapfrogged Chelsea at the top of the table with a 3

<< Bean and Lu lead Legends
Savannah, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Andy Bean and Chien Soon Lu used a fantastic back nine Saturday to fire a 12-under 60 and move atop the leaderboard after the second round of the Legends of Golf. Bean and Lu are at 19-under 125 and ar

Bohn takes 36-hole lead in New Orleans >>
Avondale, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jason Bohn shot a five-under 67 and moved into the lead Saturday after the second round of the weather-delayed Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Bohn played all 18 holes of his second round Saturday after play wa

Nelson, Magic edge Bobcats to take 3-0 series lead >>
Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jameer Nelson scored a game-high 32 points and the Orlando Magic made enough free throws down the stretch to escape Time Warner Cable Arena with a 90-86 victory and a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Cha

Blazers' Roy returns just eight days after surgery >>
Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy made his unlikely 2010 postseason debut on Saturday in Game 4 of Portland's Western Conference quarterfinal series with the Suns. Roy underwent successful surgery on

Grube and Lee lead in Mexico >>
Nayarit, Mexico (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - American Rob Grube posted a four-under 68 on Saturday and was joined atop the leaderboard by Lucas Lee after the third round of the Riviera Nayarit Classic. Grube, a second-round co-leader, and Lee,

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.