07/12/2007 - London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - West Ham has signed Wales striker Craig Bellamy to a five-year, $15.11 million contract.
Bellamy, 27, played for English Premier League rival Liverpool last year, scoring seven goals.
West Ham, which barely avoided relegation last season, previously signed Scott Parker from Newcastle earlier in the offseason.
Bellamy was expendable at Liverpool after the signing of Spain international Fernando Torres. Liverpool's offense also includes Peter Crouch, Dirk Kuyt and Andriy Voronin.
<< Marseille midfielder to miss start of season
Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Marseille midfielder Samir Nasri will miss
the start of the upcoming season with an ankle injury.
He was injured during a preseason friendly against league rival Bordeaux on
Saturday. Nasri, 20, is exp
<< Isles ink Aaron Johnson
Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Islanders signed
defenseman Aaron Johnson to a one-year contract Thursday. Terms of the deal
were not disclosed.
The 24-year-old Johnson had three goals and 10 assists in 61 ga
<< Chicago White Sox midseason report
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Flat. Pathetic. A joke. Little League.
These are all words used by Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen to
describe the play of his team over the past three months. It has been that
type of a season for a team only two
<< Penguins re-sign Armstrong to two-year deal
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed forward
Colby Armstrong to a two-year contract Thursday.
The 24-year-old Armstrong had 12 goals and 22 assists last season for the
Penguins in 80 games.
"Colby i
Czech star Nedved to remain with Juve >>
Turin, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved agreed to a one-
year contract extension with Juventus on Wednesday.
Nedved's contract expired at the end of the last season and he was considering
retirement. He turned down an
Padres' Wells suspended seven games >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Major League Baseball suspended San Diego
Padres pitcher David Wells seven games and fined him an undisclosed amount for
his inappropriate actions on Saturday, July 7th after being ejected for
arguing
Rangers sign Scottish international McCulloch >>
Glasgow, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Scotland international Lee McCulloch
agreed to a four-year, $2.5 million with the Glasgow Rangers on Wednesday.
McCulloch, 29, comes over from English Premier League club Wigan. He scored
four goa
Czech star Smicer returns to Slavia Prague >>
Prague, Czech Republic (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Czech international Vladimir Smicer
signed a one-year contract to return to Slavia Prague, 11 years after he left
the team to continue a great club career in France and England.
Smicer, 34, joine
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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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