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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...
After skipping out on the recent World Chevron Challenge, a tournament Woods was planning on hosting, Tiger has made it clear that he wants to remove himself from the spotlight until this boils down. This spotlight is indeed considerable—Tiger is far and away the highest-paid athlete in the world, with numerous endorsements like Nike and AT&T pushing him over $1 billion in career earnings. He not only is the face of the PGA Tour but also started the Tiger Woods Charitable Foundation and the Tiger Woods Learning Center. Tiger even...
...Tiger Woods cannot expect the world to record his every putt and fist pump on the golf course yet turn its head when problems arise. For someone who offers life advice to children, who aims to accomplish things in golf that no one has before, and who has the most recognizable face in sports, his personal actions and transgressions are vitally important. If he intends for fans to donate to his foundation and buy clothes from his personal line of golf apparel, he must act in appropriate ways in all aspects of his life...
...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...
Eventually, Tiger, the media, and the public will move past this drama, just as it has moved beyond the personal lives of athletes like Kobe Bryant, Ray Lewis, and Alex Rodriguez. For now, however, it will be some time before Tiger gets out of the woods...