Americans split with Australia in World Team event

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05/16/2010 - Dusseldorf, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sam Querrey beat Peter Luczak to give the United States an early lead over Australia on the first day of play at the ATP World Team Championship, but Lleyton Hewitt topped John Isner to give the Aussies a split of the opening round-robin matchup.

Querrey rallied for a 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 triumph to give the U.S. the first point of the day, but Hewitt posted a 6-2, 6-4 triumph for Australia in Red Group action.

The day's other matchup from the Red Group saw Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic come away with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver.

In Blue Group action, France and Germany split two matches. Jeremy Chardy notched a 6-2, 6-4 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber to give France the first point, but Andreas Beck claimed a 7-6 (7-1), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 victory over Paul- Henri Mathieu to even it for the host nation.

Germany lost to Serbia in last year's final of the French Open tuneup.

Filip Krajinovic played the first match for Serbia on Sunday in the Blue Group and dropped a 6-1, 6-4 decision to Argentina's Horacio Zeballos.

Each group features four teams in a round-robin format with the winners of each group meeting for the title.

The French Open will get underway next Sunday in Paris.

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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.