"We just have to get him back on the golf course so that corporations that want to capitalize on him can do so."
/Mark Steinberg talked to (who else?) Darren Rovell about his future after Tiger's pledge of loyalty Monday.
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Baseball Just Can't Let The Dr. Galea Thing Go
/Michael Schmidt and Serge Kovaleski report that after 14 months, Major League Baseball investigators have not stopped asking questions about Alex Rodriguez's dealings with Dr. Anthony Galea, a.k.a. Dr. Spaceman.
Read MoreOur Short National Nightmare Is Over: Tiger And Steiney Remain Together
/That IMG offer of 45% of all earnings to keep representing Tiger just was too much to ask for and he's staying on with Mark Steinberg, wherever he should land.
Read MoreTiger, Steiney "Reported" Earnings Not Adding Up
/We learned this week from IMG sources quoted in two stories that Mark Steinberg was too expensive to keep at $3 million a year in part because Tiger only generated $1.1 million in commission pay in his last year. However, as Ryan Ballengee notes, Forbes has Tiger atop their athlete list for earnings ending May 2011 at $75 million and well, the math on someone's end is not adding up.
Read MoreTwo Reports: Steiney Was "Too Expensive To Keep"
/Michael Smith in Sports Business Daily follows a Mark DeCambre New York Post report in which both cite sources saying IMG had decided agent Mark Steinberg was "too expensive to keep." His $3 million package for 2011 was not justified by the reduction in fees produced by Tiger, each reports.
Read MoreBrandel Brings Up Tiger And PED's, Even Though No One Asked
/Me thinks the Tiger true believers have been badgering Brandel Chamblee for his pointed analysis of Tiger's decline, because I'm not sure how else to explain the timing of a strange GolfChannel.com commentary offering the view that he does not believe Tiger ever used performance-enhancing drugs.
Read MoreFormer USGA Exec Bevacqua To CAA; Steiney Next?
/For Immediate Release...and only of interest to golf industry insiders. (Though I do wonder how this will impact any possible announcement tomorrow from Mark Steinberg, who has been shackled by an agreement with IMG to not reveal his future until June 1.)
Anyway...
“While we would describe Tiger as a distressed product, he’s still a premium brand."
/I know a lot of you haven't been able to sleep since the news broke that IMG let Mark Steinberg (and likely Tiger Woods) leave. Well, we mustn't have you fretting over the holiday weekend, which is where Randall Mell comes in with a look at Steiny and Tiger's options.
Read More"Confirm or deny: Was that Tiger Woods limping into a Toronto hospital, twice in the past month or so?"
/The Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons posed this question to readers:
Confirm or deny: Was that Tiger Woods limping into a Toronto hospital, twice in the past month or so? Sure looked like him...
You know they say the quality of health care is better in Canada!
Anyone know of any good sports medicine guys up there?
"Woods is fairly loyal to the crew around him, which means if Steinberg wants to continue as his management mouthpiece, he'll darned likely get the chance."
/Steve Elling thinks Mark Steinberg's split with IMG is definitely going to mean a fewer opportunities for Tiger.
Read More"There was nothing mutual about it."
/SBJ's Liz Mullen followed up the news of Mark Steinberg's departure from IMG with this item suggesting we won't hear a peep until June 1 when he is free to talk. As for the departure, it seems there are different opinions about how mutual the agreement was.
Read More"All in all, it is only the latest twist in an unusual ride"
/
In Doug Ferguson's story on Mark Steinberg leaving IMG, he writes:
Woods has a close relationship with Steinberg, a reserve on the Illinois basketball team that went to the Final Four in 1989. If he were to leave IMG and stay with Steinberg, it likely would not make much of a difference in his golf schedule or even his endorsements, as Steinberg did most of that work.
Steinberg Leaves To Spend More Time...
/...fill in the possibilities here. CAA? William Morris? Steiney And Associates?
Darren Rovell, "Steiney's" go-to source for dissemination, broke the news on Twitter and indeed, Tiger's agent's name has been scrubbed clean of IMGWorld.com.
Tiger: "I’m a lot better off."
/Not really.
The press conference to launch this year's AT&T National at Aronimink offered yet another less-than-pretty look into the world of Tiger Woods' post accident media management. Instead of simply appearing, answering questions and doing his part to promote an event that his name clings to by a thread, Woods used an probably planned-for $1 million foundation donation as a backdoor way of showing the deep rage he holds toward a golf media that once kissed his feet and now which poses straightforward questions about his game and physical well being.
Get Your Tiger Woods Bingo Boards Out...
/It is what it is, it's a process, it's all right in front of you, will follow the docs orders...
MEDIA ALERT
Golf Channel to Air Tiger Woods’ AT&T National News Conference, Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET
ORLANDO, Fla., (May 23, 2011) - Golf Channel Tuesday will air live Tiger Woods’ news conference from Aronimink Golf Club in Newton Square, Penn. Coverage will begin at 11 a.m. ET and will continue until the conference concludes. The news conference is a part of media day for the 2011 AT&T National, a PGA TOUR event benefiting the Tiger Woods Foundation.
Kelly Tilghman will anchor coverage, and will be joined by GolfChannel.com senior writer Jason Sobel from the network’s Orlando studios.
Update on 2011-05-24 15:17 by Geoff
**If you ever want evidence of how delusional the years of media fawning made Tiger and his flunkies, check out these tweets.
First, Greg McLaughlin, the lavishly paid head of Tiger's foundation:
And then Tiger, putting the media in a no-win situation before his press conference:
It really is remarkable that at this point they call a press conference after everything that happened--namely the lies--and hope to get nothing but fawning softballs.
They should be grateful anyone shows to hear a former world No. 1 plug a tournament he may or may not finish.
Update on 2011-05-24 15:23 by Geoff
**And one more attempt at humor that speaks volumes about Tiger really needing professional help to work out his anger toward the media.
