The Shootout and The Masters.

- As I've stated before I think the NHL shootout should be abolished immediately and this weekend proved it again. I'm honestly not the least bit sour that the Leafs missed the playoffs but the Isles should have had to have won in overtime to do it. My suggestion is to make overtime 4 on 4 for 10 minutes then if the game ends in a tie each team gets a point. The winning team gets two points and the loser gets nothing. How stupid was it that the Leafs could have won Saturday night's game in overtime and still be eliminated?

- Congratulations to Zach Johnson on winning The Masters yesterday. I've said before that I enjoy watching Tiger winning but I wanted to see someone finally step up and beat him on a Sunday and Johnson did just that. He made a couple of clutch birdies right when it looked like Tiger might make a run at him. It was great to see and hopefully other guys will see that it can be done.

- Count me among those who didn't like the way the course played. The best thing about watching The Masters is seeing 5 or 6 guys making a run of birdies on the back nine on Sunday to give themselves a shot. The new set up does not allow that to happen. If they keep using this setup Phil and Tiger are going to win 8 of the next 10. To paraphrase Mike Lupica, and I hope to God that's the last time I ever write that sentence, a lot of things are supposed to happen at Augusta in April, the US Open isn't one of them.

- The normally reliable Peter Oosterhuis should be fined about $8 million for making the ridiculous suggestion that Tiger appeared "under the weather" yesterday. Good on Nick Faldo, who along with Johhnny Miller are the only two color guys in golf willing to speak the truth, for saying Tiger wasn't sick at all. Johnson just beat him yesterday, don't make excuses for him.

- And finally, for your Monday morning viewing pleasure is the incomparable artistic stylings of Horatio Cane.