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Heat open trip against SunsBasketball Betting Lines01/08/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Miami Heat kick off a grueling six-game, nine-day Western Conference road trip in the desert against the Phoenix Suns tonight. The Heat are coming off a tough 112-106 overtime loss to Eastern Conference power Boston in South Beach on Wednesday. Rajon Rondo tied the game with an alley-oop layup off an inbounds pass from Paul Pierce at the end of regulation in that one, helping Boston to get over the top. Rondo then notched six of his team-high 25 points in overtime, as the Celtics overcame a season-best 44 from Miami's Dwyane Wade. Wade went 15-of-34 from the field for the Heat, who also received 19 points and nine boards from Udonis Haslem. Jermaine O'Neal scored 14 in defeat, Miami's fourth in five games. "It really gets no tougher than this one," Wade said. "All you can do is bounce back from it." Wade stole the ball from Ray Allen at midcourt and cruised in for the go-ahead two-handed jam with 0.6 seconds remaining. Boston then called a timeout to set up a final play, and it worked to perfection, with Pierce lobbing the ball to Rondo for a layup to send the game into overtime tied at 101. Rondo later added a driving layup in the extra frame, but Wade's three-ball had Miami within 108-106 with 51.3 seconds to go. Rondo then essentially sealed the victory, bolting down the lane for a bucket with 34.3 seconds left. The Heat expect some help tonight from veteran point guard Rafer Alston, who was signed Thursday for the remainder of the season. This will be Alstons second stint with Miami after averaging 10.2 points and 4.5 assists during the 2003-04 season. Miami, which has won two straight as the visitor and is 6-6 on the road this season, will also face the LA Clippers, Utah, Golden State, Houston and Oklahoma City on its trek. The Suns, meanwhile, have been one of the NBA's best on their homecourt this year and improved to 14-3 as the host by taking the opener of a three-game residency, a 118-110 decision over Houston. Steve Nash led the way with 26 points and 12 assists in that one as Phoenix rallied in the fourth to down the Rockets. Amare Stoudemire added 25 points and 11 rebounds, Channing Frye donated 22 points and nine rebounds and Jason Richardson notched 20 points and six boards. Phoenix shot 54.4 percent on the game and made 13-of-25 three-point shots in its second consecutive win. "That's probably about a good of win as we're going to have against a team of that quality," said Suns head coach Alvin Gentry. "They are just blue-collared all the way, and then when you throw in a guy like Aaron Brooks, they just become real difficult to guard." The Suns snapped a three-game skid to the Heat with a 104-96 win in Miami on Nov. 3 and will be aiming to sweep the home-and-home season set for the first time since the 2006-07 season tonight.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALKNFL 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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