We’ve never been here before…maybe not in any sport since the Black Sox…Tiger’s scandal has golf entering the Twilight Zone. From the article:
“But the shock of Tiger possibly being gravely hurt was coupled with even more puzzling news: it was a one-car crash which occurred at 2:15 in the morning, hours after Thanksgiving, as he was leaving his house. Although his status was quickly upgraded to “good condition” and we heard he was back home, concern for Tiger was tempered with a gnawing fear: what was he doing leaving the house at that hour? As sportswriter Phil Mushnick once humorously asked, “When do you ever hear about good erupting at 2 a.m.?”
But while the general public was perplexed, perhaps fearful for what they might hear, a handful of well-connected golf writers knew the answer. They were aware of another story about Tiger and, already afraid of the ramifications of what they knew privately, their alarm grew to terror with the accident report. The watershed story for pro golf in the 21st Century thus far was not the accident of Tiger Woods, but a story filed a day earlier on the website of the National Enquirer: Woods and New York City event planner and party hostess Rachel Uchitel were allegedly having an affair, connecting with one another in Australia, Las Vegas, and New York. The story was also referenced on-line by “athlebrity” gossip site SportsbyBrooks.com, and The Huffington Post.
And for those three hours, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., sportswriters across the country waited to see if someone in the mainstream media or sports-writing world would connect the two stories. ”
I get Mushnick and Gola in this one…
