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His request is perfectly reasonable' date= and should be respected. Makes it even more amazing that - in this age of tabloid media glare - SRT has managed to stay away from even a shred of controversy in 20 years of being in the spotlight. He has never been brusque with the media, is always polite, humble and grounded, and takes all the attention (positive and negative) in stride with a smile. Other athletes and superstars need to learn from this guy. Plus, he has performed at the highest level for the better part of two decades. PS: I started this thread to praise SRT, not to bury Tiger.
I dont think so at all, he made a conscious decision when he chose to become a pga golfer, with the money and accolades come the scrutiny, just like the products he endorses sell, news about him good or bad sells. Any celebrity, has to go through this, it is a part of the whole package of being a celebrity, you cannot pick and choose, and yeah it is hypocritical from the public, but that is how it is.
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Ambulance 'called from Tiger Woods' home in Florida' An unidentified woman has been taken away in an ambulance from a house on the street in Florida where golfer Tiger Woods lives, reports say. Local television stations in Orlando said a call for an ambulance had been received from Woods' home in the gated Isleworth community at 0236 (0736 GMT). TV footage showed a woman being wheeled on a stretcher into a nearby hospital. Last week, Woods apologised to his family for letting them down amid speculation about his private life. The statement came days after he was found bleeding and semi-conscious after his car hit a tree and fire hydrant outside his home, and followed a story in a US gossip magazine that he had had a 31-month affair with a Los Angeles cocktail waitress. Woods was later charged with careless driving and fined $164. The 14-time major champion has been married to his Swedish wife Elin, a former model, for five years. The couple have two children. 'Life support' On Tuesday morning, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Fire Rescue service told the Associated Press that medics had responded to an overnight 911 emergency call from Deacon Circle in Isleworth, and that an adult had been taken to hospital. But she would not say whether the call had come from Tiger Woods' home, or if the person who received treatment had been a woman. The Orlando television station, WESH, reported earlier that a radio log showed an adult woman had been transported from Woods' home to the Health Central Hospital in nearby Ocoee. The log showed the patient had initially refused transport, but was later listed as an advance life support patient, it added. WESH said the video from the hospital showed a blonde woman being taken through the entrance to the emergency room. A black Cadillac Escalade, with a number plate similar to the one involved in Woods' car crash, was reportedly seen at the hospital. The information has not been independently confirmed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8401706.stm

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Now the inevitable race angle http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091206/ap_on_sp_go_ne/us_tiger_woods_race_5

Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles — the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses — little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer. Except in the black community. When three white women were said to be romantically involved with Woods in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and barbershops started humming, and Woods' already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating. On the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, Woods was the butt of jokes all week. "Thankfully, Tiger, you didn't marry a black woman. Because if a sister caught you running around with a bunch of white hoochie-mamas," one parody suggests in song, she would have castrated him. "The Grinch's Theme Song" didn't stop there: "The question everyone in America wants to ask you is, how many white women does one brother waaant?" As one blogger, Robert Paul Reyes, wrote: "If Tiger Woods had cheated on his gorgeous white wife with black women, the golfing great's accident would have been barely a blip in the blogosphere." The darts reflect blacks' resistance to interracial romance. They also are a reflection of discomfort with a man who has smashed barriers in one of America's whitest sports and assumed the mantle of the world's most famous athlete, once worn by Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan. But Woods has declined to identify himself as black, and famously chose the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian) to describe the racial mixture he inherited from his African-American father and Thai mother. This vexed some blacks, but it hasn't stopped them from claiming Woods as one of their own. Or from disapproving of his marriage to Elin Nordegren, despite blacks' historical fight against white racist opponents of mixed marriage. On the one hand, Ebonie Johnson Cooper doesn't care that Tiger Woods' wife and alleged mistresses are white because Woods is "quote-unquote not really black." "But at the same time we still see him as a black man with a white woman, and it makes a difference," said Johnson Cooper, a 26-year-old African-American from New York City. "There's just this preservation thing we have among one another. We like to see each other with each other." Black women have long felt slighted by the tendency of famous black men to pair with white women, and many have a list of current transgressors at the ready. "We've discussed this for years among black women," said Denene Millner, author of several books on black relationships. "Why is it when they get to this level ... they tend to go directly for the nearest blonde?" This tendency may be more prominent due to a relative lack of interracial marriages among average blacks. Although a recent Pew poll showed that 94 percent of blacks say it's all right for blacks and whites to date, a study published this year in Sociological Quarterly showed that blacks are less likely to actually date outside their race than are other groups. "There is a call for loyalty that is stronger in some ways than in other racial communities," said the author of the study, George Yancey, a sociology professor at the University of North Texas and author of the book "Just Don't Marry One." The color of one's companion has long been a major measure of "blackness" — which is a big reason why the biracial Barack Obama was able to fend off early questions about his black authenticity. "Had Barack had a white wife, I would have thought twice about voting for him," Johnson Cooper said. So do Woods' women say something about the intensely private golfer's views on race? "I would like to say no, but I think it garners a bit of a yes," Johnson Cooper said. Carmen Van Kerckhove, founder of the race-meets-pop-culture blog Racialicious, said there have been frequent discussions on her site about the fine line between preference and fetish. "Is there any difference between a white guy with a thing for blondes, and a non-white guy with a thing for blondes?" asked Van Kerckhove, who has a Chinese mother, a Belgian father and a husband born in America to parents from Benin. She claims that Asians don't fully embrace Woods, either. "There are two layers of suspicion toward him," Van Kerkhove said. "One toward the apparent pattern in the race of his partners, and the second in the way he sees himself. ... People have been giving him the side-eye for a while." There's nothing wrong with wanting a mate who shares your culture, as long as it's for the right reasons, the comedienne Sheryl Underwood said after unleashing a withering Woods monologue on Tom Joyner's radio show. "Would we question when a Jewish person wants to marry other Jewish people?" she said in an interview. "It's not racist. It's not bigotry. It's cultural pride." "The issue comes in when you choose something white because you think it's better," Underwood said. "And then you never date a black woman or a woman of color or you never sample the greatness of the international buffet of human beings. If you never do that, we got a problem." ___
PS: Now that the thread has been hija ... redirected from its original intent, I thought I'd join in the new direction.
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That article perfectly sums up black America's racism towards white people. It is just ridiculous.
true...... His wife should have plucked out his jewels:--D...that would have been sweet justice! Anyways...now she should aim for the other kind of jewels ard then dump this s*l*u*t* !
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