Weekend Wake Up: Alexis Thompson's Hello, Hockey's Quiet Start, Iverson's Discontent

Today is chock-full of baseball and football. I'll get to that, don't worry.Who Is Alexis Thompson? That's the lede in the Associated Press story about the LPGA's latest teen sensation, 14-year-old Alexis Thompson, who enters the weekend tied for the lead at the Navistar LPGA Classic with four players, including world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa. Thompson's also the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open, making the field two years ago at the ripe old age of 12. The youth movement in women's golf is strong indeed.Hello, Hockey? Yesterday, while flipping through channels on my TV during the day, I came upon Versus, which was airing, live from Helsinki, the NHL's Premiere Tip-Off Shootout Classic (I think) between the Florida Panthers, nominally my favorite team as a Floridian, and the Chicago Blackhawks. Tomas Vokoun made 52 saves, including two in a shootout, and the Panthers won 4-3, but it seemed strange to me that the NHL -- despite a Thursday...