No surprise; Ochoa leads Canadian Open

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08/19/2007 - Edmonton, AB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - World No. 1 Lorena Ochoa fired a seven-under 64 on Saturday to move into sole possession of the lead after the third round of the Canadian Open.

She finished 54 holes at 14-under-par 199, which established a new tournament record. Ochoa toppled the old mark of 200, set by Meg Mallon in the 2004 tournament.

The tournament record is in serious jeopardy as well. Ochoa will only need to break 70 on Sunday to best Mallon's record as the Women's British Open champion seeks her fifth win of the year and 14th on the LPGA Tour.

Ochoa's 64 also matched Karrie Webb's round from Friday as the course record at Royal Mayfair Golf & Country Club.

Paula Creamer posted a five-under 66 and is tied for second place with first- round leader Laura Diaz, who managed a three-under 68 on Saturday. The pair is tied for second place at minus-10.

Ya-Ni Tseng carded a four-under 67 and is alone in fourth place at eight- under-par 205.

Despite rain falling throughout much of the third round, Ochoa flew up the leaderboard right away. She drained an eight-foot birdie putt at the second hole and hit her third to 10 feet at the par-five third. She sank that putt and made it three in a row with an 18-footer at the par-three fourth.

Ochoa parred her next two, but took the lead over Diaz with a 15-foot birdie putt at the seventh. She collected back-to-back birdies when her four-iron tee ball stopped six feet from the hole at eight.

Ochoa padded her lead with a birdie at the par-five 10th. She appeared to be in trouble at the 13th when her drive came to rest in an unraked bunker. Ochoa made par and rolled in a six-foot birdie putt at the 14th to move to 14-under par.

What is even scarier for Ochoa's closest pursuers is that the No. 1 player could have gone even lower. She almost holed a birdie chip at 15, then her 12- foot birdie effort at 16 lipped out of the cup.

Ochoa's second at 17 hopped over the green, but no matter. She saved par, closed with a par and has a four-stroke lead with one round to play.

Juli Inkster, a second-round co-leader, only managed a two-over 73 and is tied for fifth place with Kimberly Hall, who shot a one-over 72. The pair is knotted at six-under 207.

Shi Hyun Ahn, the other overnight co-leader, struggled to a three-over 74. She shares seventh place with Julieta Granada (66), Young Jo (68), Mallon (68), Jeong Jang (70) and Brittany Lang (70). The group came in at five-under-par 208.

Defending champion and reigning U.S. Women's Open winner Cristie Kerr shot an even-par 71 and is part of a group tied for 19th at minus-three.

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Chiefs' Treen Green out for Sunday's game

How long Trent Green will remain sidelined is unknown. Coach Herm Edwards said Monday he will miss a second straight start Sunday when the Chiefs host the San Francisco 49ers.

A two-time Pro Bowler, Green was going into a feet-first hook slide when he was knocked unconscious by a thunderous, head-snapping hit from Cincinnati's Robert Geathers.

Oddsmakers at online sportsbook MySportsbook.com currently have the Chiefs listed as 7-point favorites versus the 49ers.

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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.