Today I'm just giving you a link, but it's one helluva link! ESPN reporter Wright Thompson has spent something over a year doing a piece on the last decade of Tiger's life, since his dad died. It's called The Secret History of Tiger Woods and, unlike so many things that have been written, it's a huge piece -- around 11,000 words -- and Thompson talked to a lot of people who know him, like Michael Jordan and other friends.
I haven't read the whole thing yet -- as I said, it's huge -- but ESPN had Thompson on some of their shows Thursday and spent an entire episode of Outside the Lines talking to Thompson. And Thompson's take on what Tiger has gone through is very different from what you might expect...
In essence, Thompson said he has been struck by means of just how much Tiger is just like the relaxation people. And he said that all of us who learns about what Tiger has been thru and would not sense compassion for him actually isn't human.Ironically, Thompson also said he doesn't intend to be an apologist for Tiger. It's just that his investigation found that Tiger is a mass of contradictions just like the rest of us, a introvert who is far more comfortable playing with his kids and the dog or reading a book than being a superstar, a son who struggled with his father's death more deeply than most fans realize.
The piece is, in big element, about the complicated dating among Tiger and his dad. And among what I heard from the writer on TV and what I've study up to now, that is a charming piece that I have no problem recommending. It's now not about Tiger the celebrity however about Tiger the man or women, and that is unusual.
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