Sedin wins Hart Trophy as league MVP
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06/23/2010 -
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Vancouver Canucks forward Henrik Sedin took
home hockey's top honor, the Hart Memorial Trophy, as the player judged to be
the most valuable to his team for the 2009-10 season.
Sedin, part of a tandem with twin brother Daniel, had a career-defining season
last year. The 29-year-old native of Ornskoldsvik, Sweden posted 29 goals, 83
assists and 112 points -- far and away career-bests -- in 82 regular-season
games.
He followed it up with three goals and 14 points in 12 playoff contests as the
Northwest Division-winning Canucks advanced to the Western Conference
semifinals.
"Thanks to all the fans in Vancouver, especially those who have supported us
over the last 10 years or so," Sedin said when accepting the award. "Thanks to
Markus Naslund, Mattias Ohlund and Sami Salo (veteran Swedish teammates) for
taking care of us for the first few years. There's no real way I can thank you
enough."
Sedin became just the second Swedish-raised player in league history to win
the NHL's most prestigious individual award. Peter Forsberg -- also a native
of Ornskoldsvik -- was the first when he won in 2003 for the Colorado Avalanche.
Alex Ovechkin, who had won the Ted Lindsay Award as the top NHL player this
season as voted by the players association, won the Hart in each of the last
two years.
Ovechkin, along with 2007 winner Sidney Crosby of Pittsburgh, were the other
two finalists for the honor, which has been given annually since 1924.
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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
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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
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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
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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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With only 21 home runs standing between him and Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds is indeed planning on coming back for more in 2007. At least, that's what his agent told the Los Angeles Times.
"Barry's going to play in 2007," Jeff Borris of Beverly Hills Sports Council told the Times on Tuesday. "I've had many discussions with Barry and he's going to play. My intentions are to see to it he's in a big-league uniform next season. Those are my marching orders."
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Bonds nearly hits HR 751, SF wins
4 and drove in
a pair of runs, and Barry Bonds nearly hit homer No. 751 as San Francisco beat
1, in the middle contest of three at AT&T Park.
6) allowed five hits and one run over 6 2/3 innings, fanning
eight and walking three.
game slide.
Bonds, who came within five homers of Hank Aaron's record on Friday, went
1 with three walks, an RBI double and scored twice. The double ...
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