11.   But if trash talk is a Botha weapon, it figures to come in the later rounds.

12.   But for a hook-tip moth larva, it seems, trash talk is everything.

13.   But that surreal outcome is relevant this week because of a harmless comment by UCLA quarterback Cade McNown that was twisted and turned into trash talk directed at Arizona.

14.   But the thing I know and my teammates know is that once the game starts, everything said in interviews and all the trash talk is forgotten.

15.   Dixon, with whom Whitaker exchanged trash talk before the fight, avoided fighting by landing several low blows and being disqualified in the first round.

16.   During practice, Irvin caught a few passes and unleashed his usual amount of trash talk.

17.   Each let great plays do his talking and, amazingly, did it all without gold chains, earrings, painted heads or trash talk.

18.   Even his trash talk is appropriate for mixed company.

19.   Ever the student of trash talk, Cavil said he had noticed in Nebraska game film that Ralph Brown wore a mouthpiece.

20.   Especially when the Knicks start winning and responding to trash talk with their own brand of nastiness.