to PRO High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels. I feel a sudden, strange urge to play Santa Claus to some folks in the sports community. I say “strange” because I’m not typically infused with loads of Christmas spirit. Oh, I enjoy hanging the greens and attending Christmas Eve Mass at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church here in Excelsior Springs. But my enthusiasm for Christmas is far below the level it was during my youth. I blame that on decades of being bombarded with Christmas TV specials, Christmas music that radio stations start playing before Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations that stores feel compelled to start displaying before Halloween. Yet here I am with a yen to give some gifts to a few coaches and players a few days before the Dec. 25 holiday. And so, like the late Dick Puhr, a colleague of mine during my days as a sports stringer for The Examiner in Jackson…