Cavani extends his stay with Napoli

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05/20/2011 - Naples, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Napoli striker Edinson Cavani has signed an extension to his contract, tying him to the club until the summer of 2016.

Cavani joined Napoli from Palermo last summer, and he has gone on to score 26 goals and help Napoli secure third place in the Serie A table in his debut season.

The 24-year-old also tallied seven more goals in the Europa League, but he will take no part in the team's final match of the season on Sunday at Juventus because of a suspension.

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<< Monmouth Park racing season till November
Oceanport, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The 2011 thoroughbred racing season at Monmouth Park will run until Sunday, November 6. There will be a total of 71 days of live racing at the Jersey Shore facility. Monmouth Park, which will be l

<< Indians' Hafner lands on DL with strained oblique
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Indians placed designated hitter Travis Hafner on the 15-day disabled list Friday with a strained right oblique. The move is retroactive to May 18. Hafner is batting .345 with five hom

<< Terim returns for third stint at Galatasaray
Istanbul, Turkey (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Galatasaray named former Turkey manager Fatih Terim its new coach Friday, marking the 57-year-old's third stint at the helm of the Turkish club. Terim previously coached Galatasaray from 1996-2000 and 2

<< Ambrosini inks new Milan deal
Milan, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Massimo Ambrosini became the latest player to commit his future to AC Milan on Friday, signing a new deal that will keep him at the San Siro until June 2012. Ambrosini has played the past 16 seasons with

<< Thornton takes lead in Portugal
Madeira, Portugal (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ireland's Simon Thornton fired a six- under 66 Friday to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Madeira Islands Open. Thornton finished 36 holes at seven-under-par 137. This is the f

Crew try to break through Timbers' stronghold >>
Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Columbus Crew travel to take on the expansion Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer action at Jeld-Wen Field on Saturday night. The Crew will be aiming to rebound after falling at the San Jose

A's put pitchers McCarthy, Ross on DL >>
Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oakland Athletics placed pitchers Brandon McCarthy and Tyson Ross on the 15-day disabled list Friday. The team also optioned reliever Trystan Magnuson to Triple-A Sacramento and recalled pitchers Joe

Royal Delta rules in Black-Eyed Susan Stakes >>
Baltimore, MD (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Post-time favorite Royal Delta took the lead at the head of the stretch and cruised to victory in Friday's $250,000 Black- Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. The 1 1/8-mile race for three-year- old fil

Top seeds advance at Sybase >>
Gladstone, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Seven of the remaining eight top 10 seeds won their second-round matches on Friday to advance to the third round of the Sybase Match Play Championship. Na Yeon Choi, the No. 1 overall seed, needed 20 holes to

Owen erases Hampshire's advantage at BMW Charity Pro-Am >>
Greer, SC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Greg Owen shot an eight-under 63 on Friday to tie Travis Hampshire atop the leaderboard after 36 holes of the BMW Charity Pro- Am. Both Owen and Hampshire lead at 15-under 128 after playing at Thornblade Club

MySportsbook.com and Kentucky Derby Offer Bonuses
The 2008 Kentucky Derby has announced a $1-million bonus for this weekend’s 134th ‘Run for the Roses’ and MySportsbook.com is doing the same.

Well, not quite $1 million, but MySportsbook.com is offering a 75% rebate for Kentucky Derby lines. Check out the exclusive horse racing bonus for all the details.

According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800).

Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund.

''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.''
    
Meanwhile, the Derby favorite – Curlin – is going against the odds this year. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.

Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.

''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.''

Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year.
   
Asmussen dismissed suggestions that Curlin's lack of racing experience could keep him from the winner's circle.

”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?''
   
The Kentucky Derby is at 4:04 p.m., ET Saturday.

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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.