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bhelmLSU Founding Member Staff Member

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He is doing the right thing now by doing what is necessary to keep the family together but his wife will have his Pro V1s for the rest of his life.

bhelmLSU, Dec 13, 2009

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Tiger plays Nike's. :wave:

COTiger, Dec 13, 2009

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COTiger said: ↑

Tiger plays Nike's. :wave:
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Just wouldn't have worked in my statement. :grin:

I am sure he cheats on the Nike's a little during practice too.

bhelmLSU, Dec 13, 2009

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Probably plays a Callaway every now and then.

Looking at some of the pictures he's played some range balls also.

COTiger, Dec 13, 2009

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I'd never let a post go out looking like that.
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I know how badly it was bothering you so I fixed it for ya... now you have more time to watch some more Obama speeches and admire your holiday tree.

GregLSU, Dec 13, 2009

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Another one bites the dust.

According to the Wall Street Journal, consulting giant Accenture PLC will end its lucrative sponsorship of Tiger Woods, telling the newspaper that Woods is "no longer the right representative for its advertising" after the "circumstances of the last two weeks." Accenture had sponsored Woods for over 6 years.
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Accenture Drops Tiger Woods Liveshots

COTiger, Dec 13, 2009

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bayareatiger If it's too loud YOU'RE TOO OLD

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Well written article about the media's complicity in the issue.

Yahoo Sports said:

Tiger Woods in the news: tabloid reveleations and blind eyes

By Jay Busbee

As we wind down from TigerCrashGate -- yes, it's true, we're almost done, at least until he returns to the course -- it's worth taking a look at the way that this story spiraled from one-car hydrant-bump to worldwide scandal, one whose cost will eventually be measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Here's the key question to all of this: did we need to know about Tiger Woods' secret, off-the-course life? Many argue that this is an unforgivable invasion of a family's privacy, that we're interested in Tiger Woods as a golfer, not as a family man. As long as he keeps sinking long putts on Sunday afternoons, who cares what he does later that evening?

But that just-golf-it mindset doesn't account for the fact that Woods is not "just a golfer," he's the public face of an entire corporation. What he does on his own time is not his own business, not when his actions can do financial harm to those who have invested hundreds of millions in his image. That financial impact, not the "more mistresses or more majors?" question, is the real story here.

Still, the reason why this scandal exploded the way it did is because Woods' secret dealings were allowed to continue unabated, whether intentionally or unintentionally. The more Woods got away with his misdeeds, the bolder -- and stupider -- he got. (Leaving your name on a voicemail? Sending texts from your own phone? Really, Tiger?)

Part of this is surely because of the coverage bubble that Woods enjoyed for all of his career, a bubble that was born fully formed in Gary Smith's absurdly over-the-top introduction/sanctification of Woods in a legendary 1996 Sports Illustrated article entitled "The Chosen One." The see-no-evil approach to Tiger then dominated the golf media for more than a decade, partly because everyone was so in awe of Woods, and partly because Woods would cut off any access to any media outlet daring to poke around the edges of the mystique.

Did Tiger Woods have everyone fooled? Did the golf media know about Tiger's affairs and cover them up? Did everyone just happen to look the other way at the proper time? Those are questions that each media member will have to answer for him- or herself, but here's one huge clue: there are several golf media members who have not written a single word about this, the biggest story to hit golf in decades. Why? Well, you'd have to ask them, but it's a fair bet that they're setting themselves up as good guys when Tiger eventually does return. ("See, Tiger? All those other guys piled on, but I didn't! I'm still your pal!") On the flip side, credit longtime golf writers like Steve Elling who actually did call out Woods, knowing full well that they'll find that next one-on-one interview that much tougher -- if not impossible -- to secure.

Many in the golf media got completely outplayed on this story because of their insistence that it was no golf story at all, it was nothing but celebrity garbage, tawdry trash-digging that was beneath them. And again, if it was nothing but the personal affairs of a private family, that would be true. But Tiger's absence from the Tour is going to cost people and corporations hundreds of millions of dollars and fundamentally alter the game of golf for the short term -- so, yeah, that very much is a golf story.

Journalists who complain that the tabloids were setting the agenda in this story should have been practicing a little shoe-leather journalism themselves. After the initial revelation on the day before Thanksgiving that Rachel Uchitel was somehow involved with Woods, it was a blogger who trumped the mainstream media and first contacted her. In the absence of comments from Team Tiger, the tabloids filled in the gaps, and despite their "bat boy/UFO abduction" rep, were on the whole more accurate than not. (Tiger's admission of "infidelities" plural is a testament to that.)

There were some notable missteps on the tabloids' part. The RadarOnline.com story about Elin Woods moving out proved to be completely groundless, even though many outlets picked it up and ran with it. (We decided not to here because of the flimsiness of the sources.) More significantly, the Life & Style story about two professional golfers calling out Woods turned out to be an utter falsehood; we had decided to mention it here because there was on-the-record attribution, not "unnamed sources." Surely, we figured, no magazine would be foolish enough to print actual names without verifying. Wrong. Lesson learned -- and that's an aspect of this story that deserves further scrutiny.

This is not to defend the tabloids' approach to celebrity -- they look at stars the way that the rest of us look at a Thanksgiving turkey right out of the oven -- but their dogged method of running down a story does indeed have its merits. (Paying interview subjects is not one of them, nor is publishing articles without bylines.) Still, if other journalists were similarly unconcerned about their future access to their subjects, they'd be able to uncover some secrets on topics more important than celebrities' sex lives.

For now, though, the Tiger story has reached a natural stopping point. We can take some time over the holidays to breathe deep, stop wondering about how many more mistresses will come out of the woodwork, and -- thank you, heaven -- stop hearing lame Tiger jokes.

The old Tiger Woods is gone. The new one -- well, we haven't met him yet. But he won't be on the same celebrity-worship pedestal as the old guy ... and, all in all, that's probably for the best.
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bayareatiger, Dec 13, 2009

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Now, if we could just get Obama to start screwing around.:hihi:

SabanFan, Dec 13, 2009

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bayareatiger If it's too loud YOU'RE TOO OLD

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SabanFan said: ↑

Now, if we could just get Obama to start screwing around.:hihi:
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I'm thinkin' if that ever happened the First Lady would probably pop a cap in his @ss.

She seems a little more feisty than Elin...

But I just gotta think there's a black Monica Lewinsky out there... :hihi:

bayareatiger, Dec 13, 2009

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LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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Tiger needs to pack her bags for her. We obviously still don't know what happened during the crash. Either Elin smacked him with a club and along with being on ambien he crashed, but it seems more and more women keep coming out of the Woods :hihi: saying they have been with Tiger. Elin is going to make his life so miserable.

He will be watching TV and she will come in, "what, bet you f*cked her too, didn't you."

Little story, i have been with my wife for 4 years, married for 1. Our first date was in Denton Texas, we were going to see a friend of mine's band, and we stopped to eat at JJ's pizza (anyone who lives near there, needs to eat pizza there, its great.) and a woman came up to us and started talking to us, and her breasts were hanging out of her shirt, and i peeked, and she saw me do it. She still brings that up to this day, and probably will until we die.

Run for the hills Tiger.

LaSalleAve, Dec 14, 2009

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