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08/05/2010 -
CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) -Joe Namath says this year's Jets have the ``most legitimate chance'' to deliver New York a championship since the franchise's first - and only - Super Bowl victory.
Namath is visiting training camp and spoke about this year's team, including Mark Sanchez and Darrelle Revis, and his favorite memories from that 1969 Super Bowl title.
Broadway Joe, decked out in Jets gear with his hair wet from watching practice in a driving rain, says the only concern he has about this year's team is the left guard position. He says he was ``confused, upset'' when the Jets cut Alan Faneca in April.
Namath also says he's confident holdout cornerback Darrelle Revis will return soon after talking to ``some important people.''Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
<< It's official: Modano signs with Red Wings
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Red Wings made it official on
Thursday and agreed to a one-year contract with veteran center Mike Modano.
Financial terms were not disclosed, per team policy, but the Detroit Free
Press p
<< CFL West: Eskimos fire GM; Rambo sparks Calgary offense
Toronto, Canada (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - It didn't matter that Edmonton won its first
game of the season, prevailing in a tight 28-25 affair over west rival BC
Lions. The triumph wasn't enough for a team that was off to its worst start
since 1965, an
<< 2010 FBS Positional Analysis: Defensive Backs
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - They are the last line of defense. Their
job is to keep the ball in front of them and never allow a playmaker to get
behind them. They can control the ebb and flow of the game by limiting the
playing field fo
<< Golf Tidbits: VISION54 is closer than ever
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - In the year of the 59, the question begs
to be asked, how low can you go?
World-renowned swing coaches Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, who created an
instructional and coaching program called VISION54 sever
Englehart becomes Indiana State OC >>
Terre Haute, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Indiana State's struggling football program
named alumnus Steve Englehart as its new offensive coordinator on Wednesday,
head coach Trent Miles said.
Englehart replaced Troy Walters, who recently left to be
MLB suspends Indians' Smith for bench-clearing incident >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Major League Baseball handed down a two-game
suspension to Indians third base coach Steve Smith for his inappropriate and
aggressive actions during a bench-clearing incident during Tuesday's game
against
In the FCS Huddle: Devlin unflappable like an old Joe >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - When people ask, Delaware football coach
K.C. Keeler prefers not to compare his current quarterback, Pat Devlin, to his
former standout at the position, Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens.
Ask Keeler if De
Haynesworth to have MRI on knee >>
Ashburn, VA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert
Haynesworth is expected to undergo an MRI on his ailing knee.
Redskins coach Mike Shanahan indicated Haynesworth will have the test on
Thursday to determin
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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