1.   Also, handicapping the winners this year is more difficult than in the past.

2.   Among the seven first-time winners this year have been characters straight out of central casting.

3.   Among the winners this year are two writers for The New York Times.

4.   A big Sundance winner this year, written, directed by and starring playwright John Cameron Mitchell.

5.   Across the world, buoyant economies and strong markets yielded a big crop of winners this year in the U.S., Asia and Europe.

6.   But there are no sure-fire winners this year.

7.   Eddie Lee earnestly believed his ON EARTH PEACE display would make him a winner this year, finally.

8.   Durant, a two-time winner this year, birdied the first hole but bogeyed the next two holes and failed to put pressure on Sutton.

9.   Fans and front office alike want a winner this year and have been sufficiently teased.

10.   Finally, the winner this year absolutely will be Davis Love III.