Clippers conclude homestand with T'wolves

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01/27/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The streaking Los Angeles Clippers wrap up a five-game homestand when they host the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight at the Staples Center.

This is the third and final meeting of the campaign between the squads. The teams split a pair of contests at the Target Center in the first two meetings.

Minnesota has lost three straight after winning its last four at the Clippers.

Los Angeles enters tonight's contest on a four-game winning streak. Cuttino Mobley drained a three with six-tenths of a second left to lift the Clippers to a 102-101 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Thursday at the Staples Center.

Elton Brand and Corey Maggette both netted 18 in the win for LA, while Mobley finished with 17 points. Brand grabbed eight rebounds and Maggette pulled down six boards in the victory.

The Clippers are 16-7 as the host this season. They will visit Ray Allen and the Seattle SuperSonics on Sunday at KeyArena.

Minnesota, meanwhile, has lost six in a row and will close out a five-game road trip this evening in Los Angeles.

On Friday the Timberwolves suffered a 102-100 loss to the Seattle SuperSonics at Key Arena, and fell to 0-4 on the swing. Craig Smith scored a team and career-high 26 points with eight rebounds off the bench for the Timberwolves, who are 8-14 away from Target Arena this season.

Kevin Garnett posted 17 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, and Ricky Davis and Mark Blount both added 13 points. Randy Foye had 12 points off the bench.

The T'wolves are eight games off the lead in the Northwest standings.

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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.

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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.

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MySportsbook.com Releases World Series Championship Lines

New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox early favorites to win 2008 World Series
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