Although good goaltending is essential for any winner hoping to become a dynasty, it is only one component.
Team Sky and British Cycling are investigating forming a development team which would have Sir Bradley Wiggins as their leader and figurehead from midway through 2015 into 2016, when the 2012 Tour de France winner hopes to bow out with a bid for an Olympic medal in Rio.
Fury, 25, will meet the fellow Briton in Manchester with the winner hoping to fight Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight crowns.
Another Golden Globe winner hoping for Oscar success is Julianne Moore, who plays a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in Still Alice.
Simpson, the 2011 winner, hopes to make an impression on U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson.
Of course, there is the Bounty-gate situation in New Orleans, a new quarterback in Denver and a powerful Super Bowl winner hoping to repeat.
Wales expect both North and Williams to recover as the 2012 Grand Slam winners hope to beat the Wallabies in Australia for the first time since 1969 at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Its original Broadway cast featured Marcia Gay Harden (a Tony winner), James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels (all Tony nominees).
While the Expos have been in a losers' league all their own, trading off a virtual All-Star team rather than build a winner and hope to make people pay attention, it gets trickier with the other candidates.
"The day I turn to you and say, 'John, what I just did in this role was a real winner,' I hope you'll have the courage and decency to throw a wreath around my head, and then so very quietly and compassionately shoot me".
