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Federer opens defense of French crown with dominant win

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05/24/2010 - Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Roger Federer began defense of his French Open title with a straight-set win on the second day of play at Roland Garros.

The top-seeded Federer cruised to a 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 first-round victory over Australia's Peter Luczak. The Swiss superstar finally won at Roland Garros last spring after three straight losses in the final and completed the career Grand Slam.

Federer is gunning for a 17th career Grand Slam title and second of 2010. He won the Australian Open earlier this year.

Other early winners on Monday included Americans John Isner and Taylor Dent, 15th-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic and 20th-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.

Isner, seeded 17th, topped Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, while Dent also moved on with a straight-set win over Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti. Berdych won a first-set tiebreaker and dropped just four games afterward against Chilean qualifier Jorge Aguilar and Wawrinka lost just seven games in a rout of Czech Jan Hajek.

Also scheduled for play Monday are third-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic and Scotland's Andy Murray. The fourth-seeded Murray has a difficult opener against former top-10 player Richard Gasquet of France. Gasquet is coming off a title on Saturday in Nice.


<< Cavs can Mike Brown
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Cavaliers have fired head coach Mike Brown on the heels of a second straight disappointing playoff run. Armed with two-time MVP LeBron James, the Cavaliers had been expected to contend fo

<< Wozniacki, Dementieva among Day 2 winners at French Open
Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki and Russia's Elena Dementieva were among the early winners Monday at the French Open. The third-seeded Wozniacki cruised to a 6-0, 6-3 win over Russia's All Kudryavtse

<< Cavs fire Mike Brown
CLEVELAND (AP) -The Cleveland Cavaliers have fired coach Mike Brown after five seasons for failing to win an NBA title with LeBron James.Brown's dismissals has been expected since the Cavs were eliminated by the Boston Celtics in the second round of

<< Report: Cavs fire Brown as coach
NEW YORK (AP) -ESPN is reporting that the Cleveland Cavaliers have fired coach Mike Brown.In a story posted on ESPN's website citing a source, the Cavaliers had until midnight on Sunday to fire Brown or pay him his full $4.5 million salary for next

<< Cavs reportedly dismiss Brown
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Cavaliers have reportedly fired head coach Mike Brown. Several media sources reported the firing early Monday morning. The move comes less than two weeks after the Cavs lost a decisive Game

Celtics shoot for sweep of Magic in Beantown >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Boston Celtics will try to complete a sweep of the Eastern Conference finals tonight when they host the reeling Orlando Magic in Game 4 from TD Garden. It's been a stunning collapse for the reigning Eastern kings. The

Saunders, Angels aim to hold Blue Jays' bats in check >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Joe Saunders was able to hold baseball's most powerful offense this season in check when he faced the Toronto Blue Jays last month. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher will attempt to duplicate that performance, as well

Danks tries to end skid as White Sox visit Tribe >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chicago White Sox starter John Danks has the second-best earned run average in the American League, but hasn't won in almost a month. He will try to stop a personal three-game losing streak tonight, when his team plays the fi

Flyers aim for Cup Finals berth in Game 5 vs. Habs >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Philadelphia Flyers will try to secure a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals when they host the Montreal Canadiens in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals tonight at Wachovia Center . After posting a 3-0 victory in Game

Boston goes with Buchholz in road test with Rays >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Luck wasn't on Clay Buchholz's side the last time the Boston hurler faced Tampa Bay. That might need to change this evening if the Red Sox are to slow down the red-hot Rays. Buchholz will try to remain undefeated

FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

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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