Larry Bird. Muhammad Ali. Warren Sapp. Gary Payton. Deion Sanders. Across every generation in every sport, the greatest trash talkers understood the importance of winning the war between the ears.

As frivolous as it may sound, the use of trash talk has a long, hilarious history that dates back to the Bible and the Homeric poems. Fundamentally, this insult-slinging is the presentation of a ...

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