I left it until quite late this year, but here is my annual tradition... golf major predictions. The theme for 2007 will be redemption.

And the winners of the four majors this year:

Masters - Tiger Woods. He will redeem himself for not winning the Masters last year. This is is favourite tournament, and while this pick is not very original, he's just playing as good as ever. So, the back and forth between Tiger and Phil at the green jacket ceremony continues as they have alternated as winners since 2004 inclusive.

U.S. Open - Phil Mickelson. He will redeem himself for last year's debacle, and earn his first Open.

(British) Open Championship - Colin Montgomerie. He will redeem himself for years of close calls (especially last year's U.S. Open and the 2005 British) and finally be a major champion, and finally give Europe another major.

PGA Championship - Chris DiMarco. He will redeem himself for two consecutive second-place finishes at majors (the 2004 PGA Championship - which Vijay Singh won - and the 2005 Masters, which Tiger memorably won over DiMarco in a playoff, which was also the second Masters in a row in which DiMarco was in the final group.) He may not be playing the best right now, but I see him having his breakthrough tournament in the same way as David Toms, Rich Beem and Shaun Micheel.

As a bonus, I will pick one darkhorse to win any of the majors. (But I will only count this as a correct prediction if he wins the PGA Championship, since I would give that tourney his best chance.) And that's Tim Clark. He's been really solid at major championships, and the PGA is the one tournament where anything can happen.

That's it. We'll see how these pan out. (Hey for the first time in a while I didn't pick Mike Weir! But I'll still pull for him.)

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In February, I wrote a blog recently about the two episodes of Law & Order "ripped from the headlines" about Ted Haggard. I found it surprising that two of the three series had episodes on the same theme. Well now they've gone one more to complete the trifecta. On a recent episode of SVU they went along the same route, this one featuring Tim Daly as the preacher. But this one had a twist. I won't ruin it, in case people still plan on watching it online or over the summer. But let's just say that theing are not what they seem with this one.

In addition to the twist, this episode was also more heavy on the religious "commentary." Benson said she blamed religion for the pastor's family's problems, because that's what caused him to do certain things to "convince" himself he wasn't gay. But one thing I love about L&O is it's never heavy-handed on one side of a debate. Stabler countered what she was saying. L&O always stimulates good discussion on a spiritual, religious or moral topic, but doesn't force one particular opinion.