10/02/2008 - Metz, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fourth-seeded French crowd favorite Paul- Henri Mathieu was among Thursday's second-round winners at the $540,000 Open de Moselle tennis tournament.
Mathieu whipped qualifier and fellow Frenchman Romain Jouan 6-3, 6-3 on the indoor hardcourt at Les Arenes. The 23-year-old Jouan was making his ATP debut this week.
Up next for Mathieu will be dangerous Serbian Janko Tipsarevic.
Meanwhile, seventh-seeded Czech Radek Stepanek outlasted French crowd favorite Michael Llodra 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 7-6 (7-0).
In some other second-round action, French qualifier Adrian Mannarino topped South African qualifier Rik De Voest 6-4, 7-5, Marc Gicquel saved some set points in the second set en route to handling wild card and fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) and Argentine Eduardo Schwank outlasted Romanian Victor Hanescu 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3. The 20-year-old Mannarino is playing in only his second ATP-level event.
Friday's other quarterfinal matches will pit fifth-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursunov against former world No. 1 Spaniard Carlos Moya, Stepanek versus Schwank and the upstart Mannarino against his countryman Gicquel.
The 2008 titlist here will take home $85,000.
<< Chelios out 3-6 weeks
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Red Wings veteran defenseman Chris Chelios
suffered a fractured right tibia and will be out of the Detroit lineup
for three-to-six weeks.
Chelios suffered the injury while blocking a shot during
<< Blackburn's Ince seeking bargain buys
Blackburn, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Blackburn Rovers boss Paul Ince accepted
that he will have to seek bargain buys in the January transfer window, as he
seeks further recruits for his Ewood Park squad.
Rovers have made a solid start
<< Mourinho: Inter will advance in CL
Milan, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho shrugged off
criticism from supporters and insists his side will progress in the Champions
League despite an uncertain start to their Group B campaign.
The Italian champi
<< Sevilla star Fabiano to miss two weeks
Seville, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sevilla forward Luis Fabiano, who scored 24
goals in 30 La Liga matches last season, will miss two weeks after suffering a
thigh injury last weekend, it was revealed Thursday.
Fabiano, 28, suffered a torn
Bills sign Evans to extension >>
Orchard Park, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Buffalo Bills wide receiver Lee Evans
has signed a multi-year contract extension, the club announced Thursday.
Evans, selected 13th overall by the Bills in the 2004 draft, had been working
with Buff
Overton's 67 leads at chilly Turning Stone >>
Verona, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jeff Overton shot a five-under 67 in chilly
conditions Thursday to take the first-round lead at the Turning Stone Resort
Championship.
Steve Allan and Michael Allen were a stroke off the lead at four-
Rays 1B Pena leaves game >>
St. Petersburg, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Carlos
Pena left Thursday's 6-4 win over the Chicago White Sox in Game 1 of the
American League Division Series with blurred vision in his left eye.
Pena had appar
Mavs name Westphal VP of basketball operations >>
Dallas, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dallas named Paul Westphal executive vice
president of basketball operations on Thursday.
The 12-year NBA veteran brings a 25-year coaching career to his new role with
the Mavericks. Westphal led Phoenix
Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.
New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.
His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.
HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.
The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.
RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.
First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.
The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.
These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.
New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.
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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 won’t 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 doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s 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. Where’s 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, don’t 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 won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m 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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