BBC News – Tiger Woods to take ‘indefinite leave’ from golf. I always thought that nothing could happen on the golf course would ever stop Tiger from becoming the greatest golfer ever; he’s simply too good not to break Jack Nicklaus’ record and then some. His fall from grace , however, has been a total [...]
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Unashamed Schadenfreude
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Driving ban for speeding golfer Colin Montgomerie – Scotsman.com News. You shouldn’t take pleasure in other people’s misfortunes but I could not help chuckling to myself when I read about Monty being banned from driving. It was just imagining his sour face and slumped shoulders when he got the news that tickled me.
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Admire Tiger Woods’s swing, ignore his swinging | Dominic Lawson – Times Online
What is the point of Tiger Woods? There is only one of any interest, which is that he may have played golf better than any other man, living or dead. Actually, there is a second point, connected to the first: he is the first black man to have achieved any sort of eminence in a [...]
Tiger’s disgrace – A touch of racism perhaps ?
All the Schadenfruede over Tiger Woods seems to me to be tainted a bit with racism. Generally I think using racism is an excuse for covering your faults but in this instance the reaction to Tiger’s behaviour seems so over the top that it can’t be anything else. Of course when you are a high [...]
