This is getting ridiculous…every five minutes someone else puts up the amount Elin will get from Tiger in divorce settlement, and everyone scrambles to relay the benediction. Then two days later the story gets debunked. So now according to multiple sources – who may ne right or just as wrong as the last bunch of bumbling chumps – she’s only...
After initial reports that Elin would get $500 million from Woods came out this morning, other media outlets are claiming the divorce settlement is actually 500 POUNDS…$750 dollars under today’s conversion rate. According to Fox News, “The golfer agreed to keep single women away from daughter Sam, three, and son Charlie, one. He can bring a new...
In a move surprising to many in the golf industry, Golf Digest will run an interview with Hank Haney in its August issue where the former swing coach for Tiger Woods opens up about his “dysfunctional” relationship with scandal-scarred fallen icon Tiger Woods. G.D. has been quiet about Woods’s troubles during the scandal, probably because Woods...
Tiger Woods repeatedly denied to the press that he was parting ways with swing coach Hank Haney – “Hank and I talk every day, so nothing’s changed,” Woods said. “According to the press I’ve fired him five times by now.” – but Hank Haney is gone. Waggle Room reported the news late last night. As usual, Ryan Ballangee is...
Tiger had a few poignant observations during his pre-tournament presser for the Players. Congratulations to Laura Hill on getting to moderate the discussion with the assembled media, (and by the way break a leg – that’s good luck – to Beth Murrison when her turn comes at the U.S. Open). “Q. How different has this comeback been for you than the...
Move over, Jesper Parnavik. Someone else wants a piece of Tiger Woods. Proving that if you’re going to kill the sacred cow, you might as well get a burger or two out of the deal, Stephen Ames fires this full broadside at him, most likely in response to that epic 9 & 8 beatdown from the Match Play “Who really cares if he comes back and kicks our...
Hat tip to Jay Busbee of Yahoo! Sports for finding Jim Nantz’s pointed comments about Tiger’s swearing and club dropping at Augusta. Here’s the crux: “If I said what he said on the air, I would be fired. I read in the USA Today and it was called “mild language.” Someone on my broadcast dismissed it as him having a camera in his...
Some news and notes sidebars: After the world made parody video after parody video, including this hilarious one of his mom saying what we all wanted to, Nike has pulled the Earl Woods ad. Nike head werewolf Phil knight liked the ad saying it got everyone talking…yeah, the same way they would if you wore your dirty wifebeater to church./ Just because we were...
It’s here after a 24-hour delay to run at Cybergolf and PGA.com. Though Golf and Woods are at a Crossroads, the Masters still Endures -Jay Flemma An irreverent wag on an internet bulletin board summed it up best: This weekend should we cure cancer, catch Osama Bin Laden, and find intelligent life on Mars, it’ll make a nice sidebar to what happens at...
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...
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...