09/03/2008 - Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Boston Bruins added veteran depth by inking forward Stephane Yelle to a contract. Per club policy, terms were not disclosed.
Yelle recorded three goals and 12 points in 74 games last season for the Calgary Flames.
The 34-year-old began his career with the Colorado Avalanche in 1995-96, winning a Stanley Cup in his rookie campaign while posting career-highs with 13 goals and 27 points. He was part of the franchise's second Cup victory in 2000-01. Following the 2001-02 season, Yelle was dealt to the Flames and spent the past five seasons there.
The former eighth-round pick of New Jersey in the 1992 draft, Yelle has compiled 85 goals and 239 points in 844 games over 12 NHL campaigns.
<< Rapids trade Gomez to Kansas City
Commerce City, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Colorado Rapids traded veteran
forward Herculez Gomez to Kansas City in exchange for the Wizards' natural
fourth round pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft, a first round pick in the 2009
MLS Su
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FCS season, but one of the most anticipated games of the year will be played
on Saturday eve
<< Texans sign S Wilson
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Houston Texans signed safety Eugene Wilson
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Wilson, who was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday, had spent
his entire five-year career with New England where he amassed 251 ta
<< Ross leads Fish past Bravos
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cody Ross' run-scoring single in the bottom of
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in the rubber match of a three-game set at Dolphin Stadium.
Hanley Ramirez homered
Nippert, Rangers clip Mariners >>
Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dustin Nippert was stellar on the hill and
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Seattle Mariners, 1-0, in the rubber match of a three-game set.
Nippert (2-4) surre
Hoops, Rapids battling to stay in playoff race >>
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Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Alex Cora scored the game-winning run in the
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Former PGA Tour winner Tommy Bolt dead at 92 >>
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - World Golf Hall of Fame member
Tommy Bolt died last week at the age of 92.
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and working for a decade in the constr
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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