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Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fresh off their first playoff appearance in 12 years, the Detroit Lions re-signed all three coordinators on Thursday. Scott Linehan (offense), Gunther Cunningham (defense) and Danny Crossman (special teams) all were re-signed following a 10-6 season that saw the team finish with a loss to New Orleans last Saturday in Detroit's first playoff appearance since 1999.

 

The defense allowed 367.6 yards per game, 23rd in the NFL, and finished in the same spot in points per game with 24.2 points.

 

Detroit kicker Jason Hanson booted 24 field goals on the season and also set an NFL record early in the season with the most games ever played by one player for the same organization.

 

Long snapper Lonie Paxton has also been ruled out for personal reasons.

 

St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jeff Fisher will be the next head coach of the St. Louis Rams. According to a report from the Post-Dispatch, Fisher decided to coach the Rams rather than the Miami Dolphins. Both teams sought the former long-time Titans head coach, who returns from a year away from the game. He and Tennessee parted ways following the 2010 season, ending his 17-year run with the team.

 

With the Rams, Fisher replaces Steve Spagnuolo, who was fired along with general manager Billy Devaney the day after St. Louis completed a dismal 2-14 season.

 

He first took over the team on an interim basis in November 1994, when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers, and was given the job full-time starting in 1995.

 

Fisher didn't part ways with the Titans until January 27 of last year, after other head coaching vacancies had been filled.

 

(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - By this point, it's really no secret. All the headlines, sports-talk blathering and desperate Rick Perry co-opts over the past few weeks have merely confirmed the obvious.

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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

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.