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Tiger Woods Injured, World Stops Caring About Golf; Advertisers 'Screwed'
Tiger Woods has announced that he tore his ACL and will miss the rest of the golf season, so it's time to despair, toss your golf clubs in the water, and sell any investments you have in any company remotely connected with golf as fast as possible. TV networks that show golf tournaments and the companies that advertise on those broadcasts are doing exactly that right now, although with slow, undetectable movements, and with a broad smile on their face for the press. "Golf will be fine!" they'll say, with their stomachs sinking as they look at the numerical proof of the "Tiger Effect": More »
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Noose Probably Not the Best Choice for Your Magazine's Cover
Golfweek's recent cover featuring a noose is getting a bad reaction from pretty much everyone, so they fired the editor responsible. The noose is—duh!—totally in reference to the suspension of Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman, who made an extremely poorly-chosen comment involving the word "lynch" when discussing young golfers challenging Tiger Woods. As for the cover—yeah, that's one of those ideas that seems good at three in the morning but the next day you're totally like "Oops." Except with print, you can't take it back. Golfweek also issued an apology. There, now it's all fixed! Click to see the large version of this extremely bad decision! [Yahoo News] [AP] More »
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It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Accidentally Mentions Lynching
Kelly Tilghman—an anchor at the most exciting channel on TV, the Golf Channel—was suspended for two weeks because of a crude and racist remark. Just how crude and racist was it? "Lynch him in a back alley," she said, referring to young players challenging Tiger Woods. Well hell, we all let things slip sometimes. Woods' agent didn't much care, because the two are actually friends, but no matter—now Al Sharpton has jumped into the fray! Which means we have about three more days of crazy-talk on this particular story. [AP]
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