As IF Times

link EXCLUSIVE: Porn Star Shopping Alleged Tiger Woods Sex Tape To XXX Company Vivid — Top Level Talks Today | Radar Online.

This story underscores people’s natural inclination towards capitalism and entrepreneurship.  Our poor gal, Devon James, not seemingly endowed with anything other than an inability to say no, decides to try her hand at business.  Technically, she had always been self employed, but the tryst with Tiger presented an opportunity to make revenue in bunches rather than the way she would normally do it: piece by piece as it were.

She now claims that there is a video tape of Tiger and herself in, how shall we say,  flagrante delicto.  After performing an intricate series of calculations involving present value, interest rates, exchange fluctuations and moon phases, she concludes that the value of this tape is worth at least $350,000.  Nobody should snicker at this because the calculations for all collectible art are made in more or less the same way.  Apparently, porn distributor Vivid Entertainment would be interested at this price level. Or perhaps even Tiger himself for posterity.  He can file it under PRO-AMS, where in this case, he would be the amateur.

The factor of potential embarrassment to Tiger may be one of the factors in determining the $350,000 price tag for the cinematic treasure and  that’s a fair bit of change, certainly more than any movie Michael Moore will make again.  This of course begs the question, why would Tiger be embarrassed?  This whole episode has already cost him his marriage plus a few hundred million dollars plus perhaps a place in history. So what would embarrass him? That he had carnal relations with a woman?  Hardly embarrassing.  The world didn’t think he dated these women to talk swing changes.  Would he be embarrassed about perhaps physical shortcomings?  Unlikely.  Tiger is not known to leave his putts short.  I think perhaps the only thing that could be seen as possibly embarrassing is if he insisted the gals put on Phil Mickelson masks.  In that case, $350,000 may be cheap.

But you can’t blame a gal for trying.  With her loose lips and resultant declining client list, another major may be hard to get in her lifetime.  Tsk tsk to poor Tiger.  He shouldn’t have been playing out of bounds.

link Mickelson leads Masters; Kim and Westwood 3 back – Yahoo! News.

The right guy won.  Of course, it’s only golf and it’s only a game, but given the drama surrounding the playing of this year’s Masters tournament, the victory was indeed special and emotional for Phil Mickelson whose wife Amy is recovering from cancer.  It was hard not to join into the emotion as the couple embraced after the victory.  It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, a class guy and a credit to the game.

On another note, the other guy who drew so much attention to this tournament gave a pretty terse assessment of his game in post game interviews:

“…That’s not what I wanted,” said Woods, playing for the first time in five months since a sex scandal severely damaged his reputation. “I wanted to win this tournament. As the week went along, I kept hitting the ball worse. It was not very good.”

and,

“…I only enter events to win,” Woods said. “I didn’t hit the ball good enough and made too many mistakes around the green. As a result, I’m not there.”

A particularly arrogant remark given the depth of talent in the field.  It’s as if he dismisses them all as mere background fillers for the Tiger show.  While Woods certainly is possesed of great talent, humility is certainly not in in his makeup. This fact alone may always tarnish his legacy as much as his interesting personal adventures.  After all that’s happened in the past 5  months, the entitlement and petulance still shows through.  Noticeably absent were any congratulatory words to the winner as a minimum  matter of graciousness, but certainly expected at a place like Augusta.  There very much is an I in Tiger.  By the way, he did shoot a 69; maybe just a coincidence.