05/20/2008 - Strasbourg, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fifth-seeded Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik booked a spot in the second round, while third-seeded French crowd favorite Virginie Razzano went by way of the upset Tuesday at the $175,000 Strasbourg International tennis tournament, a final clay-court tuneup for the French Open.
Srebotnik subdued young German Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 6-1, while Razzano was blasted by Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan 6-1, 6-0 at Ligue d'Alsace de Tennis.
Eighth-seeded Chinese Zi Yan was trailing Mara Santangelo 5-6 in the first set when the Italian retired from their bout with a left foot injury, thus giving Zi a spot in the round of 16.
Ukrainian qualifier Tatiana Perebiynis doused American Ashley Harkleroad 6-2, 6-1 on Day 2.
Additional wins came for Croatian qualifier Ana Vrljic, Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and Romanian Edina Gallovits. Bacsinszky took out Aussie wild card and former top-10 star Jelena Dokic 6-4, 6-2.
On Wednesday, second-round matches will come for top-seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli and reigning Strasbourg champion Anabel Medina Garrigues. The 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli will face Chinese Shuai Peng, while the sixth- seeded Medina Garrigues will tangle with Vrljic. The two-time Strasbourg titlist Medina Garrigues stunned Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo in last year's Strasbourg finale and also titled here in 2005.
<< Liverpool confirms addition of Swiss defender Degen
Liverpool, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Liverpool has confirmed that Switzerland
defender Philipp Degen will move to Anfield after the Euro finals.
The 25-year-old right-back has decided to make the move to England at the end
of his contract
<< Calleri, El Aynaoui land in Casablanca quarters
Casablanca, Morocco (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Third-seeded Argentine Agustin Calleri
and Moroccan veteran Younes El Aynaoui were among Tuesday's second-round
winners at the $575,000 Grand Prix Hassan II tennis event.
Calleri advanced to hi
<< Ferguson rules out Ronaldo exit
Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester United manager Sir Alex
Ferguson has dismissed reports suggesting Portugal international Cristiano
Ronaldo is set to leave Old Trafford and move to Real Madrid this summer.
Speaking
<< Is it time to hit panic button in D.C.?
Washington, D.C. (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With a 3-1 loss at Chivas USA on Saturday
night, one of Major League Soccer's proudest and most popular franchises, D.C.
United, hit rock bottom with its league leading sixth loss in eight fixtures
to star
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Davenport withdraws from Roland Garros >>
Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Three-time Grand Slam champion Lindsay
Davenport pulled out of the 2008 French Open on Tuesday, citing personal
reasons.
The 31-year-old former world No. 1 star has won every major event, with
FC Dallas fires coach Morrow >>
Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - FC Dallas fired coach Steve Morrow on Tuesday,
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The loss extended Dallas' winless streak to four games and dropped
Karl undergoes successful surgery >>
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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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