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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Russian star Elena Dementieva was an easy first-round winner, while second-seeded Chinese Li Na went by way of the upset Tuesday at the inaugural $220,000 Malaysian Open. The two

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<< Ferrero will lead Spain next week
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With injured former world No. 1 superstar Rafael Nadal on the sideline, Juan Carlos Ferrero will be Spain's top player next week when the two-time defending Davis Cup champs host Switzerland in an opening

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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Celtics newcomer Nate Robinson will welcome his former employer to Boston this evening, when the New York Knicks pay a visit to TD Garden in a showdown between Atlantic Division rivals. Robinson was acquired by Boston befo

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Nashville, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Nashville Predators and Bridgestone Americas announced a five-year agreement Tuesday regarding the naming rights for the club's home arena. The deal is pending Sports Authority approval; the n

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Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - I am not a big fan of the NBA's "wink- wink" rule. I call it the "wink-wink" rule because the league has allowed players that have been traded and subsequently waived to rejoin their old clubs after a 30-

Nashville extends AHL affiliation with Milwaukee >>
Nashville, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Nashville Predators extended their American Hockey league affiliation agreement with the Milwaukee Admirals through the 2011-12 season, the NHL team announced. The agreement also has a mutual

Wizards F Howard tears ACL, out for season >>
Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Washington Wizards forward Josh Howard will miss the remainder of the 2009-10 season after tearing the ACL in his left knee on Monday. Howard was injured in the first quarter of Monday's 101-95 win ov

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.