Ari Fleischer might have realized the job is impossible: all the kings horses and all the kings men won’t be able to put the facade that was Tiger Woods together again. That’s a good guess as to why he’s already gone from Team Tiger: he put a plan in place and now implementing it is up to Steiny, but don’t look for a happy ending to that story...
Steve Czaban asks some pointed questions to the Florida Highway Patrol – and by implication the people supposed to turn over Tiger’s blood and the surveillance tapes from the fateful night…
Sounds a little like the South Park episode Wednesday: “Oh dude, here come the cops. We have to lie to them. Hit “x” to lie…”
Despite what IMG, Ari Fleischer, and Tim Finchem may blindly hope, America is most certainly not done kicking Tiger Woods; we haven’t forgotten “go to the bathroom and take a picture” quite yet. Just take the temperature of the public at large, then watch what the entertainment industry is doing and you’ll see the true feelings of the rank and...
The hits keep coming for John Daly. Hot on the heels of harassing a news reporter, he has a second war brewing with Calloway, the company that rescued his career years ago so he could flush it even further. To show his gratitude, Daly brought all conversation – polite and otherwise – to a screeching halt by alleging they made him take Paxil and other...
Alleging harassment and cyberstalking, among other malfeasance, the Golf Writers Association of America has formally asked the PGA Tour to suspend John Daly for his vengefully publishing a sports writer’s phone number and encouraging his fans to harass him. Make no mistake, Daly is immature at best, dangerously anti-social and unhinged at worst. His conduct in...
I’ve been working on a longer piece about agent responsibility to not only their client, but the sponsors as well, but Mike Lupica of the Daily News has the same idea I do: It’s about time to hold agents responsible for whatever their role is in pandering, enabling or facilitating bad behavior or steroid use in their clients. Here is Lupica’s...
While a list of names is not yet available, according to Sports Illustrated, “Federal law enforcement officials have alerted a number of world-class athletes to expect grand jury subpoenas in the case against Canadian physician Anthony Galea, three sources familiar with the investigation tell SI.com. While it is unclear which athletes and how many will be...
Gatorade is now the third company to break completely from Tiger Woods in the wake of his epic collapse. The previous two were Accenture and AT&T. Two other sponsors have not cut contractual ties entirely, but have removed his image from ads: Swiss watch-maker Tag Heuer and razor-maker Gillette, a division of Proctor & Gamble. Two others that have stood by...
So whether someone thinks Tiger Woods’s conference was good for his image breaks down like this: Broadcasters: They are preconditioned and afraid of change. They are also beholden to the last dollar on the table. They want TV ratings to be high, and they still need Woods to show up for vanilla comments about nothing after rounds, so they won’t ask any...
It’s not what he said, but how he said it – and although Tiger Woods “apologized” it was forced, defiant, ambiguous, and most of all insincere. which means he’s still done little to rehabilitate his shattered image. “It was totally phony” said one prominent, award-winning journalist. “He only did this for endorsements...
Looks like Tiger Woods has Gloria Allred’s panties in a bunch, but just not the way he usually likes when it comes to womens’ underwear. The high-octane attorney who reps Rachel Uchitel and Joslyn James (real name Veronica Siwak-Daniels for those of you scoring at home), is holding her own press conference after Woods gets done grovelling to his wife...
People have asked me for my opinion about Tiger Woods/IMG ordering the Golf Writers Association of America to show up at Woods’s “news conference” where he’ll deliver a fake apology, but not be allowing any questions. Here it is, as part of my letter to Varten Kupelian, the president: I think the golf writers should boycott the Tiger Woods...
Sal Johnson teamed up with Robinson Holloway to write a fictional piece about Tiger Woods which claims to draw on “It’s Wonderful Life,” but really mixes in quite a bit of the ghosts from “A Christmas Story” as well:):) I have mixed feelings about the piece, but got a huge laugh out of this bit: “Eldrick’s ears are assaulted...
Hank Gola’s New York Daily news article nails down the issues in Phil Mickelson vs. Scott McCarron. From the article: “It raised the hackles of journeyman pro Scott McCarron, who blasted Lefty. “It’s cheating and I’m appalled Phil has put it in play,” McCarron told the San Francisco Chronicle. Tiger a cad? Phil a cheat? What has...
The most important person – the person who’s “temperature” the media should “take” in gauging whether Tiger Woods is really learning from this experience and is on the road to recovery – is Elin. She’s been wronged, humiliated, and followed by the paparazzi. She’s been lied to repeatedly, belittled, and watched as...