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Bo Jackson knew baseball, Bo knew basketball, but Bo, you don't know Weekley. Boo Weekley, that is.

Maybe Bo does know Boo, or can speak to the shared experience of growing up in the rural south. We've been refreshed by other professional athletes from rural backgrounds who tend to speak their minds and shun the memorized sound bite, people like Charles Barkley and another golfer, John Daly. Never did I see Barkley or Daly plying his trade with dip spittle on his lower lip, though, which is what I'm pretty sure I saw on Weekley during last Sunday's final round of the Honda Classic.

Daly and Barkley have their own peccadilloes, to be sure, and I'm not about to go trumpeting chew, but there was Weekley in one moment on camera checking golf's image as a sport for the rich played by whiners who sometimes hurt themselves with their swings, like Daly, who apparently wrenched himself in the first round last week when a camera went off during his swing. He had to withdraw from the tournament.

Can you imagine if Weekley makes it into the top-10 on the money list and qualifies for The Masters? Picture him getting caught spitting on camera. Nantz wouldn't know what to say. The cameraman would be fired.

A quick comment to counter any previous suggestion that golf could use a little dip on its lip every now and then: I watched several long chunks of the European Tour's coverage last weekend (I don't remember the name of the tournament, but it was in Thailand and the prize for a hole-in-one on one of the par-3s was a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue) and was refreshed by the commentary, which is to say there was hardly any. It wasn't the first time I've checked in on European Tour coverage. But this one was more sedating than others for some reason. Let me put it to you like this: I've been to the opera once in my life and had a deeper sleep in those three hours than any other chunk of sleep I'd ever had. In chunks of twenty minutes all weekend the European Tour got me there. I say this as a high compliment. I wanted to mention it now because I plan on checking in with their coverage for the rest of the year, and of course reporting my findings.

Anyway, for all you do, this Boo's for you.

Last week: Allenby seems to be having problems on Sunday, particularly on the back nine on Sunday. I felt good with him in the outright all week, especially going into the final round. He blew it with back-to-back bogeys on 15 and 16 and ended up T5. If he makes par on those two late holes he wins at -6. Allenby's still a good head-to-head pick, though, and I'm glad I picked him over Luke Donald. That win, at 9-10, 1 unit, yielded $900.

In this week's PODS Championship, take Joe Durant (40-1), 1/6 unit: Durant loves the Copperhead Course, which makes sense as this is considered a ball-striker's course. Durant is always one of the best hitters of greens on Tour. It's when he gets on the greens that there's a problem. His game is like K.J. Choi's---nothing flashy but consistently good---and Choi has won on this course twice.

Take Arron Oberholser (50-1), 1/6 unit: Oberholser withdrew from the season-opening Mercedes because of a bad back. He came back two weeks ago at the Match Play and last week surprised (me, anyway) with a T10 at the Honda Classic. Oberholser is another good ball striker. We might be seeing him in start-of-the-season form given the layoff. Meaning, a quick start last year ended in his first win, at Pebble, just four tournaments into the season. In fact, he's been good out of the gate for the last several years. The question mark is the injury. Who can say on that front? We're talking golfers here. Daly's bow out was not exactly like a hockey player having his face sewn up between periods then coming out for more. All I can say is I like Oberholser's chances if he's OK.

Take Daniel Chopra (66-1), 1/6 unit: Chopra had an outside chance to get into a playoff last week but a birdie on the last hole wouldn't have mattered anyway as the playoff number was -5. He finished -3 for a T8, but I thought back to consecutive top-10s toward the end of last year, particularly a T2 at the Frys.com, and his comments that he likes playing for contention on Sundays. He likes the pressure. It showed in Vegas and it showed, albeit to a lesser degree, last Sunday as he carded two birdies and no bogeys on the back nine. He can be streaky and his temper might still be a lingering issue, but he's certainly got the talent.

Brian Gabrielle is a documented member of the Professional Handicappers League. Read all of his articles at [http://www.procappers.com/Brian_Gabrielle.htm]

Kentucky Wildcats Tickets - Bouncing Back From Loss

Same team, two matches and two dramatically different performances; they lost their first game on Friday against Dillon and the very next day defeated the Southwestern Anaconda.

Columbia Falls high school basket ball team lost their first match on the 12th of December to Dillon, it wasn't a performance which would have done their coach Carey Finberg any proud. They missed opportunities every now and then. The defense was split wide open by an overly aggressive Dillon team. The closest the Cats came to Dillon was in the penultimate quarter, where they were just trailing be 5 points. The Cats conceded 21 points in the final quarter and the match at the Hamilton high school ended at 50-35 in favor of Dillon.

Inability to score points at crucial moments affected the Cats in other aspects of the game, as well. They were forced to be on the back foot and became really tentative. So much so that they even missed some sitters. They had trouble catching the ball and didn't seem in the game at all.

The Cats had a chance to cut the lead to three in the final seconds of the third quarter but missed a lay up. And Dillon hit a 3-pointer to start the proceedings in the fourth quarter. The lead just got wider and wider after that.

CFHS suffered 25 turnovers and shot just 30 percent from the field. The Cats were just 2-for-17 from behind the 3-point arc.

The Cats lead the rebounds and that was one of the positives from the game, Kaleb Johnson led CFHS with eight rebounds. Michael Williams led the Cats with 10 points. Mackey Nolan had three assists.

But at Corvallis, the Cats seemed a totally different team. And it was a complete team game, literally, as coach Finberg made all the substitution he could. The Cats scored at least 20 points in each quarter and very aggressive on the offence. The Cats defense seemed impermeable as they managed to restrict Anaconda to 25 second-half points.

It was the initial baskets that lifted the morale of an already disappointed team, and once they regained their confidence there was no stopping them. The Cats shot 50 percent from the field, and were 9-for-19 on 3-pointers. They converted 14 out of the 21 free throws they got. Seven players scored eight or more points, and 10 Cats played at least 10 minutes.

The rebound was strong against Anaconda too, 32-24. Nolan had seven rebounds, and Grant Getts added six.

Nolan had a very solid all-around game. He had 11 points and 11 assists for a double-double, plus three steals and only one turnover. The Cats had only 11 turnovers in the win.

Austin Barth led the Cats with 14 points and blocked two shots, in his just second freshman game. Tanner Barth added 12 points; Williams had 11, Getts 9, and Kyle Howell and Mitchell Wassam 8 each. Both Tanner and Austin Barth came off the bench.

The Cats face Flathead High on Friday in Kalispell, and then they play Sentinel on Saturday in Missoula.

Ray Laslovich scored 11 points to pace the Copperheads.

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Southwestern A divisional: Beavers, Copperheads again teams to beat
Behind the Dillon boys' and Anaconda girls' basketball teams,the Southwestern A has collected a pair of State A championships inboth genders since 2007.

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