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Evidently, traditional fans got their panties in a twist yesterday because I insinuated (in a commentary on Lance Armstrong) that the rise in Golf’s popularity over the past decade had more to do with interest in Tiger Woods than in the game itself. It so happens that I’ve been getting under their skin for just as long. The… Read more.
Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he has undergone a successful microdiscectomy for a pinched nerve that has been hurting him for several months… The procedure was successful, but Woods will be unable to play in the Masters Tournament, instead requiring rest and rehabilitation for the next several weeks… The goal is for Tiger to resume… Read more.
Tiger knows better than anyone that he will not be able to fully redeem his professional reputation until he wins another five Majors (i.e., from among the Masters in April, U.S. Open in June, British Open in July, and PGA Championship in August). (“Tiger Won…Finally,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 5, 2011) It’s an indication of… Read more.
With his eighth win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Monday, Tiger Woods finally reclaimed the world No. 1 ranking he lost four years ago. No doubt you recall that his downfall began in the wake of a sensational bimbo eruption that destroyed his marriage and sapped him of the aura of invincibility that was… Read more.
The White House press corps is being quite properly ridiculed for throwing a hissy fit over President Obama’s decision to ban correspondents from covering his round of golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday. But Ed Henry, president of the White House Correspondents Association, is doing his best to defend their whining: This isn’t about a… Read more.
[W]inning tournaments in his inimitable fashion is the only way to eradicate bacchanalian images of his private life from public consciousness – even if not from the tabloids. And only this will give his understandably spooked corporate sponsors the cover they need to feature him as their spokesman once again. When I wrote the above… Read more.
Winning tournaments in his inimitable fashion is the only way now to eradicate images of his bacchanalian private life from public consciousness. And only this will give his understandably spooked corporate sponsors – who dropped him like a hot potato – the cover they need to feature him as their spokesman once again… In any… Read more.
If I’m not mistaken, Vanity Fair is the first mainstream publication to name Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley as the philandering role models who led Tiger astray. Here’s what it reports in this respect – as a sidebar on a multi-page spread of his mistresses – in this month’s issue: When Tiger showed up in Vegas, he was… Read more.
[Author’s note: The saga of Tiger as cheetah has become such a cultural phenomenon that even the most inane and innocuous tidbits about it are still leading the evening news. But after refraining for the past two weeks from participating in this gloating, prurient frenzy, I decided that his seminal statement on Friday about taking… Read more.
As a practicing attorney, I am all too mindful of the ease with which the public can access private information about anyone these days. In fact, this was demonstrated with poignant irony a few years ago when a blogger trolled Goggle’s own archives to find out all kinds of private information about its CEO Eric Schmidt. Frankly,… Read more.
