Posted on 11/28/2009 9:20:17 PM PST by Steelfish
Speak Now, Tiger, Or Forever Hold Your Peace Golfer must speak publicly about car crash — and rumors of Uchitel affair
Courtney Hazlett
When Tiger Woods got in the car just before 2:25 a.m. Friday, he didn’t just crash into a fire hydrant. He had a head-on collision with another object: the invisible bowels of the bad-publicity machine, which in more than 13 years of professional golf, he’d been able to avoid.
As a college athlete in the mid-1990s, my circle overlapped with Woods’ from time to time, and I can attest there are plenty of stories about a slightly awkward Stanford golfprodigy that could be filed under “typical college kid behavior,” or twisted into tabloid fodder.
As a fledgling journalist at Golf World magazine in the early 2000s, I can attest to similar stories of the youngest golfer to achieve a career grand slam behaving in a way that might have looked bad on paper.
But these stories never really materialized. Thrown clubs and the errant F-bombs were chalked up to pressures of the sport and apologies followed. So why has an accident in the driveway turned into a full-blown train wreck? Because much like a guy named David Letterman, up until now Woods’ public life and private persona have had few intersections, and the former has been for the most part, unimpeachable.
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Sports radio dubbed the affair, “The Tiger meets the Cougar”
Pressing criminal charges on someone for “emotional” issues has got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on this forum to date.
Wow- that’s an amazing end pic!
Damn, there goes the old ball game, guess I'll need to loan Tiger some money to fix that stuff. LOL
No, the correct answer is: “You didn’t listen the first time, did you”?
Just a joke-no offense meant.
You run with good people. I’ve been charged for guardrail posts, and friends have paid for telephone poles. If they can connect your negligence to the damage, the state or the utility will bill you or your insurance.
Said the same thing about “Sitting Bull”.
His real name was Eldrick - Tiger was a nickname.
A few years ago he changed it to Tiger permanently.
Some people have nicknames like that where it becomes their real name, like Earvin "Magic" Johnson for example.
Really!! I just learned something. I figured my tax dollars already paid for signs through DOT, since they belonged to me, I could wipe ‘em out at will! (j/k) It was something I never thought about until tonight.
My sister had an accident this week, run off the road by some Amish kids (true). The guy whose mailbox went through her windshield was mad that it wasn’t replaced the next morning. He’s called her 28 times in 4 days about it.
“Damn, there goes the old ball game, guess I’ll need to loan Tiger some money to fix that stuff. LOL”
Welllll, he might be a little short on cash before long...thanks for not asking how I knew he would have to pay...
MSNBC.com
Courtney
Hazlett
MSNBC for crying out loud.
yitbos
Not in a secular state. Maybe if our government was a theocracy, I might agree with you.
Going to MSNBC is a good thing? No thanks.
Maybe that’s it, the insurance paid for it and so it never became an issue (or the subject of conversation). However, I don’t think the police ever wanted to talk to them just because of the damage to a hydrant or sign.
There is an upside to this, at least John Daly’s self-esteem may improve.
“My sister had an accident this week, run off the road by some Amish kids (true).”
Those Amish in their souped up carriages...watch out for em...were the Amish playing mailbox derby? Don’t know about her exposure on a mailbox, especially on private property, but the sheriff will come knocking if you wipe out a public sign, pole or hydrant...don’t ask me how I know ;^)
Holding his “piece” is what got him into this mess to start with. ;)
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