09/22/2008 - Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Wizards announced on Monday they have picked up the one-year option on the contract of head coach Eddie Jordan, keeping the coach on the sidelines through the 2009-10 season.
Per team policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.
In five seasons with the team, Jordan has led the Wizards to a 196-214 record, including appearances in the past four straight postseasons, one of only two Eastern Conference teams (Detroit) to accomplish the feat.
Washington withstood numerous injuries last season to finish with a 43-39 record before bowing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs.
The Washington, DC native is the third longest tenured coach in the NBA behind Utah's Jerry Sloan and San Antonio's Gregg Popovich.
Jordan was also dubbed the head coach of the 2007 Eastern Conference All-Star team after Washington compiled the best record in the East prior to the All- Star break.
<< Medalist advances, defending champ out at Senior Amateur
Fort Worth, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stroke-play medalist Paul Simson rallied
from a 1-down deficit Monday to earn a 3 & 2 win at the USGA Senior Amateur
Championship at Shady Oaks Country Club.
Simson, the 2008 British Senior Open A
<< Wizards sign three forwards
Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Wizards signed free agent
forwards DerMarr Johnson, Linton Johnson and Taj McCullough on Monday.
Per club policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
DerMarr Johnson, the sixth over
<< Saints' Shockey out three-to-six weeks with sports hernia
New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New Orleans tight end Jeremy Shockey will
undergo sports hernia surgery this week, keeping the Saints' new offensive
target out three-to-six weeks.
Shockey, acquired in the offseason from the New Y
<< NASCAR's new substance-abuse policy long overdue
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - NASCAR unveiled its upgraded substance-
abuse policy over the weekend, to include random testing beginning in 2009.
All drivers, crew members and even race officials will be tested prior to the
start of next
Rams RB Pittman out with cracked fibula >>
St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis Rams running back Antonio Pittman
will be sidelined the next 4-to-6 weeks due to a cracked fibula.
Rams coach Scott Linehan said Pittman suffered the injury on a special teams
play early in a 37
Donovan earns 4th POW of season after scoring 3 goals, assist >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan
was voted Major League Soccer's Player of the Week for Week 26, it was
announced on Monday.
Donovan recorded a hat trick and an assist on Saturday, leadi
St. Louis >>
Activated outfielder Joe Mather from the 15-day disabled list.
Kings' Abdur-Rahim calls it quits >>
Sacramento, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shareef Abdur-Rahim, a 12-year NBA veteran
most currently with the Sacramento Kings, announced his retirement on Monday
due to a reoccurring knee injury.
Abdur-Rahim was well known in the Western Confe
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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.
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