Tiger Woods is coming back for the Masters. He released a statement an hour ago stating his much-anticipated return to Golf will be at Augusta. (Great, now everyone can ignore the Bay Hill. NBC weeps.) Tiger Woods posed with the Orlando Magic dancers for a photo in March of 2007. By all accounts, Tiger has an affinity for blondes – it is safe to say that some media outlet will track down the names of the three blondes here, and contact them to … chat about Eldrick? [photo via Simmons]
Elin Woods couldn't ride in the ambulance on Thanksgiving night because responders thought that Tiger was the victim of domestic violence. Man, I'm telling you, Tiger needs to get out of this abusive relationship. Since there's nothing much to add to this "duh" story, Parks and Rec had a great Tiger reference last night. I love that show. (USA Today) (12)
Another report from SI’s Richard Deitsch, who attended Howard Stern’s Tiger Woods mistress beauty pageant. Great photo below. [Hot Clicks]
Donald Sterling: “The biggest embarrassment ever under the NBA commissioner’s watch, as pitiful and pathetic of an owner sports has ever seen.” Wow. [Woj] Read the rest of this entry »
Jamie Jungers – the blonde in the four photos on the right – edged out Jaimee Grubbs in the Tiger Woods beauty pageant on the Howard Stern show today. Jungers’ pocketed $75,000. Loredana Jolie Ferriolo, the only one of the trio who Tiger wore a condom with, finished third. Read the rest of this entry »
Direction of Sports Journalism: "Because survival is the strongest instinct, in humans and in business, sports journalism is being forced to evolve into selling its principles and fairness (its soul, in other words) in exchange for clicks and cash, a trafficking not that far removed from porn ... It is either that or lose money and ratings and eyeballs to people who don't make any kind of moral stand. The mainstream media might have wanted to stay out of the TMZ-ization of the Tiger Woods story on principle, but it literally couldn't afford to do so because viewers were going to go find it somewhere. Show me the restaurant that tells you what you should be eating, instead of giving you what you want to consume, and I'll show you an empty restaurant." [Miami Herald] (20)
Every week The Sports Hernia and Cousins of Ron Mexico will recap the top five stories of the week. They are listed by importance, humor and relevance with a high degree of historical perspective in mind. Mostly, we’ll be reviewing the stuff TBL has run into the ground over the last few days, but sometimes a story slips through the cracks. Or some third reason allowing us to bring up something pointless. Read the rest of this entry »
Tiger Woods: "But almost every other widely reported aspect of Tiger's tale rests on a wobbly foundation, unsupported by on-the-record sourcing, official documentation or direct observation--that is, the methods that journalists are supposed to employ to separate fact from speculation and substance from gossip. Much of what was reported relied instead on supposition, guesswork and innuendo, often sourced back to problematic stories like the News of the World's Lawton story or online reports of dubious provenance." [American Journalism Review] (52)
Bill Simmons and Rick Reilly did a podcast. There was none of the simmering tension and jealousy everyone wanted, just two guys who aren’t best friends being polite. They discussed what all middle-aged white men who make “ridonkulous” money discuss, Tiger Woods’ sex scandal.
Tiger's Caddy: "Of course I'm mad at him, why would you not be? I'm close with his wife and he's got two lovely children and he's let them down ... every single person believed that I should know or did know or had something to do with it. I knew nothing, that's my answer. I don't have to clarify or extend that answer, I knew nothing. It would be very difficult as a caddie not to know but I'm 100 percent telling you, I did not know, and that's that. I'm a straight-up sort of person. If I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown." [60 Minutes New Zealand] (40)
Mike Francesa was on a panel of sports industry professionals last night at a New York University-hosted discussion on the role of the sports in society. As all such panels must, this too had an ominously vague title: “Sports in America: The Power of Sports in our Society.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tiger Woods is coming back for the Masters. He released a statement an hour ago stating his much-anticipated return to Golf will be at Augusta. (Great, now everyone can ignore the Bay Hill. NBC weeps.) Tiger Woods posed with the Orlando Magic dancers for a photo in March of 2007. By all accounts, Tiger has an affinity for blondes – it is safe to say that some media outlet will track down the names of the three blondes here, and contact them to … chat about Eldrick? [photo via Simmons]
