It is way too flipping hot out! How am I supposed to golf in sweltering Alaska heat? I miss the days when it was a brisk 34 degrees. That’s golfing weather folks.

Don’t get me started on the sun rudely creating awful shadows through which I have to swing. I could go on and on. Bring back the cold rain! That’s the ultimate anti-jinx reverse psychology ploy. Hopefully it works.

Fore! After an extended winter we were beginning to wonder if the snow would ever disappear, but the golf course is finally open for play. You read that correctly. No need to buy a new pair of cheaters if you’re visually impaired. Your eyes do not deceive you!

Your favorite pigskin pick’em columnist is back to tackle the NFL Divisional playoff round for the Peninsula Clarion. There are eight teams left contending for the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the Vikings, Bengals, Colts and hapless Redskins were sent home crying to their mommas last weekend.

A routine 8-7-1 week leaves us at an incredibly average 103-97-7 for the season. I’ve spent a good deal of time assessing my own feelings today. Should I be upset that I haven’t won more? Should I be thrilled that I didn’t completely bomb in my first year of writing pick’em columns for the Clarion? As I have mentioned before, being correct on 60% of your selections is the stuff Las Vegas legends are made of. Very few people can win at that level. Everybody knows the New England Patriots would beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in Foxborough, but are the Patriots going to win by 17 points?