Posts Tagged ‘Tiger Woods’
Capitalizing on Crisis: Just Do It
The latest from the Your-Misfortune-Is-My-Fortune files comes from a Southern California clothing shop that sells stylish graphic tees and hip, retro sneakers. Capitalizing on crisis is a common publicity ploy with limited sales opportunity so it pays to be swift. With that in mind, Tradition is now offering a limited edition Tiger...
Playa of the Year
Marketing knows no bounds. Everyone’s out to make a buck, especially if it comes at someone else’s expense. And, Americans love their cars and celebrities, so it should come as no surprise that a Northern California auto repair shop is trading on Tiger Woods’ good name in an effort to attract...
Rumors that aren’t squelched
It’s not hard to fathom that Tiger Woods isn’t going to scramble very hard to shut this specific I-banged-Tiger-Woods claim up: According to Lawton, Woods is quite the lover. He is “very well endowed” and “knows his way around the bedroom. On a scale of ten I would give him 12,” she tells News...
Woods’ last shining moment
Corey Grice (aka @golferwriterguy) wrote up a piece for the Huffington Post about the days of yore (you know, a little over a week ago?) when Tiger Woods image shone more brightly than the trophies on his mantle. Corey had a chance to see Tiger in what may have been his...
“Where were his PR people?”
I swear I’m nearly done writing about Tiger Woods and his transgressions/situations and any other indirect descriptor he’s used for his actions during the past few days. One thing has caught my eye a few times in reading the various blogs and news articles on Woods public relations nightmare – “What...
Forget Nicklaus, now Tiger Woods is after Wilt Chamberlain
There was a time when sports fans around the globe believed that Tiger Wood’s destiny lay at the feet of Jack Nicklaus. And while Tiger’s chase of Jack remains in place, it seems young Eldrick is now looking toward breaking the records of another historic American athlete – Wilt Chamberlain....
What Tiger Woods Taught Us
The Thanksgiving weekend car crash and recent sex scandal involving the world’s top ranked professional golfer, Tiger Woods, reminds us of and reveals many aspects about the confluence of sports and society. And, the bizarre circumstances that unfolded in the past week have exposed many new facets to one of...
Women Tiger Woods has probably not ‘transgressed’ with
You’re going to continue to hear about a number of women who have allegedly had relationships with Tiger Woods that were of the things-that-go-bumpity-bump-bump in the night variety. It could get confusing keeping your Rachel’s, Jaimee’s (the 2nd ‘e’ is for error) and Kalika’s straight after all. So we’ve worked up...
Tiger Woods scandal – Blame & Sympathy
Tiger confessed. There are a million tweets, blog postings, columns and TV stories being done right now that go into the timeline and details. If you want that info you can find it elsewhere easily enough. For days now it’s been fashionable to trash ‘the media’ for invading Tiger Woods privacy. ...
Woods speaks; raises more questions than answers
We can all get on with our lives now right? Tiger issued his statement and it…well it doesn’t really clear that much up does it? But it does at least publicly address the incident (or ‘situation’ as Woods refers to it as) which is all we’ve really suggested he do from the beginning....