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Hawks, Pacers collide in IndyBasketball Betting Lines12/26/2009 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Atlanta Hawks shoot for their fifth consecutive win over the Indiana Pacers when the two clubs square off Saturday night from Conseco Fieldhouse. Atlanta has won the last four games against Indiana, including a 120-109 victory back on October 28 this season at Philips Arena. The Hawks have won six of the past nine matchups with the Pacers, who are an impressive 15-3 in the previous 18 contests at home in this series. The Hawks have lost two of three overall since a six-game slide and will close out a four-game road trip tonight. In a 124-104 setback at Denver on Wednesday, Jamal Crawford had 24 points and Al Horford ended with 18 points and 11 rebounds in defeat. Josh Smith chipped in 17 points and nine rebounds, while Joe Johnson recorded 16 points and nine assists for Atlanta, which is 8-6 as the guest this season. "We were just awful tonight. We scored enough points but we haven't given up points like this, where 124 points is a lot for us," Hawks head coach Mike Woodson said. Atlanta is only a game behind Orlando for the top spot in the Southeast. Indiana will try to put the brakes on a four-game losing streak this evening and suffered a 103-94 loss at Boston on Tuesday. Troy Murphy posted game-highs of 24 points and 18 rebounds for the Pacers, who got 18 points, seven boards and six assists from Earl Watson. "It's tough, it's a problem we had last year, right now we're dealing with the same problem," said Pacers guard T.J. Ford, who had six points off the bench. "We're playing good for three quarters, then for a 12-minute span we're not doing the things necessary to win a ballgame. We're having trouble when we're getting the lead and being able to keep it." The Pacers are 6-7 at Conseco Fieldhouse this season.
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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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