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Nike hasn’t severed its ties to the meal-ticket known as Tiger yet. But, as the Wall Street Journalis reporting, the brand that had virtually nothing to do with golf until it tattooed itself to the game’s great, disgraced icon is having second thoughts.
Woods may have helped Nike more than $1.5 billion over the last two years, but what has he done for them lately? Read more »
“You want to beat me? Take me to a course with lots of water. I’ll play chicken, because I can’t stand to risk hitting a new ball into a water hazard. It’s like throwing money away, man. Even playing for $100 a hole, I can’t make myself take a chance of losing a $4 ball.” Jim Thorpe, Golf Digest,
Shit happens. Sadly, sometimes, to decent people.
Such, it seems, is the case with three-time PGA Tour winner and frequent Champions Tour victor, Jim Thorpe.
The hard-scrabble golfer with the trademark Panama hat is going on forced sabbatical from golf because he’s been sentenced to a year in prison for tax evasion.
Thorpe, who was raised dirt poor and suffered all the indignations heaped upon black golfers in the era that preceded Tiger Woods’ reign, was never known to take the easy way out of anything. Read more »
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