That right there is a kiss goodbye, Elin Woods will be waltzing away from Tiger Woods with a world of shame and heartbreak, good thing she and her kids will have $100mil dollars to sooth their pain. Reports say she gets physical custody of their two kids, and share legal custody. TW is not allowed to see/visit kids with any other woman/girlfriend unless he's married to them… Good for Elin.

Tiger's the cheater's fall from grace continues, we had high hopes for his “redemption recovery project” especially having such a huge and highly paid team working for the “Tiger recovery project” sadly we've been disappointed, he's struggling quite fabulously on the course, clearly still not in a state to win, the divorce no doubt isn't helping, the constant tabloids aren't either… did he come back too soon?

 

Here's a collection of reactions to the Tiger Cheater Woods global mea culpa on Friday:

VERONICA SIWIK-DANIELS, aka porn star Joslyn James, who claims to have had a three-year affair with Woods:

“I would be open to a telephone apology from Tiger, but I really feel that I deserve to look at him in person – face to face, in his eyes – because I didn't deserve this. . . . He knows that I was very straight and honest with him, but for a long time he lied to me. I never wanted to cause Elin, Sam or Charlie any pain, but I'm not the sole cause.”

 The Dalai Lama:

The Tibetan spiritual leader also briefly addressed the Tiger Woods scandal and the golf star’s public comments Friday about straying from his Buddhist faith. Woods said he was raised Buddhist but needed to focus anew on finding balance between his faith and professional life.

The Dalai Lama said he did not know who Woods was, but said self-discipline is among Buddhism’s highest values. When it comes to adultery, he said, “all religions have the same idea.”

“I think mainly whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important,” he said. “Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.”

Sports Columnist  Stephen A. Smith, has no sympathy for Tiger Woods

This is the price liars pay. Particularly those of the Tiger variety. You know: the kind who does something wrong and hides. Who convinces himself he’s the victim. Who screeches at the media to “leave my family alone,” while conveniently ignoring the fact no reporters were in attendance besides three journalists handpicked by Woods’ PR team to attend – primarily because they agreed not to ask questions.

 But let it be said right here: That is total and utter nonsense. Friday’s farce was a Woods infomercial. Whatever he was selling, I’m not buying.

While Woods’ words were predictably appropriate and contrite, everything else about his presentation, including his body language and the lack of fluidity in his words, reeked of someone desperately trying to salvage whatever was left of his stained image.

His pregnant pause while staring into the camera before saying “I’m sorry” was fake. His stuttering and stumbling over written words spoke more about his lack of familiarity with those words than his discomfort with speaking them.

The hug Woods gave his mother was made for the highlight reels. And his walking away from the podium, head bowed, puppy-dog faced, was straight out of the soap operas.

Stay tuned! General Hospital may call him soon.

Jacek, the male version of Lainey Gossip sounds the same tone as most other commentators

It’s obvious to everyone that the message was well crafted. Of course it was. Why wouldn’t it have been? He’s worth 30 kazillion dollars and they had months to plan it, probably because Tiger was too stubborn to listen to his people and do this early. Either that or they had to wait until his face healed.

His pre-conference pep talk by his publicist? “Tiger…anytime you say the words ‘I’m sorry’, make sure to pause, look deeply into the camera, and look as sincere as you can even though it looked creepy during practice. And look down and pause a few times as though you feel pain”. Unfortunately given that Tiger is about as animated and expressive as a 4-iron, it wasn’t very convincing.

I believe that Tiger is still all about Tiger. He is still stubborn. Still selfish. Still scripted. And “sex addicted”? Please. You can put me and every straight male I know into that category. Difference is, most of us choose to tug it out in the shower if we have to instead of acting on it with every waitress who ever asked what we’ll be having. That being said, the conference will probably call off the hounds as the admissions of guilt were almost over the top. But sincere it was not.

TIME editor Ratnesar was on to the false notes

There were some false notes, like the overheated, straw-man defense of Elin – she “deserves praise, not blame.” Uh, sorry, but who's blaming her? Among those who think she really did go after him with a 9-iron, most would agree with Jesper Parnevik: she should have used a driver. And there was a brief section early in the speech in which he extolled all the good works being done by the Tiger Woods Foundation – while it was nice to hear that those projects will continue, it also felt discordantly self-serving. I don't think he's done with the confessionals, though – he'll need to answer real questions, from someone.

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Seemed pretty honest, rebutted some of the theories, acknowledged press interest in knowing when and how much he cheated, what's going on with his wife etc… but say all that is private… fair enough.

Thought he'd return to golf by announcing it today however that wasn't to be, seems like he's on a 12 step program with this being the “make apology to everyone wronged” stage, then he goes back for more therapy.

His mom in the audience was a good support. Glad Elin wasn't there like all the wronged wives who always show up at these embarrassing pressers for their adulterous husbands mea culpa looking like they're wishing they could be swallowed by the ground…

Developing........

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Tiger presser over

Walks away in shame.

Rounds of hugs for “friends” and family

Asks to be believed in again, starts to cry and hugs his mom then starts smiling again

Thanks people for well wishes, PGA tour, and other players for their patience

He will return to Golf one day, just not yet.

Apologizes to Accenture for upstaging their tournament with this presser, those players there have been pissed to be upstaged

Says he's a Buddhist, he strayed away from it and fell into going for his urges

Says he's going back to therapy

Seems more angry, visibly angry when talking about media making up stories and following his family, begs paparrazzi to stop stalking his family

Admits to having “issues” and will continue seeking help, admits to needing help

Apologies to foundation, kids and parents out there

Lashes out at media for the “Elin abused Tiger” story

He says he came to a place where he thought rules didn't apply to him at all, thanks to money and fame they came to him easy.

Apologized to family, friends, sponsors, business etc

Tiger apologizes

  

Here's the very first photo of Tiger Woods since his staggeringly stupid adulterous shenanigans were revealed for the world to see thanks to the National Enquirer. Tiger went into hiding at a “sex rehab” to let things cool off for a while, during that time there has been not a pip from him. His wife Elin Woods on the other hand has been the picture of doting scorned mother staying strong, taking care of her children while weathering the storm gracefully.

Now, we get to watch the very fascinating, very strategic, Global Star Image Rehabilitation^TM game plan unfold. The plan has been dusted off awaiting the perfect timing for the return and now we get to see how its rolled out. Will it succeed? His PR team so shockingly under-served Tiger when the scandal broke that I'm not so sure how successful this PR Recovery Game^TM is going to work out for Tiger. I hope he fired all his advisers, PR etc and hired a new team for the image rehab he needs to do now. Sucky team not withstanding , the PRRG started today with the photo above of Tiger jogging, the photos were released by Getty Images which means they were staged for release today, to coincide with the announcement of Tiger's Mia Culpa on Friday when the PRRG kicks into high gear. He apparently plans to apologize for his behavior he plans to do this by:

take it way… Bloomberg:

Tiger Woods will be speaking to “a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates at 11:00 a.m. EST Friday at the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,” a statement from his agent said , adding, “Tiger plans to discuss his past and his future and he plans to apologize for his behavior.”

No questions or cameras will be allowed, but a pool of reporters will be at the event.

That's right, Tiger will read a statement in-front of “friends” but will not be man enough to withstand media questioning? Does he plan to keep hiding for the rest of his life? He WILL have to answer some questions from the press, this press/statement reading, would have been the perfect opportunity to seat there and take all the beating he can from the press and be done with it. He could have answered the questions, been contrite without revealing too much, infact he could have done what politicians do and accepted questions but answered them with prepared “talking points” that would have sufficed, rather than the “I ain't talking” strategy that invites more questions and more scrutiny. May be this is all strategic, say little, come back to the game and WIN then answer questions.

Notice in the new pictures, he's clad in NIKE gear, somewhere out in NIKE World they're holding their collective breath for Tiger to return to the game. On Friday Tiger will no doubt announce his return to the golf course, whichever tournament he picks as the first one for his return, the PGA will immediately start auctioning off ad space to the highest bidders who'll be falling all over each other racing to buy ads because that tournament will be the most watched Golf tournament of this decade. Don't believe me? just watch, I'll certainly be watching too.

So the world waits for Friday and the game begins. I'll be live blogging the “statement” read and following this story closely.

Will Tiger Woods successfully roar back? 

Click below for more Tiger photos released today.

 

 

Tiger Woods is helping famed photographer and currently in HUGE $30million debt, Annie Leibovitz come out of bankruptcy! See someone other than the tabloids is benefiting from Tiger's fall from grace. A shirtless Tiger Woods graces the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair. The Magazine announced that they will feature a “full portfolio” of “never-before-seen photos of a raw, unguarded Woods” taken by Annie Leibovitz.
 

Here is the full release:

Tiger Woods appears on the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair, photographed pre-scandal by Annie Leibovitz. There is a full portfolio inside–never-before-seen photos of a raw, unguarded Woods.

To read the full article, please go to our website.

Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and, most recently, co-author of Shooting Stars, with LeBron James, reflects on Woods's downfall and what his future may hold. Woods “had always been the bionic man in terms of personality, controlling to a fault,” Bissinger writes. He calls the pre-scandal Woods “the perfect man and pitchman for our imperfect times, a charming non-person,” noting that “with Woods, everything was crafted to produce a man of nothing, with no interior–non-threatening and non-controversial.” But “in the end it was the age-old clash of image versus reality… He deluded himself into thinking he could be something that he wasn't: untouchable. The greatest feat of his career is that he managed to get away with it for so long in public, the bionic man instead of the human one who hit a fire hydrant.”

 

Right, and they had to pick THAT picture for the cover, unretouched. Ok then… moving on..

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In more interesting news though, A Tiger Woods sex tape? Steven Hirsch, CEO or something of Vivid Entertainment, a porn related company is claiming that on of Tigers sex conquests approached him with a “legitimate” sex tape of herself and Tiger Woods shot approximately two years ago. He goes on to claim has only seen about 30 seconds of video however since Tigers legal team has been out threatening anyone anywhere with such claims Steven Hirsch is withholding on confirming its Tiger.

Aha..... that tape will be leaked in 8…7…6…5…4.....

Would you see it?

Tiger Woods: Hello, Hello? AT&T: Hello, who's this? Tiger Woods: It's Tiger Woods AT&T: “click” Tiger Woods: Hello…hears.....ttteeeeee sound hello? Fuck!

 

There's a Wall Street Journal report that AT&T has decided to end its sponsorship of Tiger Woods. Well damn........ AT&T's logo appeared on Tigers golf bag, and they were the title sponsors of a PGA event that Tiger hosted. AT&T has now joined Accenture, Gatorade and Gillette in dropping their sponsorships of Tiger. I liked the Accenture Tiger ads, I'll miss those ads, they were done very well.

As sponsors continue to drop Tiger, recently a study was released that estimated that Tiger's cheating scandal had caused $12 billion worth of damage. Wow indeed..

Nike who are Tigers biggest sponsor and also biggest beneficiary of Tiger's extreme goodness on the Golf course are standing by Tiger for now. Tag Heuer, is another sponsor that has prominently backed Woods, featuring a graphic on its web site saying the company “stands with” the golfer.

Tiger Woods shocking idiocity for his ego that led him to poke his peen in every hooker he could find has caused a lot of pain for his family, his brand, his sponsors and his game. But even with all that, I still think he'll come back and he'll do even better, many other sports stars have come back and I think Tiger will too. Makes sense that Nike and Tag Heuer are standing by waiting for his come back.

In more Tiger news, its been reporte that Florida Highway Patrol met with Tiger secretly December 1st, 2009 at an undisclosed location, according to those cops Tiger had a ‘Fat Lip and no other facial injuries. The Officers also claim Tiger’s appearance gave them no reason to believe he was the victim of domestic violence. I guess the “plastic surgery” report was wrong… if the cops saw no injuries as early as Dec 1 could be his PR team spinning hard on this one.

The Tiger babe saga continues.......

Has Tiger Woods checked into a Rehab Center in Arizona for “sex addiction” as a PR strategy?

That's what the gossip/paparazzi site X17 is reporting that Tiger Woods is attending rehab in Arizona, more importantly, their “source” tells the web site that Woods' “handlers” compelled him to enter rehab because “they feel that if he blames his cheating on addiction, the public will forgive him.”  Of-course X17 speculates that it's “obvious” that sex addiction would be at the top of the list as the reason Tiger is in that Rehab center, and I concur.

X17 is not the first to report the Tiger in Rehab for sex story, in early December the Daily Mail UK reported that Tiger was considering entering Rehab for “sexual compulsion” and Vicodin and Ambien use. To add to all that, the officer responsible for investigating Woods' car accident reportedly requested a subpoena because he believed Ambien and Vicodin may have been a factor in the crash. 

So is it possible Tiger is in rehab for “prescription drugs”? Yes indeed, I also highly suspect his team will put out that “rehab for sex addiction” line to tamper down the public anger at Tiger and stage his return with a huge interview and then get Tiger to on an “I am sorry” tour or rather a series of interviews claiming his healing and moving on…

Tiger Reconstructive Plastic Surgery?

Or is the above story really about Tiger getting plastic surgery for injuries sustained from his angry wife Elin beating him up with a golf club?

Because a report came out today via sportswriter Furman Bisher who is claiming that the real reason Tiger The Cheater Woods hasn't been seen since the accident is because he underwent reconstructive plastic surgery for his face, Bisher says:

"At one point Tiger turned away to look at the TV, and as he turned back, Elin hit him on the right side of the face with the head of a 9-iron. When she struck Tiger, she put a huge gash in the right side of his face next to his nose (causing his nose to bruise some), and virtually knocking two of his upper teeth out, and breaking the bone on the upper right side.

Tiger ran scared as hell out of the house (which is why he had on no shoes) with Elin swinging the golf club throughout the hallway to the garage (i.e. causing the severe damage which has been reported).

Tiger hopped in the Escalade and tried to leave; and as we know Elin knocked out the windows in the Escalade. When Tiger crashed, Elin panicked and was not sure what to tell the police (which is why there are two conflicting stories from her)."

Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.........

Bisher claims his story is straight from Tigers agent Mark Steinberg, a bold claim indeed, Tiger's team has been so tight lipped I wonder if they're dolling out this information to get it all out of the way during this “festive” time so that by the new year its all known and not new?

Click here to read more of Bisher's claims that include; Tiger being flown straight to the plastic surgeon to “fix” his injuries right from when he was released from hospital, as well as more claims about Tiger's agent's involvement in the cover-up story..

Tiger's concubines in case you've forgotten.......

  

include a porn star who bragged about her “amazing” sex with the golfer. Jamie Jungers, claims she and Woods had “wild” and “crazy” sex against a wall. She even says she slept with him the night his father died and 12 others with somewhat similar stories.

Meanwhile tabloids and entertainment shows are still trying to stretch this story as far as they can for eyeballs by making up lots of claims… the latest according to Entertainment Tonight, is that Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel have been hanging out around Palm Beach together holding hands and talking about who he would like to watch her have sex with first. Really? seriously really? couldn't they come up with a better kind of fiction? no way Tiger and Rachel can be walking hand in hand with no Paparazzi finding them. Tiger is the biggest tabloid story right now… he's not seen because he's not been outside… or he's hidden outside the country or at a rehab somewhere the Paps can't get to.. hanging out in Palm beach? Tabby please!

What do you think…will Elin stay or leave Tiger Woods? I say she's talked to divorce lawyers but she's going to end up staying… granted her pre-nap agreement will be amended and will now get LOTS more money but she will stay for now and Tiger will be placed on a shorter than a ladyfinger leash… do you agree? Share your thoughts in comments below..

 

Is Tiger Wood's wife Elin Nordegren throwing in the towel and leaving? That's what People Magazine is reporting

,“She plans to leave Tiger” a source close to the golfer's wife tells PEOPLE.
Another source says, “She's made up her mind. There's nothing to think about: he's never going to change,”

On Thursday, workers began moving large items including what appeared to be works of art out of the couple's home in Windermere, Fla., and Elin was seen giving them instructions, according to the New York Post.

Elin was spotted pumping gas into her car near the couple's home in Fla., last Saturday, and then later that weekend was spotted with a nanny and her two kids (Sam, 2, and Charlie, 10 months) out and about, both of these times Elin was not wearing her wedding ring.

            

             

           

As you all know by now, the misstress count continues, its up to number 14 now with possibilties for more women coming out. I think the continued scandal and the more women come out about their “relationships” with Tiger, the harder it becomes for Elin to stay with him.

Is Tiger Woods a sex addict? Thoughts?