Tiger Woods Link-Off

Over the last two weeks, the Tiger Woods saga has capitvated the entire world. It’s a story that started in the sports world with a little article in The National Enquirer and exploded when he crashed into a tree. So to celebrate all the great moments that came out of the crash, here’s a collection of the web’s greatest Tiger Woods stories from the last couple of weeks.

To kick things off, here’s Elin Nordegren.

Before we get into the links, it might help to know all the players. But with almost a dozen mistresses, you’d need a scorecard to keep track of everyone. Fortunately, I found one. (NY Daily News)

The only problem with that program of the players is that it doesn’t include the companionship that Tiger may have paid for. (New York Post)

Naturally, the mistresses are quite upset and quite sorry about the whole thing. (The Sun) Would they really go back and change things if they could? Not with the 15 minutes they’re getting.

After the jump, more Tiger links and some Tiger videos.

Maybe we should start with a look at why this is such a big deal. Fortunately, Jason Whitlock’s already done that for us. (Fox Sports)

Celebrity gossip website/pseudo-TV show TMZ has been behind on the Tiger story but they’ve been a thorn in Tiger’s side. However, Tiger’s camp won’t take their tabloid beating lying down. (Sports Pickle)

It’s not just the PGA Tour, his sponsors and his family that Tiger has let down. He’s also let down the poor children who were trying to raise money for a trip to Disney World. (FOX 11)

A lot of fun in this scandal is reading some of the supposedly flirty text messages that Tiger sent. Of course, they also teach you that texting isn’t very good for flirting. (Gawker)

Mind you, that’s not to say that Tiger shouldn’t have texted or sexted his girls. He just should have used some golfing double-entendres. (Huffington Post)

The Chinese had a viral hit with the animated re-enactment of Tiger’s crash. I wonder if the animated enactment of Tiger’s apology will be as big. (National Lampoon)

The news isn’t all bad for Tiger. He was nominated for Deadspin’s Sports Human of the Year award. (Deadspin)

There actually was a good reason for doing a special Tiger Woods linkdump: Everything Tiger related gets scads of hits. (CBC Sports)

But don’t tell that to the PGA Tour. They changed their website design so it’s Tiger-less. (CNBC)

Today’s photo gallery is an excellent juxtaposition of a 1996 Tiger profile in Sports Illustrated with pictures from the current scandal. (Deadspin) Did I use juxtapose right? Might be the first time I’ve ever used the word.

Of course, all these links are sort of small stories as far as sports purists are concerned. Tiger decided that he needs to take time off from golf and will stay off the course indefinitely. (The Big Lead)

UPDATE: Well, it had to happen eventually. One of Tiger’s sponsors has dropped him outright. (ESPN) I find it amazing that consultants who know what road beef is just as well as pro athletes are dropping Tiger over this.

I’ve posted this before but I don’t think we could do this link-off without tossing in this video.

And there’s no better way to close it off than with the original animated video that rocked the interweb.

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