21.   Forget trash talk and face-spits and eye-jabs.

22.   Garnett traded trash talk with Nocioni the rest of the way, although neither could understand the other.

23.   From anyone else, that might sound like trash talk.

24.   From television shows based on put-down humor to trash talk among sports figures to name-calling at national political conventions, the cultural atmosphere tells children to let it rip.

25.   From there, the trash talk picked up considerably.

26.   From head-butts to hideous trash talk, from Miller versus John Starks, the Pacers-Knicks rivalry has been as combustible as any in the league.

27.   Green assaults Nowitzki with good old-fashioned American trash talk.

28.   He never bad-mouths political opponents in public, eschewing campaign-trail trash talk as feeding the kind of domestic divisiveness that only war can overcome.

29.   Heck, even her post-game trash talk was better than mine.

30.   His tendency toward trash talk annoyed a lot of people, but off the field, with the adrenaline ebbing, he unveils a gift for story-telling.