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      Report: Woman hospitalized after taken from Tiger Woods’ home

      December 8, 2009 /

      In a bizarre twist of events, the Boston Herald reports that a woman after being found in Tiger Woods’ home in Windemere, Florida on Tuesday morning.

      An Orlando TV station reported EMTs responded to Woods’ home to answer a call of a middle-aged woman in distress. A woman with blond hair was seen on a stretcher, Channel 2 in Orlando and the Associated Press are showing.

      The woman was rushed to the hospital from Woods’ Deacon Circle home in Windermere, Fla., according to multiple online sources.
      The 911 call came in at 2:36 a.m. and a woman was transported soon after to Health Central Hospital as an advanced life support patient, according to multiple reports.

      That is the same hospital where Woods was taken to Nov. 27 – also after a 2:30 a.m. call – after he crashed his 2009 Cadillac Escalade into a hydrant and a tree in a neighbor’s yard cracking open a scandal that now ties him to 10 alleged mistresses – including a porn star.
      News is also breaking today that Tiger’s wife has not only moved out but also plunked down more than $2 million to buy a house back in her native Sweden, U.S. and Swedish papers report.

      Nordegren, 29, allegedly packed her bags and moved out of her home yesterday in Windermere, RadarOnline is reporting. She also reportedly purchased a house with her twin sister outside of Stockholm, the Swedish news agency HPG reports.

      Update: Apparently the unidentified woman was Woods’ mother-in-law, Barbo Holmberg.

      From Rotoworld.com:

      Yates added that Holmberg was admitted for stomach pain and remains hospitalized for observation. She is in stable condition. Health Central is located in Ocoee, Florida. It is the same hospital at which Woods was treated on Black Friday.

      Well, that makes a little more sense.


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      Golf

      SNL taking heat over Tiger Woods skit

      December 7, 2009 /

      SNL is taking a bit of heat this week for its sketch of Tiger Woods (impersonated by Kenan Thompson) and his wife Elin (played by host Blake Lively) at a press conference in which he keeps getting beat up (presumably) by his wife.

      Here’s the skit:

      The problem that some are having with the skit is that the underlying theme is about domestic violence and the musical guest that night was Rihanna, who has been a victim of domestic violence herself.

      And apparently, some didn’t even find the skit funny in general. From Popwatch.com:

      It wasn’t just unfunny, though: It was also incredibly tone-deaf. Intimate partner violence isn’t a ripe source of material in the first place, but with Rihanna as the musical star the sketch seemed even more poorly thought out. The whole joke was that Tiger Woods was lying about his wife assaulting him, with every imaginable cliché and crummy lie we’ve seen in a hundred Lifetime movies about domestic violence. It was lazy.

      Could there have been a funny bit here? Definitely. But this hypothetical funny take would need to present an actual point of view, a unique thought, or some sharp commentary. This bit suffered from both an ill-conceived problem (Tiger Woods covering up his wife assaulting him) and a total lack of transformation or change. It was a padded stand-up bit, not a fully realized sketch, which makes it really hard to forgive the poor taste of the subject matter.

      Not to sound insensitive, but I laughed several times throughout the skit. That doesn’t mean I think domestic violence is funny, because I don’t. But Woods’ incident and Rihanna’s situation are two different things and while the timing was bad, there are some comedic elements to Tiger’s ordeal, which SNL portrayed.

      Is it a double standard? Yeah. But I don’t think SNL went over the line, which some are suggesting.

      Golf, Humor, Video

      Tiger can learn from…Derek Jeter?

      December 4, 2009 /

      So says LIVING WITH BALLS…

      …one athlete who has banged a countless number of beautiful women continues to have a spotless reputation. This man is DEREK JETER. Do you know why? Because he’s NOT MARRIED.

      Any professional athlete, especially an athlete the caliber of a Tiger Woods, should NOT get married—at least not until much later in life. Derek Jeter has slept with Ms. Universe, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Mariah Carey and who knows how many other hot chicks. Only NOW, as he enters the back-end of his career is he finally starting to settle down.

      This is a good point that is often overlooked. Society pushes people to get married in their early 20s, and as our childhoods continue to drag out longer and longer, most twentysomethings aren’t mature enough to be in a relationship for the long haul. This goes triple for the professional athlete that is rich and famous and will have women throwing themselves at him as long as he’s playing.

      Chris Rock said it best — a man is only as faithful as his options. And Tiger has a lot of options.

      He is 33 years-old and should just now be thinking about settling down. Who knows if he’ll ever be capable of being faithful, but he would have had a better shot had he sowed his proverbial oats through his 20s and 30s and got it out of his system.

      Golf, MLB

      Report: Woods found shoeless, snoring in the street

      December 4, 2009 /

      According to a report by ESPN.com, Tiger Woods was found shoeless and snoring in the street when neighbors came upon him following his accident last week.

      By the time authorities arrived, Tiger Woods was on the ground outside the SUV. His wife told them she used a golf club to break open rear windows and free him.

      According to the Sentinel’s report, Harris told the FHP she was in a bedroom when she heard what she described as a “knocking sound.” Through a window, she said she could see the tail lights of a black vehicle. She awoke her brother and asked him to go outside.

      Adams saw Woods, unconscious and snoring, in the street on the passenger side of the SUV. A golf cart was next to the vehicle, with two golf clubs in it. Woods’ wife, Elin, wearing a black jogging suit, begged Adams for help, according to the report.

      “She said, ‘Can you please help me? Can you please help me?’ ” Adams said, the Sentinel reported.

      “I said ‘OK.’ I immediately just ran back to the house, got the phone, called 911, ran back out the house again to go back out there to see if she needed any assistance,” he said.

      Nothing makes sense here and these new twists don’t help bring clarity to the situation. If I didn’t know better, I would think that I was reading a script to a comedy. I can’t even begin to put together the puzzle of events that transpired that night to make sense of it all.

      Why were he and Elin out there in their car and golf carts? Why did she break the back window open to get him out of the car? Why would he wind up shoeless and asleep after the accident?

      What a bizarre freaking story.


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      Golf

      Whitlock takes aim at Pierce, Reilly and general media covering Tiger incident

      December 3, 2009 /

      Never shy with his thoughts and opinions, FOX Sports’ columnist Jason Whitlock recently took aim at sports writers Charlie Pierce and Rick Reilly for the way they’ve covered the Tiger Woods scandal.

      The article is long, so here are some excerpts on Pierce:

      Pierce’s latest offering is an I-told-you-so column. He rages that Tiger’s puritan image is phony and points out that he wrote in great detail in 1997 that Woods was a scandalous, tail-chasing hound.

      I don’t know how many rich, famous and good-looking 21-year-old athletes/men Charlie Pierce has interviewed. The ones I’ve met have all been scandalous, tail-chasing hounds. No different from the frat boys I met in college or the corner boys hustling on the block.

      Pierce should’ve opened his column by admitting he dislikes Woods and his opinion is skewed by that bias. We’re journalists. We’re supposed to be transparent. Two weeks ago on Deadspin, Pierce trashed Bill Simmons and his New York Times-bestselling book. In that hit piece, Pierce failed to mention that he tried to befriend and mentor Simmons at the beginning of the decade and that in 2002 Simmons told Pierce to go (expletive) himself. That little nugget of information would’ve been very enlightening when reading Pierce’s Deadspin take.
      I’m sharing this because it’s important for the public to know that the media act dishonestly all the time. We’re far more phony than Tiger Woods ever could be.

      And Reilly:

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