Prayers for hockey kids and families, Tiger tracking and Sho-time ...

Say a prayer today for a bunch of Canadian junior hockey players who never made it to their game on Friday night because of a tragic bus accident.

Pray for these children, and for their families. God, what a terrible story. You sometimes get the idea following what so often becomes fanboy coverage of on just about every media platform there is, that no angels will ever again get their wings if he doesn’t continue to try to turn back the clock in golf.

I’ve played golf my whole life and followed golf since I first picked up a club at the age of nine.

I’m grateful that I saw Woods at his best, and understand, completely, how good it is for the sport that he is back and playing well enough to compete at a couple of tournaments in Florida.

As a fan of golf and just a sports fan, I hope it lasts.

I get why the networks are even giddier to have him back in play than they were about Sister Jean during the NCAA basketball tournament.

Still: When he is on the course, you don’t just feel as if he’s trying to win again, you feel the same way you did about guy has moved in with you. I forget which tournament it was that

one of my favorite golf announcers anywhere, said on Sunday, “Well, it’s Tiger time.”

And immediately thought Peter’s watch had stopped about ten years ago. By the way? To Tiger’s great and lasting credit, when asked to perhaps overly dramatize his own comeback from various injuries and surgeries, he immediately referenced the fact that Ben Hogan managed to come back and play the best golf of his career after nearly dying in 1949 when a Greyhound bus crashed into the Cadillac he was driving on Highway 80 near Van Horn, Texas. Everybody was reminded the other day about how cruel a sport golf can be as we watched the defending Masters champ, hit one ball after another into the water in front of the 15th green at Augusta National.

But, like, one of the best wedge players on the planet couldn’t have just taken some spin off the ball with one of those shots?

After said on Friday afternoon that anybody making the cut could still win That the the Masters, my oldest son texted me and said, “Yeah, is thinking that if he can just make it to the weekend, look out.” I am just wondering if all the baseball fans, far and wide, who decided that

The Sho-Hey Kid, was just some sort of novelty act because of a sketchy spring training are still thinking that now.

Of all the surprises of the first 10 days of the season, and there have been plenty, there is no bigger one than the Pittsburgh Pirates.

On a night when the Cavaliers were down 30 points to the 76ers, they don’t just come all the way back and nearly win the game, finishes with 44 points and 11 rebounds and 11 assists, and once again proves his own case, that he’s playing better at the age of 33 than he ever has.

I honestly believe, if LeBron can make it back to the NBA Finals for the 8th year in a row, that the Rockets would be a better matchup for the Cavaliers than the Warriors, as bangedup as the Warriors are right now, and will be going into the playoffs because of ankle. When you look at everything that has happened to the Knicks since 2001, the period when they’ve lost more games than anybody in the league, you wonder why they don’t think about bringing back as their coach.

They were 54-28 with Woodson as coach one year.

He took over for the year before that, when the Knicks were gone, and they went 18-6 down the stretch and not only got into the playoffs, but got a game off LeBron and them from Miami.

Then couldn’t wait to get rid of him. Why? Well, you know the answer to that. Phil’s a genius, that’s why! My pal new book, “Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You’ll Never Hear” (publication date is Tuesday) is one of the funniest things he’s ever written. And that is saying plenty.

showed more fight in Brooklyn the other day than he did against Mayweather. I hope the Jets take But let’s be honest:

might be tons of fun, too. If somehow doesn’t win the MVP award for the NBA this year, I just say he blames the whole thing on illegal voters.