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The Official Site of the PGA TOUR - PGATOUR.com. Tiger: I let down my family. Tiger Woods scandal update: Fans attack Woods calling him 'phony', 'fake' and 'fraud' - National Celebrity Fitness and Health. Gatorade Loses Its Thirst for Tiger Woods - Sex Scandals, Tiger Woods. Sex Scandals By Catherine Donaldson-Evans 02/26/2010 at 06:25 PM EST Tiger Woods has been dumped again by a corporate sponsor, this time by Gatorade.
A spokeswoman for the drink maker, sold by PepsiCo, confirmed Friday that it had discontinued its endorsement deal with the scandal-plagued golf star. "We no longer see a role for Tiger in our marketing efforts and have ended our relationship," Jennifer Schmit said in a statement. "We wish him all the best. " Woods, 34, last week apologized publicly for his string of marital infidelities and said he alone is to blame for the indiscretions, which first came to light after he crashed his SUV into a tree on Nov. 27. Accenture and AT&T are the other two companies to drop their sponsorship contracts with Woods.
AT&T ends sponsorship of scandal-hit Tiger Woods. Nike. Stevie Williams doubts Tiger Woods will reach record Jack Nicklaus' majors record - News. Updated Nov 15, 2011 6:57 PM ET Tiger Woods wants to bury the past. In his mind, the public spat with his estranged caddie, Steve Williams, is over and won’t overshadow this week’s Presidents Cup, where Williams is working for Australian Adam Scott. “It’s already done,” Woods said Tuesday at Royal Melbourne. “I addressed it last week and as I said, life goes forward, not backwards.” For Williams, not so much. The outspoken New Zealander, who was embroiled in a controversy after making racially tinged remarks about Woods two weeks ago at a dinner in Shanghai, has opened up about all things Tiger. In a New Zealand television interview on the program "In Depth with Graham Bensinger," which took place before his comments in China, Williams predicted that Woods won’t achieve his lifelong dream — to break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 majors.
“He has to have a career equal to Phil Mickelson from here on in,” Williams said, just to equal Nicklaus. “It was a big thing, there’s no two ways about it. Tiger Woods' Deal With Gillette Won't Be Renewed. PORTLAND, Ore. — Procter & Gamble Co. will not renew its endorsement deal with Tiger Woods at the end of the year, adding another name to the list of companies that cut ties with the golfer after last year's revelations of marital infidelities.
The company used Woods, Roger Federer, Lionel Messi and dozens of other athletes as part of its three-year "Gillette Champions" marketing campaign. Gillette said Thursday it was phasing out that program and not renewing the contract with Woods and several other athletes. It stopped using Woods himself in the campaign months ago. The golfer was once the most sought-after pitchman in sports and was the first athlete to earn $1 billion from endorsement agreements. However, many corporations cut ties or distanced themselves from Woods after the scandal that broke just over a year ago and dominated headlines for months. Accenture LLP, AT&T Inc. and Gatorade all dropped Woods as an endorser. Tiger Woods scandal cost shareholders up to $12 billion. Tiger Woods sex scandal changed sports reporting forever - News. Updated Nov 23, 2010 6:54 PM ET Happy anniversary, Tiger!
Hard to believe it’s been only a year since the world’s most beloved, clean-cut, fresh-faced sports icon and high-end product pusher attacked an as-yet-unrevealed hard object with his theretofore fresh face. A lot has changed in the past 12 months. After a record 281 straight weeks at the top, Tiger Woods is now ranked No. 2 behind Lee Westwood. Elin Nordegren is now “independently” wealthy. And the sports-media consumer’s appetite for the salacious has gone from merely peckish to desperately ravenous. I suppose we knew intuitively that casual sports fans were more interested in sex than sports, and it probably figured that even diehard sports fans were more interested in sex than sports. But we didn’t know the Mega Sports Celebrity Sex Scandal v. Tiger Woods didn’t invent the sports sex scandal. Some highlights: In 1949 poor Eddie Waitkus had the worst sports sex scandal of all time, since it excluded the sex.