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...
Avid golf fans are more often likely to get unbiased golf news from U.K. writers, as they are nowhere near as enamored with Woods across the pond as we are in America. Woods’s misbehavior on and off the course has been called out time and again by foreign writers, and they certainly don’t engage in the insane hagiographic hero worship many domestic...
You can tell the presser…err…pressure…is getting to Tim Finchem. He was downright snippy with the media, taking an almost scandalized tone that they would even dare to ask difficult questions about steroids or conduct detrimental to the PGA Tour. Alex Miceli has this article laying out the entire back and forth with the scribes. “Question:...
While Jay is still out on a combination of bereavement and sick leave, the two best reads of the day are from Steve Elling of CBS Sports and the Daily News Team. Jay does have some comments at the end of this piece, and sends his best, and thanks everyone for their support, love, prayers, and concern. He’s deeply grateful, and hopes to return full-time by the...
The New York Post has included a “Tiger Woods’s Babes 2010 Calendar” in today’s paper. It seems as though they are the first to get the idea to the presses. Meanwhile, the MSM and blogs are all agog over Annie Liebowitz’s photos of Woods for an embarrassingly bad Vanity Fair article by Buzz Bissenger. Here’s the Daily News’s...
From AWITP Guest Staff Reports filed while Jay is away on bereavement leave The National Enquirer plans on publishing photos of Tiger Woods embracing a mistress in its January 11, 2010 issue. The Enquirer announcement, which has now been picked up by mainstream news outlets can be found here. From the article: “TIGER WOODS has been caught by a security camera...
AT&T dumps Tiger, but how much has this all really cost? by Jay Busbee “As the worst year of his life drew to a close, Tiger Woods got one last kick in the teeth on New Year’s Eve when AT&T announced it would no longer be sponsoring Tiger Woods. AT&T joins Accenture as companies cutting ties with Woods in the wake of his revelations of...
By Tony Korologos, Hooked On Golf Blog, Salt Lake City First, my thoughts and prayers go out to Jay and his family. I’m honored to sit in a little while Jay is away. I’d love to come up with some great piece for my guest writing here, but I can’t compete with Jay in the art of writing so I won’t even try. Breaking news Tiger Woods has...
New Details Disclosed by the Florida Highway Patrol Make the Tiger Scandal More Baffling by Stephanie Wei, New York City “Apparently the whole Tiger Woods accident story hoax, which the 92-year-old retired columnist Furman Bisher (or Busher according to the WESH) innocently posted, has triggered the unearthing of new information from the Florida Highway Patrol...
by Brian Keogh – Dublin Ireland: “Press Was Just Waiting for Woods Mistake says Sergio” “Tiger Woods doesn’t have many friends these days but he has found a kindred spirit in Sergio Garcia. The Spaniard, who will celebrate his 30th birthday on 9 January, preferred to concentrate on the press coverage of the Tiger Woods fiasco than the...
I’m hearing the rumblings already: Woods is going to try to brazen it out when he returns. He’ll give a quick mea culpa, claim he went to unspecified rehab, and then try to act like nothing happened, cloaking himself in piety and offense that we won’t forgive him freely. Well Steve Elling says sell crazy to the tourists, we have no call for it. No...
“Don’t you know who Tiger Woods’s image is?! Well Phillip Maddocks does, and he has the Onion-esque interview with Tiger’s image. Tiger Woods’ image, under siege for the last month, took the unprecedented step of urging the public and high-paying business clients to stop confusing its ethically and athletically pure marketing persona...
A Dallas firm specializing in celebrity research and promotion has empiric data showing Tiger’s fall as a trusted pitchman to be the fastest and worst in history. From the article: “Tiger Woods may still be the world’s greatest golfer, but almost no one wants to be him or trusts him or likes him. His value as an advertising pitchman is pretty much...
There’s a great old insult I like to use: “Well they say genius skips a generation, so your kids should be brilliant.” It’s not true in the Jenkins family though. Sally, already red-hot after her hilarious parodic send-up of a Tiger press release, now pulls out a 9-iron and give Tiger a shot in the chops almost as hard as Elin did. From the...
Writers for the Boston Herald and the Orlando Sentinel have joined the rallying cry for an investigation into the links between Dr. Galea and Tiger Woods. From the article, the meat and potatoes: “The PGA Tour, for once in its life, should be proactive on an issue involving performance-enhancing drugs. Commissioner Tim Finchem should immediately announce a full...