Rangers put P Francisco on DL
Baseball Betting Lines
08/28/2010 - Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Texas Rangers placed closer Frank Francisco on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a strained right latissimus dorsi muscle.
The right-hander suffered the injury in Friday's game against Oakland. He has made 56 appearances this season, posting a 6-4 record with a 3.76 earned run average and 60 strikeouts in 52 2/3 innings.
To take his place on the roster, the club recalled southpaw Derek Holland from Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Holland is 2-2 with a 5.32 ERA in six games, five starts, in two different stints with the Rangers this year.
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shane Victorino provided a much-needed offensive spark with two hits and two RBI for the Phillies, who defeated the San Diego Padres, 3-1, in the second of three games at PETCO Park. Victorino, who
<< Browns DB Sorensen leaves game
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Browns defensive back Nick
Sorensen left Saturday's game with an undisclosed injury.
Sorensen was hurt in the second quarter when he was blocked by a pair of Lions
defenders on a kickoff.
<< Sevilla, Valencia win big in La Liga openers
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Abdoulay Konko and Joaquin Sanchez scored
twice for their respective clubs as the Spanish La Liga opened its 2010-11
campaign with three fixtures on Saturday.
Konko's two goals helped Sevilla top Leva
<< Blackburn, Fuentes shut out M's; Twins win third straight
Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Nick Blackburn hurled 8 2/3 scoreless
innings and Denard Span drove in the lone run as Minnesota clipped Seattle,
1-0, in the middle test of three from Safeco Field.
Blackburn (8-8) yielded two hi
<< Goldberg tied for lead at Canadian Tour Champ
St. Catharines, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Leading money winner Aaron Goldberg shot
a four-under 66 to join Kane Hanson in the lead Saturday after the third round
of the Canadian Tour Championship.
Hanson, the 36-hole leader, managed only an
Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - French Ligue 1 leaders Toulouse continued its perfect start to the 2010-11 season with a 2-0 win over Nancy on Saturday. Midfielders Etienne Capoue and Franck Tabanou scored second-half goals to lead Toulouse
Red Sox activate Okajima from DL >>
Tampa, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Boston Red Sox activated pitcher Hideki
Okajima from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday.
Okajima had been out since August 6 with a right hamstring strain. Before the
setback, he was 4-3 with a
49ers NT Franklin signs tender >>
Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Francisco 49ers announced Saturday nose
tackle Aubrayo Franklin has signed his franchise tender.
A number of sources have placed the tender's value at close to $7 million for
the eighth-year pro.
Fr
Ambrose edges Villeneuve for Nationwide pole at Montreal >>
Montreal, Canada (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Marcos Ambrose outran Canadian Jacques
Villeneuve in the closing minutes of qualifying to take the pole for Sunday's
NAPA Auto Parts 200 Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Ambrose,
OU's Wilson finding new ways to make a difference >>
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -Corey Wilson may not be able to run out and catch a pass for Oklahoma. Walking can still be a struggle for the receiver who injured his spinal cord in a car accident last year.That doesn't mean he can't make a difference for his
FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL Football Trash TalkTrash 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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