Hong Leads Place Against Pga

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It's not exactly the end of Woods' season as he announced he will play twice overseas at the HSBC Champions Tournament and Dunlop Phoenix Tournament, then the PGA Grand Slam of Golf and Target World Challenge before the end of the year.

 

Masters champion Phil Mickelson announced after last month's Ryder Cup that he was done for the season from that point. Stephen Ames will be eligible for the event, but an injury is expected to keep him out of action.

 

Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Gary Christian shot a two-under 69 and Tim O'Neal fired a five-under 66 Friday as the duo shares the second-round lead of the Miccosukee Championship. The pair is knotted at nine-under-par 133 and is one ahead at Miccosukee Golf and Country Club. Chad Collins carded a four-under 67 to join Boo Weekley, who shot a two-under 69 on Friday, in third place at minus-eight. Bryce Molder (70), Tripp Isenhour (65) and Cameron Beckman (67) share fifth place at seven-under-par 135.

 

He birdied the par-five fourth, then bogeyed back-to-back holes with a three- putt at the fifth and a poor club selection at No. 6. Christian got back to even-par for the round with a birdie at the ninth.

 

Christian birdied the 13th and 14th holes, but dropped his fourth shot of the round at 15 when he hit his approach in the right rough. He birdied the 16th to post nine-under par.

 

O'Neal is 53rd on the money list and in no danger of losing his place two weeks from now at the Houstonian Golf and Country Club.

 

Cliff Kresge (70), David Hearn (70), Jason Dufner (68), Matt Kuchar (69) and Kyle Thompson are knotted in eighth place at six-under-par 136.

 

The 36-hole cut came at one-under-par 141 with 63 players making it to the weekend.

 

First-round leader Joo Mi Kim faltered to a one-over 73. She was joined in second place by Karine Icher (71) and amateur Mi Jung Hur (70) at five-under- par 139.

 

She birdied the 10th for the second straight round to keep moving up the leaderboard. Hong kicked in a three-foot birdie putt on the 14th, but gave that stroke right back with a three-putt bogey on 15.

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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.

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