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07/12/2010 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Paula Creamer finally earned her first major championship on Sunday at the U.S. Women's Open and the victory moved her back into the top 10 of the world rankings.
Creamer vaulted up six places to seventh this week.
Cristie Kerr remained in first for the third week in a row, followed by Ai Miyazato. Suzann Pettersen, who shared second place at Oakmont, moved up one to third, while former No. 1 Jiyai Shin dipped one to fourth.
Yani Tseng stayed in fifth and Na Yeon Choi, who shared runner-up honors with Pettersen, rose two to No. 6. Creamer was next and Anna Nordqvist and Song-Hee Kim both dropped two places. Karrie Webb sank one to round out the top 10.
In Kyung Kim climbed up one peg to 11th and Michelle Wie and Angela Stanford both fell two to 12th and 13th, respectively. Inbee Park, Sakura Yokomine, Morgan Pressel, Mi-Jeong Jeon, Chie Arimura, Catriona Matthew and Hee Kyeong Seo stayed pat.
<< Seven finalists return to Walter Payton Award Watch List
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The race for the 2010 Walter Payton Award,
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announcement that seven finalists from last season are part of a stellar 20-
player Watch List
<< Blackhawks re-sign assistant coach Haviland; add Kitchen to staff
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Blackhawks on Monday re-signed assistant
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"Adding Mike Kitchen and bringing back Mike Haviland bolster what is already a
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<< National League mid-term grades
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - In the National League, those preseason
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Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - There have been plenty of storylines to
keep us busy during the first half of the American League schedule, and a
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Two horse race continues in NTRA Poll >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Following a one week break from voting in the
NTRA National Poll, the same two horses remain on top of the tabulation.
Champion mare Zenyatta holds a narrow lead over four-year-old colt Quality
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NL Pitcher Gets All-Star Snub >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For those of you still wrapped up in Strasburg-
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Duquesne names two coordinators >>
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elevated from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator, Dukes coach Jerry
Schmitt annou
Edoardo Molinari in top 20 of world rankings >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Edoardo Molinari collected his first
European Tour win Sunday at the Scottish Open and in the process, moved inside
the top 20 of the world rankings.
Molinari moved up 22 places to 19th this week.
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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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