According to Slam Sports in Canada, Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson played friend Max Lizondo in a match at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club recently, with Alfredsson putting up three tickets for the Stanley Cup Finals against Lizondo’s $100. Lizondo won, taking home the tickets that Alfredsson said he’d have given him anyway. This story is interesting on several levels. Mostly for the fact that, wow, the Stanley Cup Finals are starting. How about that. I wasn’t completely sure they still held that event. Bully for them. Anyway, good luck to Anaheim Ducks in the finals against Alfredsson’s Senators. I’m originally from ...

When Zach Johnson looks back at his breakthrough 2007 campaign on the PGA Tour, he’ll sigh contently as he remembers being the No. 1 golfer on the Golfer Supremacy Rankings. Because Zach knows what really matters. We here at the GSR’s know what really matters, as well, and we’re wondering where Jesus was this weekend. Maybe he was in Japan, where a miraculous victory took place. Golfer Supremacy Rankings 1. Zach Johnson Comments: First of all, let us just say we think it’s faux outrageous that Jesus hasn’t been getting more credit for Johnson’s AT&T Classic. Following Johnson’s Masters triumph, his thanking of Jesus ...

I went to high school with former Major League Baseball player Al Martin. After graduating, I knew he had gone to the minors and I kept an eye on his progress, until he made it to the roster of my favorite team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Martin never achieved as much as it appeared he might in the big leagues, but he had a very good career and has nothing at all to be ashamed of in his efforts. For me, however, who grew up playing baseball, there was an unsettling twinge of jealousy I felt when Martin’s career took off. I ...

We here at the Golfer Supremacy Rankings are looking for a good rankings coach. Because we’ve got the basics of ranking golfers down cold, see, but some times small errors creep into our routine. Like the time we accidentally ranked Pol Pot as the world’s No. 1 golfer. That was embarrassing. The guy couldn’t break 80 if several million of his countrymans’ lives depended on it. So if any of you have any tips, feel free to guide them our way. Those we do feel pretty comfortable with this week’s rankings, which cover the gamut from player, coach and terrorist. Golfer ...

First of all, let me just say that I hold PGA.com writer Grant Boone in the highest regard. That being said, he’s a hack. Boone’s column “Poetic Justice,” apparently gave the editors over at the PGA the vapors, as they gushed: “It would appear to be a difficult – if not impossible – task to get Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton into the same column. But never underestimate the talents of our Grant Boone.” And don’t get me wrong. I’d never underestimate Boone. It can’t be easy to be the only son of Bob Boone not to make the Major Leagues (Editor’s ...

When all is said and done with the boxing career of Oscar De La Hoya, there will be plenty of good things to say. He was one of the top fighters in multiple weight divisions, he attracted non-boxing fans to the sport, and he fought the best of his era. Unfortunately for the Golden Boy, however, every time he faced the best competition, he lost. With the exception of De La Hoya’s embarassing loss to Bernard Hopkins, four of the five losses Oscar suffered were of the close decision variety. Close decisions De La Hoya could have won had he just ...

Golf blogger Bill Wolfrum, flush of his rousing success of picking Floyd Mayweather Jr. over Oscar De La Hoya, has immediately jumped back on the prognostication horse. “After being so wildly successful in taking Pretty Boy over the Golden Boy, a pick which made all those who disagreed with me look foolish and weak, I have decided to make my next pick while the iron is hot,” said Wolfrum, bathing in a favored sparkling wine. “The powers that I have tell me that there is no way Tiger Woods will fail to win the U.S. Open.” Some skeptics have questioned Wolfrum’s picking ...

Christopher Vitiello and Jonathan Ochoa have been around. From Guadalajara to Los Angeles to Augusta and many a stop in between, the longtime friends have been spending a lot of time on the road, watching golf. Actually, watching a golfer. The pair, both 24, have spent the last year following Ochoa’s famous cousin - reigning LPGA Player of the Year Lorena Ochoa - and putting together a documentary based on the young Mexican sensation. And a sensation she is, especially in Mexico, say the pair, where they’ve seen her develop into a full-fledged superstar in her home nation. “To put it into perspective, ...