Tiger Woods Endorsements Are Safe After Car Crash

Shortly after the story broke on Friday afternoon that Tiger Woods was involved in a car accident, media outlets starting contacting me and asking how the situation might effect Tiger's endorsement deals. The 2009 Sports Illustrated Fortunate 50 List reported that Tiger Woods' total earnings were down about $28 million last year, but for the sixth-consecutive time he topped the list by bringing home an estimated $99,737,626. To put that number in perspective, Phil Mickelson came in a distance second with and estimated $52,950,356, while LeBron James is is reported to have made $42,410,581. As CNNMoney's David Goldman wrote in an excellent article Monday afternoon, Tiger's sponsors are standing by him, and will likely continue to do so. Here's why: Tiger has not been formally charged with anything. Tabloids and pundits are writing that Woods needs to address the rumors that are swirling around the Internet, but legally, Tiger is not required to speak to anyone. With that in mind, why should companies like Nike, Accenture, AT&T, Tag Hauer, Gillette, and Gatorade even consider changing, or ending, their relationship with the man who is one of the most iconic figures in sports? Sure, if the circumstances surrounding Woods's car cash change in the coming days or weeks, companies might reconsider their association with Tiger accordingly. But as Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Kim Montes said in a statement , “Contrary to various media reports, the Florida Highway Patrol has not made any comments regarding the details of the ongoing crash investigation involving Tiger Woods as it relates to medical information, or any other aspect of this investigation.” So don't look for Fortune 500 companies to start changing their marketing plans simply because Tiger Woods is the target de jour of tabloids. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy

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Tiger Woods Endorsements Are Safe After Car Crash

Tiger Woods will NOT play in Cheveron World Challenge

Tiger Woods announced today that he won’t be playing in the tournament he has hosted the last nine years, the Cheveron World Challenge. “I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week. I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I’m very sorry that I can’t be there.” This is

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Golf Greeting Cards – Golf Christmas Cards – Golf Calendars

Now that Christmas is officially looming near, I should mention a couple of places to get some unique golf greeting cards and golf Christmas cards. GolfSketch is a new sponsor here. My buddy Nick is an artist who draws some very cool golf landscapes and golf art. He has greeting cards and calendars which are all

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Bag of the Day: Sergio Garcia

DRIVER: TaylorMade R9 (9.5) with a Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 73 X shaft FAIRWAY WOODS: TaylorMade R9 (15), r7 (17.5) with Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 103 X shafts IRONS: TaylorMade R9 TP (3-PW) with Project X 6.5 shafts WEDGES: TaylorMade rac (54, 58) PUTTER:

Tiger Woods cancells 3rd meeting with police and issues official statement

Tiger has canceled talking to the Florida Highway Patrol a 3rd time and issued an official statement regarding the car crash outside his house at 2:25am a few nights ago: As you all know, I had a single-car accident earlier this week, and sustained some injuries. I have some cuts, bruising and right now I’m pretty

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Transcript of Tiger Woods car crash 911 call

Dispatcher 1: Orange County Sheriffs dispatcher Dispatcher 2: Orange County Fire-Rescue dispatcher Dispatcher 1: 911 whats your emergency? Caller: I have, this is, uh (redacted) in the Isleworth subdivision. I need an ambulance immediately. I have someone down in front of my house. They hit a pole. I came out to see. Dispatcher 1: Is it a

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

The first big snow storm of the year may be arriving now… # waiting for the snow to melt so I can GOLF! # http://bit.ly/5vuT75 # Happy Thanksgiving! # 39 degrees when I tee off today… No blading a 3-iron allowed! #

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Rachel Uchitel denies rumors of affair with Tiger Woods

My phone rang at 7:06am on a Saturday. That better be an emergency or something very important. It was my pal Jay Flemma calling to let me know he’d just interviewed Rachel Uchitel, the woman rumored to have been having an affair with Tiger Woods in a recent article in the National Enquirer. This exclusive

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5th Annual HOG Turkey Awards

It is time for the 5th annual HOG Turkey Awards. This is a time when I reflect back on the golf year and make a short list of some of the biggest turkeys, or what I like to call “boneheads” in golf. First let’s take a look back at the last four year’s turkey award

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Tiger Woods car crash is extremely fishy

Tiger Woods was “injured” in a car crash last night at 2:25am. This is a single vehicle crash. Initial reports had Tiger “seriously” injured, but now the reports are that he had a few lacerations on his face and was unconscious. What IS known: Tiger crashed into a fire hydrant and a tree. Tiger’s wife Elin smashed a

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