Dave89
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Press charges against the bitch if so. Just waiting to hear how the press blame him for it if that story comes out to be true.
Sorry to disappoint those who thinks Tiger is being taken to the bunkers, his Dad saw to it that they signed a very good prenup before marrying.
People in the States are acting like they have a right to know about Tiger's private life. I will like anybody to explain to me why they think this way.
Sorry to disappoint those who thinks Tiger is being taken to the bunkers, his Dad saw to it that they signed a very good prenup before marrying.
Ummm cuz he is a celebrity.......
Being famous means you are well known.
Doesn't give anyone the right to rummage through your personal life, at all.
"The price of fame" is something tabloids have made up in order to feel no guilt about hounding these people.
Interesting that out of these three:
....only Federer has avoided controversy in recent weeks!
"Hey, it's Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you. So if you can, please take your name off that. Just have it as a number on the voicemail. Just have it as your telephone number. You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. Bye."
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.
Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means. For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives. The stories in particular that physical violence played any role in the car accident were utterly false and malicious. Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect.
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But no matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. I realize there are some who don't share my view on that. But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
Whatever regrets I have about letting my family down have been shared with and felt by us alone. I have given this a lot of reflection and thought and I believe that there is a point at which I must stick to that principle even though it's difficult.
I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology.
Pathetic that he has to justify himself, its nobody's business but his and his families. I agree with him entirely about his right to privacy, and I dare say the scummy tossers chasing him around and writing cheap stories are no moral idols.
He didn't have to justify himself, he could just have stayed completely silent on the issue, and rebuffed the press at every turn
He obviously felt the need to justify himself. And rightly so, when you've just been caught cheating on your wife!
He couldn't though, he will have been advised that this statement is the best solution. If he ignored it he would have been hounded even more, his every step followed with a microphone in his face, the same for his wife.
By releasing a statement basically admitting what he has done and apologising he gives them little room to run with the story, bringing it to an end as soon as possible. It doesn't make it right.
Yes he has done wrong, but why should we give a crap? Do you give two shits if your neighbour cheats on his wife? Is the reason Woods is famous because of his world class monogamy skills?
As you can probably tell I despise celebrity culture.
his agent just said he's fine
Nothing to see here folks.
Tiger has been a naughty boy it would seem. Six women have been identified thus far. Apparently he was rather fond of partying in Vegas with hostesses and waitresses.
Done !
Hope there was a prenup.
What a shame, he was starting to grow as a man in the public eye as his golf career reached his peak, becoming a father, and so on.
This is more tragic than Kobe.
So the media, pissed about him destroying their news, has fabricated six false testimony to continue on the Tiger witch hunt.
Don't think he'll get a divorce.
Forget Oprah or Larry King or Mike Tirico.
If Tiger Woods has more to add about the most erratic drive of his career, David Letterman is the perfect guy to interview him.
This national obsession with Woods' bedroom is a joke anyway, so why not inject some levity with a late-night comic who's an expert on infidelity?
Book ESPN's Steve Phillips as a guest. Get Michael Jordan to do the Top 10 list, "Things Cheating Men Shouldn't Say On An Answering Machine."
And the No. 1 thing cheating men shouldn't say on an answering machine ... "Will you help me improve my lie?"
Be like Mike indeed, Tiger.
Lessons from Jordan: America will forgive your imperfections the quicker you remind them you are the closest thing to perfect anybody has ever seen in your sport. And like a good golf follow-through, keep your head down and everything soon straightens out.
At golf's Presidents Cup in San Francisco two months ago, Jordan proudly identified himself as a mentor to Woods, his Nike family member. Since Tiger's father, Earl, passed away in 2006, Jordan said he had become more of a confidant who offered advice when asked.
A day after publicly apologizing might be the right time for Woods to ask Jordan how a guy who earned his reputation as a womanizer endured as a global sports icon despite the occasional dalliance made public.
"We're like big brother-little brother (and) I'm the big brother," Jordan told reporters in October. "We get on the phone and talk. When I see him struggling, when he's battling with himself a lot of times, I text him and say, 'Is everything OK?' "
Everything is not OK now that little brother and big brother have even more in common than just being the two most recognizable athletes on the planet. Woods is facing his Karla Knafel moment.
Knafel is the woman Jordan accused of extortion after their extramarital affair became public in 2002. Based on a handful of conversations Wednesday with those who covered the Jordan Bulls, if texting, Twitter or TMZ had been popular in that era, MJ might have faced more such moments.
Woods hasn't been extorted by any of the three women identifying themselves as his lovers, to our knowledge. Yet. Woods has been grouped with better foursomes.
As the dirt mounts, Jordan should get on the phone and, after asking Woods how he could be stupid enough to send 300 text messages to a mistress, tell little brother not to worry. Then instruct Woods to let the world see you pump your fist and hit a 3-wood like only you can ASAP and keep public comments as pithy as possible.
Maybe Ahmad Rashad can be located to help soften the landing.
Woods' status on the home front may change more than in the sporting landscape. As salacious as the gossip has been, this scandal shouldn't affect Woods' legacy, his earning power or his Q rating any more than Jordan's transgressions affected his. Which was minimally.
It would be naïve to suggest America will stop buying cars, sports drinks or razors Woods endorses because of a wandering putter. Just as most shrugged over Jordan's womanizing or gambling issues during the second three-peat when those bad habits were well-known by people conditioned to turn their heads, Woods' infidelity will be a foggy memory when he wins his next major. That's sports.
Woods swings a golf club for a living. There are no teammates he let down, no team code violated. Galleries, not young men, follow him. If Woods were a college football or basketball coach whose job requires leading by example, then the moral authoritarians could pounce away. But this week they would be better off wagging a finger at the White House gate-crashers than Woods the tree-crasher.
The people Woods apparently failed most, his wife and family, are the only people he owes a detailed explanation. Woods is a cliche as a pro athlete more than a disappointment as a role model. The biggest surprise is that it took this long for his carefully crafted corporate image to be smudged.
Besides Jordan, the other athlete of the same realm, Muhammad Ali, was a documented philanderer. More locally, when Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher hoisted the George S. Halas trophy after winning the NFC championship in 2006, he heard only cheers. Urlacher's custody dispute with a former stripper and his well-publicized extramarital fling with Paris Hilton had been forgiven and forgotten.
If marital fidelity were factored into how we view athletic greatness, every sports hall of fame could be reduced to a foyer. That isn't condoning that reality, just acknowledging it.
The voyeurs among us have had their peeks at Woods' worst bogey ever. It's time for everybody to play through
Just listened to the voice message he left on one of his mistresses phones...What a scumbag. There goes his image.
Please. Everybody loves the fact that this has aired. As somebody stated previously, it makes him look human, which people seem to love.
As the article I posted says, he now has the chance to make himself look like a hero. The benefit of being Tiger is the ability to have these brilliant moments which the world will lap up even more.
Cheating on his wife with several women does not make him any more human, it makes him a scumbag.