Hansen overtakes Westwood for Mercedes lead

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09/14/2007 - Cologne, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Soren Hansen carded a four-under 68 Friday to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Mercedes Benz Championship.

Hansen completed 36 holes at 11-under-par 133.

Lee Westwood, who fired a 61 on Thursday, coughed up a four-shot lead in the second round with four bogeys on the back nine. He ended up shooting one-over 73 and is alone in second at 10-under-par 132.

Bernhard Langer, who is serving as tournament host this week, posted a four- under 68 on Friday. He moved into a share of third at seven-under-par 137 with Simon Khan (70) and Simon Dyson (71).

Hansen went out two hours before Westwood. Hansen carded his first birdie on the par-five third. He then collected back-to-back birdies from the fifth to move to 10-under.

The 33 year old gave a stroke back on the ninth at Gut Larchenhof. Around the turn, Hansen birdied the par-five 13th for the second straight day.

Hansen parred his next three holes before moving to 11-under with a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-four 17th. He closed with a par, but still trailed Westwood by three.

"Something has really clicked the last few months and I'm really enjoying my game and my golf at the moment," Hansen said. "I knew it has always been in there, but it is just a matter of being more consistent. The last three months I have gone out and played solid golf.

"My putting is also definitely better. People who have been following me throughout my career say my stroke is a lot different now to the way it used to be and that my whole short game is a lot sharper. My wedge play is better and when you put all three of those ingredients together, the game gets a lot easier."

Westwood stumbled to a bogey on the second, but rebounded in fine fashion. He rolled in back-to-back birdies from the fifth to get to 12-under.

The Englishman then chipped in for eagle on the par-five seventh to jump four clear of Hansen at 14-under. Westwood parred three in a row around the turn, but trouble loomed.

Westwood gave a stroke back at the par-three 11th. He faltered to another bogey on 14. A day after making birdie on the par-three 16th, Westwood tripped to a bogey there on Friday to drop into a share of the lead at 11-under.

After a par on 17, Westwood closed with a bogey at the last to fall into second place.

"All in all I didn't play too badly, but if I was being honest I didn't hit enough fairways," said Westwood, who battled a head cold in round two. "But I didn't think I played as badly as a 73, I didn't think I got much out of my round today other than the chip in on the seventh for my eagle."

Thomas Bjorn fired a 67 to move into a share of sixth at six-under-par 138. He was joined there by two-time major champion John Daly, Niclas Fasth, eight- time Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 1999 British Open champ Paul Lawrie and Mikko Ilonen.

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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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