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76ers continue homestand vs. SunsBasketball Betting Lines02/28/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Philadelphia 76ers resume a six-game homestand this evening when they welcome the Phoenix Suns to the Wachovia Center. Philadelphia opened the homestand with an 89-82 win over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night. Samuel Dalembert posted 20 points and 17 rebounds to help the Sixers end a two-game skid. Andre Iguodala notched 22 points and eight boards for the 76ers, who won for just the second time in seven games. Andre Miller scored 18 points in the win, as the 76ers improved to 11-15 at home this season. They will also host Memphis, New Jersey, Seattle and the Los Angeles Lakers during the homestand. The Sixers are also 12 games off the lead in the Atlantic standings. Meanwhile, the Pacific Division-leading Suns have won five in a row and posted a 103-92 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. Steve Nash had 25 points and 11 assists to help the Suns battle back from an 18-point deficit in the third quarter. Amare Stoudemire finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds, while Shawn Marion scored 22 points for the Suns, who improved to 3-0 on their four-game road trip. Phoenix, which is 14-0 on the road against Eastern Conference teams, will wrap up the trek tonight in Philly, and is 23-7 as the visitor this season. Wednesday's showdown between Phoenix and Philly is the second and final meeting of the season. The Suns won the first matchup, 106-94, on November 17 at US Airways Center. Phoenix has won five straight, eight of nine and 11 of the last 15 meetings in the series. It has also won two straight and three of its last four trips to the City of Brotherly Love.
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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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