Tiger doesn't owe us an explanation

The media members/outlets asserting Tiger Woods owes the public and the Florida Highway Patrol an explanation for a fender-bender and his wife's jaws-of-9-iron rescue owe America an explanation for their self-serving jealousy and obvious stupidity.


"Tigergate" is a Twitter, Facebook, TMZ and blog controversy. It's great gossip. It's excellent monologue material for Letterman, Conan and Kimmel.

Tiger's troubles

Based on a story by the National Enquirer, "Tigergate" might be yet another example of Ms.Galore's incredible 2009 season. Quite frankly, if Ms. Galore is not Sports Illustrated's sportsperson of the year, the magazine should retire the award and admit its institutional sexism.


"Tigergate" is humorous.


It's not the lead talking point for Mike Lupica on "The Sports Reporters." When Lupica suggested on Sunday that Tiger needed to handle his driveway fender-bender the way A-Rod handled his steroids controversy, I damn near fell out of my hotel bed in anger when Bill Rhoden didn't leap from his chair and slap the former dwarf bowling champion.


By Sunday night, by the time I re-watched the loop of Linda Cohn cynically chastising Tiger on SportsCenter for not satisfying his fans' curiosity with a detailed explanation, I was fully enraged and embarrassed.


Tiger Woods doesn't owe us an explanation for non-criminal behavior that may or may not have transpired between himself and his wife. He doesn't owe the police an explanation for a minor traffic accident.


His 2:25 a.m., smashed-SUV-window escape from his estate is not a window into his "real" character or lack of character. And neither is the National Enquirer story.


We don't know any more or less about Tiger Woods today than we did before he left his house Thanksgiving night. Anyone arguing otherwise is a naive idiot. And anyone arguing that we need to learn more is a ratings-starved TV producer or a self-righteous, undersexed hypocrite.