Dixieland Band brings back memories

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12/02/2008 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lane's End Farm announced on Tuesday that top stallion Dixieland Band has been pensioned and will no longer serve as a stud. The 28-year-old is suffering from arthritis and can no longer cover broodmares.

Dixieland Band was one of the top three-year-olds of 1983. He was trained by Charlie Peoples for owner and breeder Mrs. Bayard Sharp. In 1983 Dixieland Band won the Pennsylvania Derby with Bill Passmore in the saddle. The next year he won the MassCap at Suffolk Downs.

Dixieland Band was one of three Maryland-based three-year-olds in 1983 who were among the best sophomores of that year. Along with Deputed Testamony and stablemate Parfaitement, Dixieland Band teamed with these two colts to form an exciting threesome that often made the trip between Maryland and the racetrack now known as Philadelphia Park.

In 1983 Deputed Testamony won the Preakness Stakes with Parfaitement finishing eighth. Leading to the Preakness, Deputy Testamony won the Keystone Stakes at the suburban Philadelphia track. The Belmont Stakes proved disappointing. Deputed Testamony was sixth and Dixieland Band was 14th of 15. However, Deputed Testamony bounced back with a win in the Haskell Invitational with Parfaitement third.

Not only was 1983 a high-watermark for racing at Philadelphia Park, then Keystone, but Maryland had the distinction of the being the birthplace of both Dixieland Band and Deputed Testamony.

Parfaitement was bred in Pennsylvania, years before Smarty Jones and Hard Spun. As a two-year-old he won the Pennsylvania Nursery the same stakes race to be won later by Smarty Jones and Hard Spun.

Another good three-year-old of 1983 was Two Davids, a sprinter based in Philadelphia. He defeated Deputed Testamony and Dixieland Band in an allowance race at Keystone.

The first few years of the 1980's provided some great thoroughbreds who made their way to the Bensalem track. Cheating Arthur was the resident king of Street Road. Temperance Hill, the defeated 1980 Pennsylvania Derby favorite, won the Belmont Stakes. The following year Summing pulled off the Penn Derby/Belmont Stakes double.

Who could forget the 1986 Derby. Broad Brush had the lead coming off the final turn, bolted to the outside, recovered to win the event.

These are some of my memories that the mention of Dixieland Band can arouse.

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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 won’t 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 doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s 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. Where’s 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, don’t 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 won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m 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.