A look around the world of sports including Michael Vick, golf courses, ice hockey, tennis and more. Let's get started...

Michael Vick will be making license plates for a while after pleading guilty to a federal dog-fighting charge and to being complicit in the killing of at least six dogs that underperformed. He did the usual mea culpa any celebrity or athlete does after getting caught for something they know is illegal. His apology, however, doesn't seem very sincere.

''Dogfighting is a terrible thing, and I did reject it,'' he said.

Well, Mr. Vick, actually you didn't until you couldn't. Why he did it for so long and would he still be doing it if he weren't caught are two questions that remain unanswered. This wasn't a one-time act of road rage; this was planned and had been going on for years.

Many are terrified of pit bulls and wish them banned, but they don't resort to torture and then put them in the ring to make a few bucks – even if they need the money. And what about all those animals that were used for 'training purposes'?

Vick joins a growing list of NFLers (Numerous Felons League) who have flouted the law repeatedly and then asked for 'forgiveness and understanding' when caught.

How sad that many golf courses are mandating players use carts to speed up play and increase total rounds, thereby escalating profits. These same clubs then have the audacity to charge golfers an additional 30 bucks or so for the cart.

Personally, I'm not convinced that a cart speeds it up all that much when you take into consideration that carts aren't allowed everywhere on the course. Drive near the green with a cart and the marshals will shoot you on sight.

The sport that is trying to be more affordable is slapping an enormous surcharge on its customers. Yeah, that will grow the game. A special thanks goes to Tiger Woods for his newest design project in North Carolina where carts will be prohibited.

Eighteen holes averages 3-5 miles of decent exercise, but a cart eliminates much of it. Add in the buxom cart girls who offer sugar-drenched refreshments along with the 9th-hole snack bar and it's no mystery why obesity is rampant.

Speaking of the garbage masquerading as food served at golf courses, I spent the first of two weeks traveling in luxury with the Canadian Pro Golf Tour (actually, it's a Travelodge, but it's gratis) to file stories on some former All-Americans working their way up.

Continuing his healthy eating and regular exercise lifestyle that began a couple of years ago, yours truly ordered a Caesar salad in the clubhouse. Being the Canadian Tour, there is no free lunch (fruit and drinks were covered) for the media hacks. Okay, a Caesar isn't the healthiest, but it was the least of the evils available. Deciding to add chicken to it, I was shocked to be handed a bill for $15. Yup, a sawbuck and a fin for a pitifully small salad with a few microscopic pieces of a dead bird thrown on top. Heck, they could've peeled the flesh off the beast while he was still alive and he wouldn't have noticed.

You wonder how golf clubs can get away with this robbery without batting an eye. The players had to cough it up too. The millionaires on the big tour get surf and turf on the house but the starving drain their bank account for a burger and beer.

Tour nice guy Steve Stricker captured the Barclays Classic on Sunday by a pair over K.J. Choi. He and 119 others move to the second round of the playoffs that nobody, but Tim Finchem cares about. Woods is playing this week so it'll be All Tiger All The Time while the mouths in the booth try once more to convince us he can walk on water.

Canadian and Russian juniors are engaged in an eight-game Super Series of ice hockey in an attempt to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the famed 1972 series. Canada has been milking the victory ever since and it's getting ridiculous. That was another era when Russia was part of the communist Soviet Union and the cold war was raging. There was serious animosity and mistrust between east and west and the series had ideological overtones.

Canada won with 34 seconds left in the final game, but people forget that Jean Paul Parise threatened to decapitate a referee after several controversial calls and Bobby Clarke was instructed by John Ferguson to break superstar Valerie Kharlamov's ankle in game six to knock him out of the series. He nearly did with a vicious slash. Kharlamov struggled the rest of the way and missed game seven. Clarke defends his actions to this day, but hero Paul Henderson is still disturbed by it. This is the same Bobby Clarke who screams blue murder when someone goes after one of his players.

Perhaps it's because she's not photogenic like Maria Sharapova or abrasive like Serena Williams, but Justine Henin has to be the most underrated top player in a long time. She's won six big ones and despite a nagging shoulder injury, she may capture her seventh at the U.S. Open.

Her face shielded by a cap on court, Henin quietly does her thing and decimates opponents with one of the most devastating backhands in history. She wears her opponents down and before they realize it they are down a set and a break in the second.

Quote of the Month has to go to young Dalton Carriker who hit the game winning home run in extra innings to win the Little League World Series for the U.S.A.

"I felt like I was flying, like Peter Pan," Carriker answered when asked how he felt rounding the bases. "I didn't know what I was doing."

Classic stuff and much better than the standard clichés we get from athletes who get paid millions.