If he can stop Rachel Uchitel he has a chance.
As hard as Tiger Woods and Nike try to contain and control the spin on Woods' return to golf, the tighter the controls, the more rabid the media will become.
Woods will "speak to a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates," Friday morning at 10:00 central time, and
it will be carried live by every broadcast network with the possible exception of The Soap Opera Network.
Woods won't take any questions, won't
sort of.
Woods, who has spent his entire career carefully shaping his image while restricting personal access, has announced that he will will meet with
some members of the press.
On Friday Woods will meet with "small group of friends, colleagues and close associates" as well as hand-picked media members about his past transgressions.
Woods' agent says the golfer will end his three months of silence in front of selected representatives of
As the Tiger Woods Sex Scandal tries to answer the question,
"Will Tiger reach 18 Majors or 18 Mistresses First?" the golf world has to contemplate exactly
how hard will his self-induced sabbatical hurt the game.
Courtesy of
Sport's with Mr. Factoid.
Before this shot, I would have said my richochet off the 150 pole that hit my playing partner right on the knee cap was better. But this is unreal.
While Roger Federer was winning a record 15th Grand Slam Tennis title at Wimbledon, Tiger Woods was winning his own golf tournament, the AT&T National. He was also
getting slightly better TV ratings.
Woods continues to be a ratings goldmine for the PGA Tour. The 4.6 rating for Sunday's final was
207% higher than last year's final round when Tiger was out after knee surgery.
Federer's five-set win over Andy Roddick pulled a 4.2 overnight
I've never played a round of golf. I've never even played a hole of golf. I grew up literally two blocks from a public course, but I never set foot on it other than to fish and catch frogs in its pond. I don't watch golf either. I don't even read about golf.
But I do know that golf is not football. Not in Texas. Not ever.
So I'm reading a
column by what I
Dedfischer, our favorite Texas Tech jackanape, has written a glorious essay on
The Golf Prick. Read it.
I have a complex relationship with Golf Pricks, as I have a few friends who are confirmed GPs, and it appears that we've
allowed some of them into Barking Carnival, but that doesn't prevent me from subjecting them to withering abuse at their choice in wardrobe, their tendency to
The followers of a dude named Christ have Christmas and Easter. The practitioners of JC's own religion have Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Islam has Ramadan. Hindus have Karva Chauth, Dhan Teras, Deepavali minor, and Deepavali major. Zoroastrians have the feast for the coming together of all souls Hamaspathmaidyem Gahambar. Buddhists celebrate Vesak
TRADITIOOON, tradition.
The General has The Masters.
Like the Communion Wafer and the Latke, there is an
