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Hapless Nets visit JazzBasketball Betting Lines01/23/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The resurgent Utah Jazz aim for a fifth consecutive home win Saturday night when they welcome the hapless New Jersey Nets to EnergySolutions Arena. The Jazz won for the fifth time in six games on Wednesday when Carlos Boozer scored 31 points and brought down 13 rebounds as Utah swept the first four- game season series from San Antonio in over 10 years behind a 105-98 victory at the AT&T Center. The Jazz became the first team to sweep a season series of four or more games from San Antonio since the Lakers did so during the 1997-98 season. Utah hadn't swept the Spurs in 15 years, last completing the feat back in 1993-94. Andrei Kirilenko dropped 26 points and secured eight boards, while Deron Williams had 18 points and 10 assists for Utah, which had won four straight prior to Sunday's 119-112 loss to Denver and survived a 25-0 Spurs run that spanned the first and second quarters. "I have to shoot in rhythm," Kirilenko said. "When I hesitate too much it doesn't go in. I have to stay in rhythm. I think I got into a good rhythm tonight. And when you feel like that, you really feel like you need to keep yourself in that rhythm because you're making your shots. It was a pretty nice game." The Nets, meanwhile, dropped their 10th straight game last night when rookie Stephen Curry notched a new career-best with 32 points and handed out seven assists as Golden State blew out NBA bottom- dwellers New Jersey by a 111-79 margin at ORACLE Arena. Brook Lopez had 21 points and Courtney Lee 17 for the lowly Nets, who continue to plummet towards dubious NBA marks having dropped and 20 of 21 overall and falling to a laughable 1-22 on the road. New Jersey hasn't tasted victory since beating New York 104-95 on Dec. 30. "We knew there was something wrong in the beginning and we didn't have a fix," Lopez said. The Nets are on pace to finish with just six wins, which would break the mark for NBA futility set by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, who finished 9-73.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALKNFL Football Trash TalkTrash 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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