In ‘Trash Talk – The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn’t Total Garbage’ (Public Affairs), Rafi Kohan charts the history of sports’ braggarts and blabbermouths to find out why they hurl ...

It’s the sport within the sport — and it’s often more entertaining than the one on the scoreboard. The term didn’t come into vogue until the 1990s, but trash talk — alternately called talking smack, ...

‘Trash Talk’ author Rafi Kohan explains how trash talk can motivate teams at work, how to respond when someone starts flapping gums your way, and how to use it to get ahead. On the most basic level, ...

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It feels intuitive that talking trash would up the ante in a competitive encounter. If you’re talking a big game, you don’t want to look like a fool by not backing it up. On the flip side, if an ...

Author Rafi Kohan says trash talk is "the language of competition" Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Trash talk. It’s the sport within the sport — and it’s often more entertaining than the one on ...

In this rollicking survey, sports writer Kohan (The Arena) examines how trash talk, which he calls “a specific form of incivility” that “allows people to communicate when they’re going head-to-head,” ...

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