Lash Extensions 101: Faux And Fabulous
Happy Birthday, Mr. T!
It appears that the world doesn't hate Tiger Woods as much as we thought. Well, people may dislike his behavior, but they love his performance. In spite of the recent controversy, Tiger was selected as the athlete of the decade in a vote by U.S. sports editors.
While this might surprise some, it would have been incredibly illogical to give the award to anyone else. Tiger's decade was simply unmatched by any golfer in the history of the world. In fact, Woods' 56 PGA tour victories during the past decade were more than the entire career win total of every golfer in history, excluding the top four ever. In other words, the man is a stud (pun intended).
The tremendous balance of the AP writers who voted is shown by the fact that more than half of the votes were cast after the Nov. 27 accident that led to the recent scandal. Woods had 56 votes to the 33 votes given to Lance Armstrong, a cyclist who survived cancer to win the Tour de France six times. I was impressed that the writers didn't fall victim to any tendency to lean toward golden boys with blue eyes during Woods' time of weakness.
The big win in this poll won't release Woods from the bounds of declining popularity, though. According to a recent Gallup Poll, Woods' popularity dropped from 85 percent down to a low of 33 percent after the scandal took place. The 85 percent approval rating was in 2005, the last time the poll was taken. This tremendous loss in popularity means that Woods may get respect as an athlete, but his ability to sell products has been shattered. Also, if Woods takes a year away from golf, his sponsors are going to keep running for the hills.
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Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and the founder of the Your Black World Coalition. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here. 
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By: Jean on 12/28/2009 3:12AM
Tiger Woods has been a world class athlete since he was 20 or so.I have always admired him and still do.
Why do people want to crucify him for cheating on his wife that is if he did cheat? Who knows what she has done to him, and who cares either way? I know I don't... It is their business what goes on behind closed doors not ours!
I hope Tiger who has always been a quiet and reserved guy comes forward himself or with his attorney telling the world to back off, and that his privacy needs to be respected.
I just do not understand why some seemingly wish to lynch him for a fender bender and some women? He has taken care of this matter.Then for them to do a spin about all the women he reportedly slept with that are slithering out from the woodwork is just awful!
Who knows how he has been feeling since the loss of his father and mentor?
Please get a life and stop the gossip!To the media stop capitalizing making big ratings off Tiger's troubles!
Tsk... Tsk...Tsk!! Wonder what is going on inside your homes?
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By: dxxy4u on 12/17/2009 12:14PM
Tiger is MORE popular than ever. If any one polled me and asked, "Do I like Tiger's BEHAVIOR?. I'll answer, "No". Now that doesn't say jack about how feel about Tiger. He'd still be my man, I just don't like the way he handled his personal life. Stop mixing the two, and saying Tiger popularity is down. It up and way up. Wait until Tiger comes out, women are going snap up the tickets like hot cake. Don't be surprise if you see a pair of panties thrown over Tiger's ball just before he Tees off.
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By: dxxy4u on 12/17/2009 12:19PM
This is the first time Tiger has been in any kind of controversial stuff, so how can you compare his behavior now to back when, when Tiger's behavior hasn't ever been up for questioning?
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By: dxxy4u on 12/17/2009 12:31PM
Only in hypocritical America. In the Asian Countries , Tiger is popular as ever. Over there, it's their custom to accommodate it's Elite ones with "female companionship" for the night. Along with his appearance fees, some of the most beautifull ladies would be give him for his pleasure. Only American women are trying to get over. Look at how the foreign Countries are handling this, verses how we here are handling it.
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By: Ellie on 12/17/2009 4:58PM
Americans like to put up a facade of purity and morality,and we all know it's fake. If Americans dropped out of the illicit sex trade, drug trade and porno business, all of those things would go bust.
Americans love to hold people to a moral standard that very Amricans ever attain, and then trash them when they don't.
Americans are every bit as purient and decadent as the rest of the world. We just try to hide it and we are not doing a very good job of it.
Private is private, it has nothing to do with golfing.He and his wife will figure out their problem without our help.
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By: Ellie on 12/17/2009 4:56PM
Tiger's ability and prowess as a golfer has nothing to do with his personal problems. His personal problems should not even be discussed when evaluating him as sportsman. He is a golfer, not the Messiah.
I have become very nostalgic for the days when we, the public, did not pry into the personal lives of celebs, politicians or our neighbors. We should all have enough businees of our own without this incessant digging into other people's business.
Tiger and his wife will figure out what to do about their situation, just as thousands of other couples do every year when faced with the issue. Since no one in this family will be on the public dole, it is none of our business.
Tiger is a golfer and that is the only part ofhis life we should be interested in.
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