Tiger Woods car/life crash

One of Woods' alleged mistresses, Jamie Jungers, appearead on a U.S. morning television show today to claim that Woods had broken her hearat.

Her hearat shaped box more like, amirite?

my advice: get a divorce, show some class man damn

Why can't he love his wife? Maybe he likes/liked this life. Fuck around but come back to his wife. And of course the partner most probably never really accepts this. But maybe some marriages can work this way. I mean, I'm not saying I'm like this nor would I accept this, but I can sort of understand some marriages are like this or could work like this.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, December 11, 2009 1:34 AM (7 hours ago)

if he got drunk and banged a couple of girls on the side once or twice, maybe i could buy that, but this was calculated. plus the whole "no condoms" thing makes me think he doesn't give a shit about himself or his wife w/r/t STDs.

show some class man damn

Uh, bit late for that perhaps

each day is born anew

He should team up with Susie Bright and do a podcast about non-monogamy.

He should team up with Kanye West and do an 808 & Heartbreak/Here, My Dear breakup album.

I couldn't believe it when I saw Tiger had an injunction against the UK media. Bound to be a shitstorm in media/legal circles over that.

injunction here

how does the injunction cover internet message boards based in the uk?

tigers real name is Eldrick????

Eldrick Tiger "El Dick" Woods iirc

I don't know how this works. The whole thing looks a total mess to me - an order against 'persons unknown', identified only by what they might do, in relation to things which may not exist, and the content of which order cannot be revealed except by Tiger and his lawyers? I see it was issued by Mr Justice Eady, who has acquired a name for himself with previous injunctions and libel things.

(the injunction is England & Wales only though, and ILX is based in the US I think (or is it Canada?), so at least you should be fine, should you happen to be the possessor of the snaps in question)

I think the Avatar embargo would prevent them from being posted.

because of the wang

In the latest bombshell in the Tiger Woods story, Jamie Jungers told Meredith Vieira this morning on Today that Tiger fully pursued her, that they were like “girlfriend and boyfriend” and that he didn’t try to hide her.

During the year-and-a-half relationship, he only mentioned wife Elin Nordegren one time. According to Jamie, Tiger made no effort to hide her: They went out to restaurants, they went out together, and they were even photographed together.

As for allegations she was paid for sex, Jamie said she actually never took money from Tiger, and that the reason they broke up was that Tiger wouldn’t help her when she had financial troubles. What’s more, Jamie says couldn’t be with someone who wouldn’t help her out in that way. Still, she said all she got from the relationship was “a broken heart.”

wait... but... I... ?_?

http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2009/12/11/tiger-woods-alleged-mistress-jamie-jungers-is-set-to-tell-all-on-the-today-show/

I still can't believe that I only just found out Tiger's real name is Eldrick Tont Woods. I just thought his folks had given him a silly name... :)

important eldrick woods related post http://lyfesrsli.tumblr.com/post/268000299/eldrick-woods

yeah, whenever jim rome referred to tiger as "eldrick" i just thought it was a goofy dungeonmaster nickname

Sportscenter guys used to occasionally refer to the Detroit Eldricks...

I have to admit that, were my given names Eldrick Tont, I too might try to fill the fathomless hole in my soul with a never ending assmbly line of skank poontang.

that poor girl. bet she had to cover half the check at dinner, too

have to admit my head's still spinning trying to unpack that one

It's above all really, really stupid of Tiger.

I think we should just all him Baldrick from now on.

*Call

I wouldn't recommend that a celebrity wantonly fuck around regardless of their proclivities because of the possible media-enhanced blow-back, but if you do, try not to be a total dick to your shagbuddies. I'm sure he felt he was being shaken down, and perhaps he was, but jeeze, dude, use your upper brain for a second or two and don't leave the lady with little other option than to sell her tell-all.

Would someone please shop Tiger's head onto Baldrick or Tony Richardson's onto Tiger when he's doing one of the two-handed fist pumps, please.

It's above all really, really stupid of Tiger.

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White),

Stupidity born out of boredom, would be my guess.

Celebrity isolation, entitlement magnified by the constant ass-tonguing he gets from lick-spittles and hangers-on, and, doubtless, a certain desire to just be a kind of regular dude. To be fair, though, his reputation for quickly and artfully getting in the hole remains intact.

Would have thought the UK injunction to stop the whole Kir$+y G4ll4gh3r story.

"is to stop", even.

you know who's coming out of this looking awesome? is Elin, is who:

It also emerged last night that Tiger is in hiding after one of his TEETH was broken when furious wife Elin hurled a mobile phone at him

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2765656/Shamed-golfer-Tiger-Woods-alleged-to-have-lost-a-tooth-in-row.html#ixzz0ZQDFoVOx

Haven't they known each other for ages?

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The Sun is awesome. On the same page they say that his wife is going back home and also say that she's staying in the marriage. Wtf?

Having experienced the diluted version of Scandinavian passive-aggression growing up, I'm surmising she's just not going to make it easy for him.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/11/sports/AP-GLF-Tiger-Woods.html?hp

I think this entire debacle is an epic fail / terribly sad on so many levels. He's an idiot, but wow...

he typically takes december and january off anyway so this is strictly pr

Christmas just got cancelled at Tim Finchem's house.

lol i can't wait for bill simmons' inevitable, "buddy if you have to cheat, cheat like this!" column w/a point-by-point list of protips from his vegas buddies.

tiger woods is gone off the golf because of you

(i wanted to revive the marissa m. thread but it was LOCKED BY AN ADMIN)

maybe, but it's hard to be the face of Accenture when you're a punchline

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Accenture first sponsor to cut ties with Woods: http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-tigerwoods-accenture&prov=ap&type=lgns

Neat bit written here by a local columnist:

http://www.peteramescarlin.com/node/70

...More than a man, more than the vast majority of professional athletes, he has become a projection: The embodiment of all the dreams, fantasies and fears we have for ourselves.

It’s virtually the only life Woods has ever had. Which may be why he has been so successful at using his own media persona as a combination shield, power source and marketing device. Just as he does on the golf course, he’s played all the angles, breezes, hills and hazards to his own advantage. The only trap he never anticipated was how his own ability to focus on himself could work against him. And once it did, how quickly the media narrative can pivot from unquestioning adulation to unrelenting contempt...

there was a man in the train today with a sign that said "defend tiger"

'lion cheetah tiger' still the best pun we've gotten out of this.

“We build people up just to rip them apart,” said Dr. Lee Wilkins, who teaches media ethics in the University of Missouri’s journalism school. “It’s pretty grotesque when you think about it.”

see i don't really buy this line on this particular story. i mean, ok, yes, right, we all know that. but tiger's problem is not "just being human" or however the media critics would put it. what i think is under-discussed or appreciated is how much this whole thing reveals about the kind of privilege and entitlement conferred by wealth and status. the deadspin article started to get into that, talking about how this was a not-uncommon sort of thing for millionaire athletes. but it's not just athletes; millionaires of all kinds live in this realm of private clubs and resorts, personal services that can requisition whatever you want, and it all leads to a whole lot of what most people would consider pretty gross behavior. that's the aspect that i think is most interesting, and just making this a story of one man's sins sort of obscures that.

and ok, there's nothing new or shocking about rich people being pigs. but we don't really hear enough about it, i don't think. every individual case of excess is treated as an individual case of excess, not as a symptom of some fundamental rot in a society that has spent the last several decades transferring more and more of our wealth to a small number of people at the top. and that's why i think the "oh we build them up to tear them down" narrative is deeply suspect, because it makes us somehow responsible for their abuses of power and wealth. it's this whole icarus bullshit, "oh we expect them to fly too close to the sun," blah blah blah. i'm sure tiger woods has a lot of pressures and a lot of problems, but so do lots of people in america, and they don't have millions of dollars to go drown their sorrows in porn stars and ambien. (still really don't get the ambien thing.)

off with their heads, is what i'm saying.

what most people would consider pretty gross behavior

hmm, maybe most people would consider it pretty gross behaviour, but then if most people were millionaires i'm not certain they'd be behaving any differently wrt to their own preferred indulgences & fuck whatever 'most people' think.