By Dan Le Batard of the Miami Herald sums up the last 36 hours of Tiger Woods news.
The news-gathering landscape has mutated so quickly and so absolutely, at once enhanced and contaminated by the immediacy of everything from texts to Twitter to TMZ, that America’s most famous athlete this weekend went from suffering a serious injury in a car accident . . . to suffering a minor injury in a car accident . . . to being “fine,” according to his agent . . . to reportedly being unfaithful to his wife . . . to maybe having his face scratched by his angry wife . . . to being rescued by his helpful wife from his crashed car with a golf club . . . to having his car smashed up by his betrayed wife and her golf club . . . to not being any kind of “fine” at all.
Not all of that can be true, obviously, but who cares?
Truth is one of the many things that gets trampled today when boring facts can’t keep up with the media’s need to feed instantly and the public’s appetite to be fed faster than that.
Actually sports celebrity news bores me. I blogged about the news of Woods accident but refrained on speculating about its cause. That kind of restraint is not normal in either the news business or blogging now. I rather not make a fool out of myself by talking about 2nd or 3rd hand error prone news.
If someone wants to make the case I’m a fool, there’s over 4 years of blog posts out on the internet ready and waiting for them.
4:26 pm on November 29th, 2009 1
I love playing golf, but if it ever comes on TV I can't change the channel fast enough. I've cursed CNN many times because of its pandering to the golf/status crazy segment of its viewership.
5:05 pm on November 29th, 2009 2
We more or less know what happened to this guy. He married the wrong woman and got caught with one of his many consorts. His wrong woman beat his ass and now he has to stay holed up for awhile, pun intended.
5:18 pm on November 29th, 2009 3
The girls he is allegedly having an affair with is rumored to be the one from that famous picture from 9/11.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/977728/mistress-…
No that you'd know by looking at her now…
http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/prime-mover-r…
12:09 am on November 30th, 2009 4
What?? investigate a black man?? no way, that would be illegal, right.. or half-black man, that is. from woods on down to obama. America has sold out… or are we a country of complete fools. electing a president who spent decades of his life worshipping with, and in fact, possibly idolizing, a supposed man of the cloth who professes: 'god-damn America," and other extreme racist views. yet, we idolize the 'rock-star' personality and buy into the bullshit.
what a double standard..oh, hell no, we will not be investigated by the FL HP… just go away and leave us alone. oh, ok Tiger, whatever you say… what a crock of shit our country has become. any white celeb or athlete would have been fried for snorking coke or being stoned or exposed for being in the company of whoever the female was… but no, not a black (or half-black) man… that would be exploitation and racism…. get real American… before it's too late.. actually, it may already be too late.
10:37 am on November 30th, 2009 5
…"What are you gonna do when you go from her to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics, okay? Dialectic logic is, there's only love and hate. You either love somebody or you hate 'em."
11:15 am on November 30th, 2009 6
I had to look up the above quote. I think I see your point.
12:23 pm on November 30th, 2009 7
"look at this f ing sh we're in man. Na na, I'm not gonna help you, your gonna help him man. What are they gonna say when he's gone?"
No. Since it seems obvious what happened, I really don't care.
Was it a four iron or a seven that she used on him — I mean the car.
8:13 am on December 1st, 2009 8
Senior, I did not realize that Charlie Sheen had been fired from "two and a half men". Or that Brad Pitt was fired from "Mr and Mrs. Smith" for having an affair with Angelina Jolie back in 06'.
9:15 pm on December 4th, 2009 9
I don't feel sorry for Tiger Woods, he is just another over-paid sportsman. Ok, so the kid can hit a golf ball like no-one else, but does that make him a saint? I think some people are being too soft on Tiger, if he has cheated on his wife and betrayed his family then he deserves a bit of bad publicity. It seems that most of the sports blogs listed online at the sports index Dozensports.com are being too nice. Why can't we say bad stuff about Tiger?
http://www.dozensports.com
9:16 pm on December 4th, 2009 10
I don't feel sorry for Tiger Woods, he is just another over-paid sportsman. Ok, so the kid can hit a golf ball like no-one else, but does that make him a saint? I think some people are being too soft on Tiger, if he has cheated on his wife and betrayed his family then he deserves a bit of bad publicity. It seems that most of the sports blogs listed online at the sports index Dozensports.com are being too nice. Why can't we say bad stuff about Tiger?
11:55 pm on December 4th, 2009 11
Maby it's a "PC" thing.
If Obama pulled a JFK/MM thing, do you think it would get press time?
ClimateGate hasn't.
4:45 am on December 5th, 2009 12
We must not be reading the same blogs, sports websites, and newspapers…because he's getting plenty of bad publicity.
And oh by the way…a fourth woman (in Orlando) is now claiming that she had an affair with Tiger Woods.
8:44 am on December 5th, 2009 13
Horney little tiger
Of course, now it is going to be a stampede for the money.
He will be milked like a cow by as many "women" as can grab an udder.
He deserves it. He should have known better. Known better than to marry!
Money and marriage is like drinkin and drivin. Sometimes you make it home.
Most of the time you get busted or worse.
7:35 pm on December 5th, 2009 14
Ok, so he is getting more bad publicity, but there are also huge amount of blogs that immediately jumped to his support. As if he can do no wrong. The point is Tiger was, until now, almost untouchable.
12:56 am on December 6th, 2009 15
It is now being reported that SIX (6) women were "touching" our sweet little tiger.
Of course this is Fox News, not the blogs.