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The deck chairs keep moving in the TSN 1050/Sportsnet FAN 590 radio competition in Toronto, due to start next week.

Gord Stellick is also leaving the FAN to head for Sirius satellite radio's hockey channel to do a hockey show from noon to 2 P.M. Stellick doing hockey - what will they think of next?

Stellick's departure opens the way for Primetime Sports to return as a 4-7 p.m. show once again, from 3-6 p.m., with Andrew Krystal filling in 1 - 4 p.m. Thus, virtually all of program director Don Kollins's initial moves as program director at the FAN have been reversed or abandoned. At TSN, Bryan Hayes makes the move from AM 640 as it prepares to jettison its experiment with the Maple Leafs rights. Hayes is getting 10-noon after Mike Richards. (So much for syndicated U.S. hosts Jim Rome and Dan Patrick, eh?)

Elsewhere, Stormin’ Norman Rumack returns to Toronto airwaves starting Monday as he joins The Score Radio as a late-night host. Executive producer Mike Gentile says he wants the former FAN 590 character to shake things up as he once did. “We’re not talking about him swearing and carrying on,” Gentile said. “But we want the old fire he showed engaging guests back in his prime. We think he could make a great addition to Puck Daddy Radio in the morning and our other shows.”

TSN Radio has lured writer Bruce Arthur, who’d been a regular guest on then FAN’s Prime Time Sports, to be a co-host once a week with James Cybulski on its afternoon drive show Cybulski & Co. Arthur also joins The Reporters, the Sunday morning TV program which lost Damian Cox to Rogers and Michael Farber temporarily to illness.

A finger in the eye of golf’s TV vigilantes: Just hours before the start of the Masters on Thursday, the governing bodies of the game (the USGA and the R &A in Great Britain) stuck a finger in the eye of golf’s TV vigilantes. One of sport’s enduring charms (?) is the eagle-eyed role of viewers in affecting the outcome of even major tournaments. In the past, TV detectives have noticed rules infractions missed by officials on course and phoned them in. Causing embarrassment to the golf establishment.

Earlier this year, Camilo Villegas was disqualified in Hawaii after a viewer spotted him tamping down a divot that was in the path of his ball - a two-stroke penalty Villegas failed to call on himself. Padraig Harrington likewise was disqualified in Abu Dhabi when HD video replays later showed his ball had moved microscopically as he addressed it.

No more. In cases such as Harrington’s, where players can reasonably assert they did not see the infraction, the player will now be assessed the two-stroke penalty but not be disqualified. However, in cases such as that of Villegas or Dustin Johnston at last year’s PGA (who grounded his club in a sand hazard), players are still expected to know the rules and will still be DQ’d.

So if you planned to spend the weekend breaking down the Masters telecast like the Zapruder film in an effort to achieve your 15 minutes of fame, you might want to take up a new hobby.

West Is Best: Anaheim Ducks Corey Perry forward became the next hot property recently as he pushed his team to an (almost certain) playoff spot with his 50-goal performance. In doing so he became the darling of NHL voters in the media, who’d previously given their hearts to Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin. Prior to that the impressionable voters were swooning for Sidney Crosby.