Blumenherst, Na lead through two rounds at U.S. Women's Amateur

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08/05/2008 - Eugene, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stephanie Na fired a one-under-par 71 to take a share of the lead during the second round of stroke play at the 108th U.S. Women's Amateur at Eugene Country Club.

The Australian Na recorded a round of 69 in Monday's first round for a two- round total of four-under 140. She shares the lead with NCAA Player of the Year and last year's runner up, Amanda Blumenherst. She stumbled to a two-over 74 on Tuesday after shooting 66 to go in front after the first round.

The players remaining after the cut will be sorted by seed for five rounds of match play beginning Wednesday.

Sitting alone in third place is Kira Meixner, who shot even-par in the first round and three-under 69 on Tuesday for a total of three-under 141. Whitney Neuhauser and Stephanie Sherlock are tied for fourth at two-under 142. Neuhauser shot par for the round, while Sherlock went one-over 73.

Azahara Munoz rocketed up the leaderboard by posting the day's lowest round of four-under 68. That puts her in a tie with six other players in sixth place at one-under 143.

Among those players is Westford, Massachusetts star Alison Walshe, who shot three-over 75. Walshe starred for the United States at the Curtis Cup and finished a respectable 31st at the United States Women's Open this June.

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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.