Argentina leads Sweden 2-1 in Davis Cup action
Tennis Betting Lines
03/06/2010 -
Stockholm, Sweden (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A doubles tandem of David Nalbandian and
Horacio Zeballos notched a big win on Saturday, as visiting Argentina grabbed
a 2-1 lead over Sweden in their first-round best-of-five Davis Cup battle.
Nalbandian and Zeballos doused a Swedish duo of Robin Soderling and Robert
Lindstedt 6-2, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-5) at Kungliga Tennis Hall.
The winner will be decided in Sunday's reverse singles here, when Soderling
meets Leonardo Mayer and Swede Joachim Johansson takes on Eduardo Schwank.
In Friday's opening singles here, the French Open runner-up Soderling handled
Schwank 6-1, 7-6 (7-0), 7-5 before Mayer pulled Argentina even with a
5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over the 6-foot-6 slugger Johansson. Mayer was
initially scheduled to play doubles on Saturday, but was replaced in the
lineup by the former Wimbledon runner-up Nalbandian.
Former Swedish star Thomas Enqvist is leading the home team this week,
while Tito Vazquez captains Argentina on the indoor hardcourt here.
Sweden owns seven Davis Cup titles, while Argentina has never hoisted the
coveted chalice.
The winner here will face either Russia or India in the quarterfinals in July.
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Logrono, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two-time reigning champion Spain got
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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.
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