07/08/2008 - New York, NY (Basketball Betting) - The New York Knicks signed forward Danilo Gallinari on Tuesday. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Gallinari was selected by New York with the sixth overall selection in the 2008 NBA Draft and is expected to play for the team's 2008 NBA Summer League team in Las Vegas next week.
The 6-foot-10, 225-pound Gallinari averaged a team-high 17.5 points and 5.7 rebounds last season for Armani Jeans Milano of the Italian A-1 League, while also tallying 14.9 points and 4.2 rebounds in 2008 Euroleague play en route to being named Euroleague Rising Star for the 2007-08 season.
<< Report: Magic ink G Pietrus
Orlando, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Orlando Magic have reportedly reached a
verbal agreement with former Golden State Warriors guard Mickael Pietrus on a
multi-year contract, general manager Otis Smith confirmed to the Florida Today
newspap
<< Rockies bring up Nix
Milwaukee, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Colorado Rockies purchased the
contract of infielder Jayson Nix on Tuesday.
Nix started at second base this season for the Rockies on opening day, but
only batted .111 with two RBI in 17 ga
<< Blues sign Bernier to offer sheet
St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The St. Louis Blues signed free agent
forward Steve Bernier Tuesday to an offer sheet worth $2.5 million for next
season.
Bernier spent last season with the Sharks and Sabres, tallying 16 goals and
<< Cubs acquire Harden from A's
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Cubs have acquired pitchers Rich
Harden and Chad Gaudin from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for pitcher Sean
Gallagher, outfielder Matt Murton, infielder Eric Patterson and catcher Josh
Donalds
Padres' Tomko to DL, among other moves for San Diego >>
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Diego Padres placed pitcher
Brett Tomko on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a strained right elbow.
The move is retroactive to July 1.
The journeyman right-hander has made two relief
Marlins C Treanor placed on DL >>
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Florida Marlins placed catcher Matt
Treanor on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a left hip strain.
In 54 games behind the plate this season, Treanor has recorded a .240 batting
average to go
Mets send Church to DL again >>
Flushing, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Mets sent outfielder Ryan Church
to the 15-day disabled list again due to post-concussion symptoms.
Church has been suffering the effects of a concussion since May 20 when he
took a knee to
Brand reportedly heading to Sixers >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Philadelphia 76ers have reportedly
reached a contract agreement with free-agent center Elton Brand, who has spent
the last seven years of his career with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Los Angeles
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.
MySportsbook.com Favors Fighting Irish to win College Football betting odds
According to odds makers at MySportsbook.com, on January 8, the Fighting Irish faithful may be toasting their 14th national title in Arizona – Notre Dame’s first national championship in close to 20 years.
Although MySportsbook.com has listed Notre Dame as the 5-1 favorite to win thecollege football College Football betting, fans in Columbus do not need to cancel their tickets to Glendale just yet. The Ohio State Buckeyes, listed right behind the Irish at 7-1, are also heavy favorites to win college football’s most coveted prize, while West Virginia, USC and the 2007 National Champion Texas Longhorns - all listed at 8-1 – are strong contenders as well.
MySportsbook.com has also posted gambling odds on the conference championships for the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. In the ACC – it could be anyone’s title, particularly for the two schools from the Sunshine State. Florida State and Miami, both listed at 2-1, are favored to win the ACC Championship Game odds, with the ‘Noles hoping to finish in the nation’s top 10 for the first time in five years, and the ‘Canes looking to avenge their 10-7 loss against FSU in last year’s ACC Championship betting.
Moving west to the Big 12, MySportsbook.com has betting lines listing Texas as 7-5 favorites to repeat as conference champions, even though the Longhorns lost their national championship-winning quarterback Vince Young to the NFL. In the south, the Auburn Tigers – led by Heisman-hopeful senior running back Kenny Irons – have been given the best odds to win the SEC Championship odds at 5-2.
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