Monday, January 11, 2010

TIGER-MANIA


I remember during the second week of November, I was sitting on the couch with my roommate watching Pardon The Interruption. The show's hosts were having a heated debate regarding the "Biggest Sports Story" of the decade. So me and my roommate started remeniscing all the sports tales that made headlines for the past 10 years: The Kobe Case? Baseball and steroids? Spygate? The Ron Artest Melee? Mike Tyson? You could've made a case for any of them.

Little did we know, our undisputed answer will come to light a day later.

News broke that Tiger Woods, golf's posterboy and arguebly the biggest athlete on the planet right now, crashed his Escalade into a fire hydrant, as he was pulling out of his driveway at 2:30 am!

Questions galore!! Was he intoxicated? Was it an emergency? Why would a family man leave his house at that time of the night? How can someone crash into a hydrant when he pulls off his driveway every day?

Everything was in play! See, we didn't know much about Tiger. So why was everyone so shocked about what transpired in the following days? He has been famous since his preteen days as an ametuer golfer. He was pampered to at a very early age and was/is idolized by everyone that ever picked up a club, but, like most people with his status, he is still human!

Given the lack of emotions he shows when the cameras are on, and the fact that two of his best friends are Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan (two icons who have cheated on their wives, have had many gambling issues and are not the most ethicly driven people alive), I am not shocked at all to have discovered this side of Mr.Woods.

If anything, I think he needed to show it.

Keep smiling and God bless,

Nas

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