Wozniacki reaches Indian Wells semis
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03/18/2010 - Indian Wells, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Caroline Wozniacki gutted out a three-set victory late Wednesday to reach the semifinals at the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Open.
The native of Denmark, who was last year's U.S. Open runner-up and entered play as the second seed, downed 18th-seeded Zheng Jie of China, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, in a match which early on seemed to look like a rout but wound up lasting two hours, 18 minutes.
Her semifinal opponent will be Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, who upended Russian star Elena Dementieva earlier in the day.
The fifth-seeded Radwanska dismissed the fourth-seeded Dementieva 6-4, 6-3 on the hardcourts, pulling off the upset in one hour, 31 minutes with the help of four service breaks on Day 8.
The two-time major finalist and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Dementieva was the Indian Wells runner-up in 2006.
Two other quarterfinal bouts will be staged here on Thursday, when sixth- seeded former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic will meet 23rd-seeded Russian Alisa Kleybanova and eighth-seeded Aussie Samantha Stosur will face 28th-seeded Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.
The 2010 Indian Wells winner will earn $700,000.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL 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.