01/29/2007 - Kennett Square, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was reportedly euthanized Monday morning after the latest surgical procedure was unable to help the colt fully recover from catastrophic injuries suffered during last May's Preakness Stakes.
The University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, Barbaro's home for the past eight months, would not confirm the report from numerous media outlets, including TVG and the Thoroughbred Times, saying only the matter would be addressed at a 4 p.m. (et) news conference.
Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby last May 6, then suffered a career-ending injury to his right hind leg during the early stages of the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course two weeks later.
The colt underwent a lengthy operation hours after the breakdown and the ensuing recovery process had its share of ups and downs with multiple surgical procedures. Saturday's operation was performed after an abscess developed in the right hind leg.
Chief of Surgery Dr. Dean Richardson said doctors first tried to place Barbaro's right hind foot in a cast and then a brace, but could not keep him stable or comfortable. Surgery then became necessary.
Two steel pins were placed through Barbaro's right hind cannon bone and connected to an external foot plate to alleviate weight bearing from the foot.
Richardson said that Saturday's operation was risky and marked a "significant setback" for Barbaro, who eventually lived for eight months after the initial procedure. Most horses are usually put down immediately after suffering the type of injuries he incurred.
Barbaro was owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who, along with Richardson, made the decision to humanely destroy the four-year-old.
Before his tragic breakdown at the Preakness, Barbaro had won each of his six lifetime starts, including a thrilling 6 1/2-length victory at the Run for the Roses, and earned more than $2.3 million in prize money.
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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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