Tiger Woods: Shirtless in Vanity Fair
The Tiger Woods scandal continues to fascinate, even with little or no new details surfacing in weeks. See this month's shirtless Tiger Woods Vanity Fair cover.
We suppose, given that this was one of the most shocking celebrity scandals of the decade - nay, the millennium - it may fuel celebrity gossip for some time.
In addition to "raw" and "never-before-seen" photos by Annie Liebovitz (taken before the scandal), Vanity Fair features a essay by sportswriter Buzz Bissinger.
The Friday Night Lights author reflects on a fall from grace unlike any before in American sports. Anything new? Not really. Compelling writing? Absolutely.
Hey, he may be in seclusion somewhere (Arizona, Florida, NYC's Trump Tower, etc.), but who needs new stories when they can ogle Tiger Woods shirtless.
Of the Vanity Fair cover photo, Liebovitz says she captured the "intensely competitive athlete" in what turned out to be a state of "prophetic isolation"...
Tiger Woods, shirtless, pumps iron in a photo taken before his sex scandal erupted. Nowadays he is better known for pumping mistresses. Sorry. It's a slow news day.
How the mightiest of athletes has fallen in the past month. Of the 33-year-old golfer's incredible demise, at least in the world of public opinion, Bissinger writes:
"In the end it was the age-old clash of image versus reality. [Tiger Woods] 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."
That's hard to argue with.
Although if he convinces Elin Woods to stay married to him when the scandalous dust finally settles, that would arguably rank #2. Or a close #3 behind his 14 majors.
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January 13th, 2010 10:41 AM
KEEP PLAYING THOSE WHITE HO'S TIGER! WHITE WOMEN ARE SO EASY. DONT WORRY, TIGER WILL BE BACK PLAYING GOLF. HE IS THE BEST. HIS WHITE HO WIFE WILL COME BACK TO HIM TO SPEND HIS MONEY. NO WORRIES!
January 7th, 2010 10:47 AM
First of all I DO NOT condone what Tiger has done, but I am outraged and shocked at the news of what Elin did to Tiger!! Smashing Tiger in the face with a golf club to the point of needing plastic surgery? Wow! Elin could have killed Tiger. What kind of a person/Mother does that? Yes, understandably you are pissed at your husband for cheating on you countless times, but this is how you handle it? She is a very sick woman and needs help because this is domestic abuse and is a crime punished by serving time in jail, which she did not get because Tiger didnt expose her. I now wonder if this has happened before? I personally do not feel sorry for Elin but I do for her children if she retains custody of them. I hope she is exposed and pays for her crime because Tiger should have told the police what happened and perhaps he would have gotten the kids...Get a good lawyer Tiger and fight her for custody of those kids because if she did this to you it makes me wonder what she could do to those
January 6th, 2010 10:54 PM
Stud Tiger he is a player
January 6th, 2010 4:01 PM
perhaps he should have remained single. he has hurt sooooomany people. he can not expect forgiveness. one woman perhaps, 14, 15, 16 woman noway. he has tried it all, now try GOD. lr
January 5th, 2010 7:39 PM
Looks to me like he's been keeping a golf ball in his navel, yuk! AND.... Tiger or Fox, he sure was sly enough to keep his public fooled for years, I hope he gets what he deserves & let's see Camillo Villages take his spot as #1, that would be sweet :)
January 5th, 2010 12:37 AM
with that good body n cash which gal will resist tigers arms?
January 4th, 2010 11:10 PM
Tigers are feline mammals, officially Panthera tigris. They certainly are not human nor appear human unless the person seeing them as human is taking way too many drugs or drinks.
Eldrick Woods is a human being and a self-acknowledged cheating husband.
January 4th, 2010 7:25 PM
Must be the Human Growth hormone kicking in.
January 4th, 2010 4:51 PM
I'm sure that Cheetah's wife and kids are so happy he's good at golf, considering he apparently sucks at being a decent human being.
Being able to hit a little white ball is not a virtue.
January 4th, 2010 4:29 PM
Certain ones still keep talking bad about Tiger, but that still does not take away the fact that he is still the world best golfer and he is still have billions. You can try and break his Spirit but you cannot take away the facts, I still like him and I will be glad when he returns because I will not watch golf until
he does, there is no one else with his swagger.