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Last weekend on Saturday Night Live, NBC drove Tiger Woods hard. In a skit, faux Tiger and wife Elin held a press conference, which got interrupted after a surprised Elin heard Tiger admit he had made "multiple transgressions." The shot cut away, but then Tiger returned, arm in a sling, claiming that he accidentally fell down a flight of stairs and "launched [himself] through a plate-glass window." The audience chuckled. In the Weekend Update segment, Seth Meyers teed Tiger up, noting that his sponsors were sticking with him, "a gesture that only means one thing - women don't watch...
...Golf Channel, whose very existence can be credited to Woods, is similarly skirting the issue. "We had news reporters all over the place on Friday [Nov. 27, the day when Woods' car accident went public] and Saturday and Sunday and Monday," says Tom Stathakes, programming chief for the Golf Channel. "But I'm not in the business of talking about 10 of Tiger's girlfriends...
...this fair? Is it fair that Saturday Night Live fired some cheap shots at Tiger and his wife in a recent skit, or that football halftime shows joked at the prospect of Tiger’s wife attacking him with a golf club? The answer, unfortunately for Tiger, is yes. Having chosen to live a public life, Tiger knows full well that his profession will televise his weekly tournaments, and that commercials, logos, and billboards will print his face all over the world. His public status therefore includes a loss of privacy; though none of this is a legal matter...
...been shut out since Nov. 17, 2007, and had beaten Harvard in the team’s previous five meetings—including in the 2004 and 2005 National Championships. But it couldn’t get the puck past Crimson senior goaltender Christina Kessler on Friday and Saturday...
Raty lived up to the billing, making 39 saves against the Crimson on Saturday, and only letting the puck past her on one shot all weekend, with the lone score coming from Harvard junior Liza Ryabkina...