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08/16/2010 - Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Blackhawks have re-signed defenseman Nick Boynton to a one-year contract, the team announced Monday.
Chicago acquired Boynton, 31, from Anaheim in March, and the defenseman played in seven regular season games for the Blackhawks before helping them win the Stanley Cup Finals.
In 49 regular season games between the Ducks and Blackhawks in 2009-10, Boynton posted one goal, seven assists and 71 penalty minutes.
Boynton, a first-round selection by the Bruins in the 1999 NHL Draft, has recorded 33 goals, 103 assists and 822 penalty minutes in 554 career games. In 10 NHL seasons, he has played with Boston, Phoenix, Florida, Anaheim and Chicago.
<< 'Electrifying' Banks impressing Redskins coaches
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -Brandon Banks has a bloodline for speed to offset a body not meant for football.The undrafted Washington Redskins rookie is no longer just a long shot to make the team, not after his 77-yard punt return for a touchdown against Buf
<< Reina's blunder is the least of Liverpool's concerns
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Every English Premier League season is a
38-game grind that spans nine months, so the events that take place on the
opening weekend of the season are often long forgotten by the time the leaves
begin t
<< Toulouse striker Pentecote set to miss six months
Toulouse, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ligue 1 leaders Toulouse have suffered a
major injury blow as striker Xavier Pentecote will miss the next six months
after sustaining a knee injury in Sunday's 2-1 win over Bordeaux.
"Having taken a b
<< Kerr back to No. 1 in world rankings
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cristie Kerr returned to No. 1 in this
week's edition of the world rankings.
Despite the LPGA Tour having the week off, Kerr, who moved to first with her
win at the LPGA Championship, is up one to
Team USA turns the page >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With Mike Krzyzewski at the helm of USA
Basketball, the operative word is always going to be "team."
You probably aren't going to describe the 2010 USA Men's World Championship
club with the adjective "dream"
Zenyatta and Blame top thoroughbred poll >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Champion mare Zenyatta and Whitney champ Blame
continue to lead the NTRA National Thoroughbred Poll. The top five positions
remain unchanged from last week.
Zenyatta, perfect this year in four starts, ag
Peer exits Rogers Cup >>
Montreal, QC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Israeli Shahar Peer went by way of an opening-
round upset Monday at the $2 million Rogers Cup, a U.S. Open tune-up.
Wimbledon quarterfinalist Kaia Kanepi, of Estonia, upended the 14th-seeded
Peer in 6-3, 6-3
Colts DB Silva tears ACL, will miss season >>
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Indianapolis Colts announced on Monday
reserve defensive back Jamie Silva will miss the entire 2010 season after
suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
The injury happened during the Col
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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