The Daily News and New York Post report on the details – sans names – of Dr. Galea giving out Actovegin and HGH. At least 23 pro athletes — most of them NFL and MLB players — are suddenly petrified. “ESPN has now obtained documents relating to Galea out of Canada, and while there are no names in the documents, this is the kind of thing...
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…”
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...
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...
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...
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...
Details have emerged about that fateful which ultimately sent Tiger Woods into sex rehab, and a bad-look-alike out in a mis-guided effort to throw the media off the trail. (Boy, wasn’t that just Gaffe-tastic! Thanks for the laughs!) According to the Daily News, Woods broke the news to Elin that the National Enquirer story about he and Rachel Uchitel would be...
Georgina Littlejohn of the U.K. tabloid Daily Mail writes explosive allegations of sex and cover up regarding a newly discovered mistress of Tiger Woods. British mother of two Emma Rotterham was reportedly paid $500,000. for silence about their affair, but refused to surrender her cell phone to the Team Woods flunkies who delivered the cash to a secret location in...
Nicely done, Ryan. Doug Barron not only proclaims his innocence, but demands greater transparency in the PGA Tour’s testing and punishments. We join in that request, except of course for Tim Finchem, who – in one of the biggest frauds in steroids testing history – surrendered his own dweeb-infused specimen, presumedly because he’s a shoo-in to...
The first legitimate news outlet has finally reported conclusively that they believe Tiger Woods is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for sex addiction recovery and treatment at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, one of the nation’s top treatment centers. The Orlando Sentinel quoted two TV Broadcasting sources in their story, which was previously...
They had everything: money, fame, fans, trophies, and glory. It was their world, we just lived in it. Then they gave it all back with acts of supreme hubris. They have met the enemy…in the mirror. Sure, Tiger Woods’s fall from grace may have been the swiftest collapse from the highest pedestal, but let’s look at some more men and women who ruled the...
Accenture has replaced Tiger Woods with a surfing elephant in ads around the world. The New York Daily News reports the switch. Woods replaced by a surfing elephant? That’s reedonkyoulous… In a related matter, stocks of companies using Woods are treading water after significant initial losses. Finally Lawrence Donagan reports, (with a hat tip to Tom...
Boy talk about Haterade, this weekend, a Denver TV station broke the story that some creative, irreverent wag replaced Tiger Woods Gatorade bottles marked “Focus” with the label “Unfaithful.” Now we hear that the FDA doesn’t think the switch is funny, but a dangerous breach of security, and is investigating. I understand the concern. The...