Almost all of it is good

There's some interesting things going on sports-wise in the next few weeks. Hardly any of them have much to do with hockey, with the exception of the Weeks Celebrity Golf Tournament on Friday. This year's marquee guest is Montreal Canadiens' legend Jean Beliveau, said to be one of the classiest gentlemen to ever play the game. He was before my time, but he has 10 Stanley Cup rings as a player, enough for every finger and both thumbs.
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The Midget girls' fastpitch nationals is coming to Stellarton Aug. 3-10. This will definitely be a highlight of the local core team that basically grew up playing softball together, under the direction of coach Jeff Green.
A young team, they'll be seeing some tough competition down this way come early August, but sports is a funny thing - you just never for sure what's going to happen. Our local junior 'A' club, the Pictou County Weeks Crushers, can tell you all about it.

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A bunch of us wonderful do-gooders here at The News are entering a boat in the Pictou County Dragon Boat Festival next month.
A few years ago, planning only on being a cheerleader for our team, I had to fill in after two of our paddlers seemed to have gotten lost during a lull in the proceedings.
That was fine, but I didn't appreciate losing the race after all that paddling. It wasn't even my fault.
This year, we've added some muscle - we've got a couple of country girls who throw around hay bales and peat moss bags and think nothing of it, so things look promising.

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Got an email over the weekend from Pizza Man, responding to the column on Native-related sports team nicknames.
Pizza Man wrote:
"Just a note to your Saturday column (r.e.) the Kansas City Chiefs. Dallas Texans owner Lamar Hunt was reluctant to move to Kansas City until Mayor H. Roe "Chief" Bartle promised to enlarge the city's stadium and guarantee high season ticket sales. Hunt showed his appreciation by naming the team after him. Therefore the moniker "Chiefs" should not be an insult to anyone."

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An adult tennis tournament is being organized in New Glasgow for early August - details forthcoming.
This is long overdue for the area, which I am told used to be a tennis hotbed back in the crazy 1970s, before the baby boomers started getting older and took up sports that don't require a lot of athletic ability -such as golf. I love golf, but it's not exactly physically demanding. Although, it does make you want to wrap clubs around trees when things aren't going so terrific. That will pop some calories, every time.

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I hear Digby Pines has a great golf course. Should I ever find reason to travel to that neck of the woods, I'll make sure the cops don't have some kind of charity event going on down there at the same time.
Nothing good ever happens on the street at 2 a.m., as they say, and few things are worse than a cop with an "I-can-do-whatever-I-want-to-whomever-I-want" attitude.
The bottom line is, if someone is going to toss off a racial insult (as has been alleged), fall drunkenly out of a van and take a big roundhouse swing-and-miss (as has been alleged), then get knocked out by the black guy one of them called a 'n-----' (as has been alleged), we can only conclude the cop asked for it.
What would be real justice (if what we think happened did happen) is to have one or two of these officers find another line of work - they don't sound like people persons.
They perhaps aren't… how do you say it?... suitable for public service. Maybe they should start playing golf, find a big tree, and take out their inevitable frustration on 3-woods.

Kevin Adshade is sports editor with The News.