Rams finish cuts; Adeyanju, Carpenter, Null all chopped
Football Betting Lines
09/04/2010 - St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The St. Louis Rams pared their roster to the 53-player maximum on Saturday, releasing 16 players to complete their "cut- down day" moves.
Excised were defensive end Victor Adeyanju, wide receiver Danario Alexander, guard Roger Allen III, linebacker Devin Bishop, cornerback Quincy Butler, linebacker Bobby Carpenter, linebacker Cardia Jackson, cornerback Marquis Johnson, offensive lineman Ryan McKee, wide receiver Brandon McRae, offensive lineman Drew Miller, fullback Dennis Morris, quarterback Keith Null, running back Chris Ogbonnaya, defensive lineman Ernest Reid and cornerback Antoine Thompson.
Notables among that group include Adeyanju, who had appeared in 53 games as a Ram since being drafted in 2006; Butler, a seven-game starter for St. Louis last season; Carpenter, who was acquired in the trade that sent tackle Alex Barron to Dallas earlier this year and Null, who started four games as a rookie out of West Texas A&M a year ago.
Also on Saturday, St. Louis placed safety Kevin Payne and offensive lineman Eric Young on season-ending injured reserve due to knee injuries.
On Friday, the team released safety Brett Johnson, tight end Darcy Johnson, wide receiver Jordan Kent and center Tim Mattran.
The Rams begin the 2010 regular season on Sunday, when they play host to the NFC West rival Arizona Cardinals.
Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Andy Dalton threw a touchdown and ran two in, including the go-ahead score in the third quarter, as sixth-ranked TCU downed No. 24 Oregon State, 30-21. Dalton went 17-for-27 with 175 yards and two interce
<< Cummings brace leads Rapids past Goats
Commerce City, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Colorado Rapids' striker Omar Cummings
scored two goals and helped set up another to lead his team to a 3-0 win over
Chivas USA at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday night.
After the two teams b
<< Lee's eighth-inning HR pushes Astros past D'Backs
Phoenix, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carlos Lee hit the game-winning three-run home
run in the eighth inning and drove in four to lead Houston to a 6-5 come-from-
behind win over Arizona in the middle meeting of a three-game series.
Lee finished
<< Lions Release CB Bly, 19 more
Allen Park, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cornerback Dre' Bly was among the players
released by the Detroit Lions on Saturday, as the team pared its roster to the
53-player NFL maximum.
Bly, an 11-year NFL veteran who returned to Detroit in the offs
<< Irvin, Tyler among Panthers' final cuts
Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Defensive linemen Corvey Irvin and Tank Tyler
were among the notables released by the Carolina Panthers on Saturday, as the
team reduced its roster to the 53-player maximum
Irvin, a third-round draft choice o
Sandy, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Real Salt Lake earned a 1-0 victory over Red Bull New York on Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium to equal the longest home undefeated streak in Major League Soccer history at 22 games. Fabian Espindola scor
No. 21 LSU escapes late charge from Yates, No. 18 UNC >>
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - T.J. Yates led 18th-ranked North Carolina to a
pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns and nearly a third on the final play of the
game, but it wasn't enough for the short-handed Tar Heels, as No. 21 LSU
barely
Talbot gets elusive win as Indians edge Mariners >>
Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mitch Talbot pitched into the seventh inning
and won for the first time since late June, as the Indians held off the
Seattle Mariners, 4-2, in the third installment of a four-game series.
Talbot (9-1
Giants rally past Dodgers, close gap with Padres >>
Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Juan Uribe hit a two-run homer in the ninth
inning to cap San Francisco's comeback, as the Giants edged the Los Angeles
Dodgers, 5-4, in the middle test of a three-game series.
The Giants trailed by four
Runnin' over Rebels: Badgers win on strong ground game >>
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - John Clay ran for 123 yards and two
touchdowns, as 12th-ranked Wisconsin used its ground game to take a resounding
41-21 win over UNLV in the teams' season-opener.
Clay picked up right where he lef
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.