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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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      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.

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      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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