The most dominant golfer in the world is off to another stellar start in 2008, having absolutely dominated the first few events of the season.
Meanwhile, Tiger Woods finished in second place at the Masters.
Even if you consider yourself nothing more than a casual golf fan, there is a good chance you’ve never heard of Lorena Ochoa, winner of four of seven events on the LPGA tour this year.

A certain segment of comic book fans must be loving the start of the 2008 Major League Baseball season.
Allow me to explain.
In the early 1960s, DC introduced the concept of “Bizarro World” to their comics universe. The idea was a simple one: what would happen in a parallel universe where everything was a mutated version of Earth?
Sure, you would have a Superman, but he wouldn’t fight for truth, justice, and the American way. Bizarro Superman would be dark and sinister. Likewise, Bizarro Lois Lane would be cruel—and a terrible reporter.

I’ve never met a curler I didn’t like.
I know such a blanket statement may be difficult to make, but it’s true. And my hypothesis is simple: As soon as a person slides into that one slippy shoe thing, they instantly become three times more congenial.
(And honestly, how could you not? Sliding makes people happy).
Such was the case when I attended the final games of the Alexander Keith’s Men’s International Bonspiel at the Fort Frances Curling Club over the weekend.

Three weeks ago, I didn’t know there was such a thing as a traffic sign designed specifically for snowmobilers.
To be honest, coming to Fort Frances from southern Alberta, I actually only knew one guy who even owned a snowmobile (and even he was from northern B.C.)
Yet at the end of February, as I drove farther and farther in an easterly direction, I noticed dozens of little stop signs and yield signs popping up on the side of the highway.
Manitoba and Ontario are nothing if not safety-conscious.
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Hollywood could not have scripted one much better than this.
Sure, a screen writer probably could’ve ensured a little more scoring to take some of the starch out of what was a 7-3 game for the bulk of the clock.
But the idea of the Giants, who were anything but in the eyes of most football fans, taking down the big, bad Patriots in the one game that mattered in the final seconds is the sort of thing usually reserved for those who can imagine anything happening, without the obvious complication of having it play out on the field.

There’s something about those Sabres that just brings out the worst in everyone.
Make no mistake about it—the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres are a strong team in the SIJHL and are recognized as formidable opponents by all (okay, maybe not the Dryden Ice Dogs).
Other teams make sure to bring their ‘A’ game to Fort Frances.
The problem is that they also bring something else entirely: a nasty, brutish edge. Two line brawls and a rowdy sideshow against the Schreiber Diesels in just 16 home games on the season is alarming—even in a league as identified by fights as the SIJHL.

Local hockey fans should enjoy Duncan Keith’s all-star status while it lasts because a selection like that may not come again for a while.
That’s not to condemn Keith for having yet another solid season on the Chicago Blackhawks’ blueline.
And it’s certainly not to say the 24-year-old assistant captain doesn’t deserve the honour, although there are many in the hockey world that would say he is the least deserving of all the 2008 all-stars.

It wasn’t just Jason Blake who came away Saturday night with a black eye.
Steve Downie, the NHL’s latest repeat offender, in a prime time match-up between the Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs, took advantage of Blake, the Toronto winger fully restrained by a linesman, by socking him square in the left eye.
He has received a lecture from league disciplinarian Colin Campbell and has spoken to Flyers’ GM Paul Holmgren, but will not be suspended.

Hockey enough for ya?
Sports fans, ever so short on options, could have spent their time enjoying the holidays this year in front of the TV for any number of hockey games, each built up and hyped in their own way, instead of, you know, enjoying the
holidays away from the TV.
Between yesterday’s revival of the “Heritage Classic” as the NHL’s new outdoor “Winter Classic,” the usual series of blowouts crowding out a few close contests at the World Juniors (now risen to the point of being a bona

There are many things sports fans love to do, but little as much as badmouth teams they do not like.
They complain about teams that aren’t tough enough or that aren’t talented enough. They moan about teams with no sense of history while bemoaning teams with too many fans and too much money.