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02/04/2012 - Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brad Boyes netted the game-winning goal in the first round of the shootout to cap a comeback as the Buffalo Sabres rallied to top the New York Islanders, 4-3, at Nassau Coliseum.
Boyes picked up the puck and moved in slowly on Isles netminder Al Montoya. Boyes waited for Montoya to make a move and fired a quick wrist shot past the glove side of the Montoya. Jason Pominville sealed the victory with a goal in the second round of the shootout, while Ryan Miller stopped attempts from P.A. Parenteau and Frans Nielsen.
Boyes added an assist, while Nathan Gerbe, Derek Roy and Paul Gaustad scored in regulation for the Sabres, who bounced back from 1-0 defeat to the New York Rangers on Wednesday. Miller made 35 saves.
Nielsen finished with two goals and an assist and Josh Bailey also scored for the Islanders, who had their brief two-game winning streak halted. Montoya stopped 34-of-37 shots.
<< Griffin, Clippers roll past Wizards
Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - It was another highlight-reel night for
Blake Griffin, and the Los Angeles Clippers rolled to a 107-81 victory over
the Washington Wizards.
Griffin, who registered 21 points, 11 rebounds and eight
<< St. Louis leads Tampa over Florida
Tampa, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Martin St. Louis recorded his fifth career hat
trick in his 900th NHL game, as the Tampa Bay Lightning dominated the Florida
Panthers, 6-3.
Vincent Lecavalier added a goal and three assists for the Lightning,
<< Murray State remains perfect in win over Skyhawks
Martin, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Latreze Mushatt had 11 points and nine rebounds,
as 10th-ranked Murray State remained perfect with a hard-fought 65-58 win over
Tennessee-Martin.
Jewuan Long and Isaiah Canaan also scored 11 points for the Racer
<< Magic take down Pacers in feisty affair
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dwight Howard scored 27 points and the
Orlando Magic pushed their win streak to three games Saturday with an 85-81
victory over the Indiana Pacers.
The Pacers never led after 7-6, but they had s
Korpikoski, Coyotes top Sharks >>
Glendale, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lauri Korpikoski netted a pair of goals,
including the game-winner in the third period as the Phoenix Coyotes skated
past the San Jose Sharks, 5-3, on Saturday.
Radim Vrbata finished with a goal and
Monroe helps Pistons beat skidding Hornets >>
Auburn Hills, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Greg Monroe led the way with 24 points and
16 rebounds as the Pistons defeated the Hornets, 89-87, at the Palace of
Auburn Hills on Saturday.
Detroit had five scorers in double figures including
No.1 Baylor thumps Kansas State >>
Manhattan, KS (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brittney Griner netted a game-high 29 points
and pulled down nine rebounds as top-ranked Baylor took care of business with
a convincing 70-41 win over Kansas State on Saturday.
Destiny Williams finished with
Cavs hold off Mavs >>
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kyrie Irving scored 20 points, including a
tough reverse layup in traffic with 15.8 seconds remaining, as the Cleveland
Cavaliers held on to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, 91-88.
After Irving's layup made
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.
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.
Underdog bettors love the Super Bowl and, history suggests, the underdogs love them back. And the big dogs bite harder.
Even so, there is a warning in store for Super Bowl gamblers who must love dogs: The Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl betting lines might not be enough of a Cinderella to make it worth your while.
Although the Cardinals were widely panned as one of the worst division winners and least playoff-worthy teams in recent memory, their trip to Super Bowl XLIII Jan. 31 in Tampa against the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl betting lines comes with a little more respect from the oddsmakers than you might imagine. They are a 7-point underdog at most sports books.
If you count yourself among those who covet the big dog in the big game, this isn’t exactly great news. You should have been hoping for more points. This is because the facts show that the bigger the dog, the better the bet in the Super Bowl.
Case in point: Over the past 13 seasons, double-figure underdogs in the Super Bowl are 4-0-1 ATS and have won the past three outright. In fact, the last double-digit chalk to do the deed for bettors was the 1995 San Francisco 49ers, who managed to beat the astounding 19-point spot afforded backers of the San Diego Chargers in the 49-26 romp in Super Bowl XXIX.
By contrast, 7-point favorites are 2-1-1 ATS in the same span, the last such contest resulting a cover grinded out by the Colts in their 29-17 win over the Bears two seasons ago in Super Bowl XLI.
In 2004, the Patriots failed to cover the number in their 32-29 triumph over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl props while the Rams and Titans gave everyone a refund in 2000 after the Rams posted a 23-16 win as a seven-point favorite.
So while Arizona’s run has included impressive upsets as a 10-point road underdog to the Carolina Panthers and Sunday’s 32-25 win in the NFC championship game to the 4-point favored Philadelphia Eagles, their long-shot story lacks a bit of the David vs. Goliath storyline of past Super Bowl underdogs.
While the seven-point spread represents a significant gap in the perception of strength between the two teams, it is far from monumental. For example, last season the Giants were the wild-card afterthought turned road-warrior buzzsaw, with stunning wins over the Buccaneers, Cowboys and Packers to earn their place in the Super Bowl.
There, they played spoiler to New England’s bid to become the first 19-0 team in NFL history and cemented their place in sports betting lore with a 17-14 win as a 12.5-point underdog.
In other words, the Cardinals appear to have their work cut out for them as a mid-range underdog. But in homage to the spread beaters who have come before them, here is a brief look back at recent colossal upsets in the Super Bowl:
SB XLII -- 2008 -- New York Giants 17, New England Patriots 14 (Giants +12.5) – Eli Manning’s 13-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress in the final minute clinched the historic upset for the Giants, who used a masterful defensive plan to slow down Tom Brady and the previously undefeated New England Patriots.
XXXVI -- 2002 -- Patriots 20, Rams 17 (Patriots +14) – This was the coming out party for the aforementioned Brady, who went from obscure sixth-round draft pick to Super Bowl hero in one fell swoop. He led the game-winning drive in the final minute – eschewing analyst John Madden’s advice to take a knee and play for overtime – leading to Adam Vinatieri’s memorable 48-yard field goal that split the uprights as time expired.
XXXII 1998 Broncos 31, Packers 24 (Denver +12) – The first of John Elway’s two consecutive Super Bowl titles to put an end to his Hall of Fame career was an upset for the ages. The Broncos used the determination of Elway and a 157-yard, three-touchdown performance from Terrell Davis to turn back Brett Favre and the heavily favored Packers.
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