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 ...

This essay has been adapted from Trash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn’t Total Garbage by Rafi Kohan, available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group Inc.

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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, ...