Over the Thanksgiving break, a worldwide known athlete was in a car crash. Yes I found an article on Tiger Woods. (no surprise there) unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past few days, you have heard about his car crash on ESPN, the nightly news, gossip sites, and anywhere else where media is present.
The article that I read talked about Tiger pulling out of his own golf tournament because of injuries that he received in his car crash near his home in Florida. The cause of the accident and many other questions about the crash has still not been answered by Tiger. The article stated that the world’s number one golfer posted a statement on his own website saying that injuries (unspecified) prevented him from play in the Chevron World Challenge. The professional golfer continues on saying, "I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week," Woods said. "I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I'm very sorry that I can't be there." The article then said that The Golf Channel reported that headaches and soreness will prevent Tiger Woods from traveling to attend the event.
The article then goes on about how the tournament directors said that starting next week, fans that bought early tickets can get refunded starting next week, or fans can be refunded by 20 percent of the ticket price.
The article then finishes up by recapping everything that the media knows about the accident, which is not too much information besides that Tiger takes full responsibility for the crash and that all the rumors that are flying around out in the media are not correct. He has said, “the crash is a private matter, and I intend on keeping it that way.”
Emma Frawley
Kin. 332I Sec 2
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Interesting enough, reports have found that Tiger Wood was having extramarital affairs with other ladies during the investigation. After the reports, many other women began confessing that they have also had affairs with him, which has not been proven. Other rumors are also going around that Tiger Wood has said to one of the ladies that his marriage was a sham, and that he did it for publicity. If that is the case, then what king of values and motives is society instilling into athletes to force them to conform to these behaviors?
In addition to the issues, one would think that his corporate sponsorships would be taken away, however, that is not the case because he still have them! This brings up issues with how society perceives athletes because if Tiger Woods would to have come out and open the closet, then the whole corporate sponsorships would have turned the other way around. This whole idea relates to the issue of if Woods does not have the image of the dominant trait idealeology, then he will be marginalized.
- Sophearun D. Kou, Kin332I Section 03
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