If you haven't heard about all the goings on at Tigers den then you haven't been on the planet.I won't bore you with all the details, heaven knows I would have a hard time keeping up, there seems to be something new every minute.
There is something about excelling in sports that makes the individual feel invincible. It's all those voices telling you how great you are and that you are the best, numero uno, number one-necessary to build up the confidence that is necessary to get to the peak of any sport- but all those years spent focussing on just you, families spend so much time on a talented child to the detriment of other children. It is pretty hard to not turn out selfish with that much attention all your life but and this is a big but..... we are all called to face different challenges but still be decent human beings and he alledgedly hasn't. He is not alone, other sportstar scandals include
Kobe Bryant
In 2003, the L.A. Laker was accused of sexually assaulting 19-year old Katelyn Faber at a hotel in Eagle, Colorado. Bryant -- married to wife Vanessa since 2001 -- admitted to committing adultery but denied raping Faber. Charges were eventually dropped; he and Vanessa are still together.
OJ Simpson
In what was dubbed the "trial of the century," the former NFL star was acquitted in 1995 for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. In 2008, Simpson was found guilty of a violent Las Vegas robbery and assault, and is now serving at least nine years in prison.
Mike Tyson
The heavyweight boxing champ's first marriage in the late 80s to actress Robin Givens was marred by trouble: she accused him of violence, spousal abuse and mental instablity. In 1992, Tyson, now 43, was convicted of raping 18 year-old Desiree Washington and served three years in prison
Alex Rodriguez
His marriage to wife Cynthia ended in 2008 after she discovered his affair with pop star Madonna, now 51. The New York Post had previously connected the New York Yankee, now 34, to an exotic dancer in Toronto
Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan
Figure skaters at war! Harding, now 39, admitted to being involved in the 1994 attack on her rival; Kerrigan, now 40, was struck on the knees with a collapsible baton and famously cried "Why? Why?" Harding was banned from the sport.
David Beckham
the weeks following Beckham's move to Spain on July 22, Victoria was to be seen far more frequently in London and New York, working on a new album with which she hoped to resurrect her flagging career as a pop singer. She was photographed in the company of Damon Dash, a large, black, cigar-chomping rap-music entrepreneur said to be helping her with the hip-hop tracks. David, meanwhile, was languishing in his suite at the luxurious five-star Santa Mauro hotel in Madrid, where he would eventually notch up a bill of £433,157 for his first 80 days, including £74,285 for parking the five cars he'd had sent over from Britain.
Bored and lonely, it was perhaps inevitable that he should entertain impure thoughts about his luscious personal assistant, who was great fun, good company and the kind of woman few red-blooded males could ignore. Rebecca certainly noticed a subtle change in his attitude towards her: "I was getting messages from him late at night — messages with a double meaning. Over the weeks I had changed my opinion about him and realised that there were lots of things about him I really liked. He was very attentive to me and I sensed something was growing between us." aptly put.
So back to Tiger, some of the above have managed to weather the storm so can he bounce back? Some sponsors that have stood by the golfer so far now also appear to be tempering their public backing of him. Gatorade, the soft-drink brand, has stopped its range of Tiger Focus energy drinks, while commercials featuring Woods have disappeared from prime-time television and many cable channels after reports of his extramarital affairs, according to Nielsen, the media monitoring company. Woods’s public ratings have also dropped, affecting the likes of Gillette, Nike, Tag Heuer, Accenture and AT&T, whose marketing campaigns have been modelled on his clean performance both on and off the fairways. Some retailers are reporting a reduction of up to 33 per cent in sales of their Tiger Woods action figures.
According to the Davie Brown Index, used to gauge the ability of personalities to influence shoppers, his ranking as the sixth-most-powerful celebrity endorser has fallen in less than two weeks to 24th.
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