Suppose you simulate $X_i\sim\mathcal{N}(0,1)$ and then you set $Y_i=1+\varepsilon_i$, with $\varepsilon_i\sim\mathcal{N}(0,X_i^2)$, for $i=1,\ldots,n$. A scatterplot of a random sample from the pair $(X,Y)$ will be something like:

It is clear that $X$ and $Y$ are not independent: although the conditional mean of $Y$ remains the same ($1$) regardless the value of $X$, the effect of $X$ on the conditional variance of $Y$ is evident. The linear regression model $Y=\beta_0+\beta_1X+\varepsilon$ holds (with $\beta_0=1$ and $\beta_1=0$) and the red line represents the fitted linear model to the sample.
So, if you understand "association" as "dependence", here you have a counterexample where $X$ and $Y$ are associated but linearly independent (or "no linearly associated"). Roughly speaking, the reason is that linear association looks only to relationships between $Y$ and $X$ that could be modeled by a straight line and it may produce this kind of effects when the dependence between them is more complex.
You can find more information and counterexamples on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence.