My television remote prowess was on display last night. Not only was the Minnesota Wild playoff game on TV but so were the Twins, Timberwolves, NHL playoff action and NBA action. Not to mention one of my favorites shows - Top Chef. 

Because Top Chef is also one of my wife's favorite shows the Bravo channel was home base for all of the channel surfing. When Top Chef wasn't on. It was right to the Wild game. If that channel was on a commercial, quickly to the Twins game. Those were the three channels I flipped to most often.

That's my goal this summer. To drop my golf handicap down into the single digits.

 Right now, I'm not that far off of that goal. I finished last year with a handicap of 10.6. I figure that if I can come out of the gates playing well that number should get below 10 and into the single digits.

If I do start out well and do drop my handicap the hard thing will be to maintain all summer long and finish the season with a single handicap.

I'm in three NCAA pools this year and so far I'm doing pretty good in two of them and not so good in the third one.

For the most part I went with the chalk teams and that seems to be working. It doesn't pay to pick upsets because in the end it is usually the best teams that advance to the final four.

In the two pools that I am doing really well in and have a chance to win I have UCLA winning it all. Don't think I wasn't sweating out that game on Saturday night.

Having Georgetown lose hurt though because I had them in the Final Four. Oh well, can't get them all right.

Hello, everybody.Writing my first blog post and just wanted to introduce myself. I am the new sports editor for the Shakopee Valley News and Jordan Independent. I  look forward to covering the sports scene in Shakopee and Jordan. I come to both papers after working in Dakota County for eight years working for Thisweek Newspapers. I covered seven high schools including Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Lakeville, and Rosemount.