Tiger Woods

Charles Howell III, a fellow PGA Tour player, spoke to Tiger Woods at a practice range and said he appeared to be in good shape.

While Olympic athletes like Lindsey Vonn and Apolo Ohno will probably have plenty of sponsorship deals, other successful Americans may have a harder time.

Gatorade officially cut its ties to Tiger Woods on Friday, one week after he admitted to extramarital affairs and said he was unsure when he would return to golf.

A spokesperson for Gatorade confirmed late Friday that it had ended its relationship with the golfer. Gatorade will continue its relationship with the Tiger Woods Foundation.

Tiger Woods’s statement last week had the ring of the first step toward treatment of an addiction. One hopes he becomes less Tiger and more Eldrick.

Sex addiction is not yet recognized as a psychiatric disorder, but doctors have long realized that some patients ruin their lives because of sex.

Tiger Woods’s public apologia was the latest installment in his love/hate relationship with the media. But even then he managed to enforce Tiger Rules.

A golfer whose public image was largely media driven did the right thing by making a public statement.

Whether Tiger Woods’s competitors on the PGA Tour believed his statement was sincere or not, they all want him back playing as soon as possible.

Tiger Woods’s apology wasn’t bad. But most are unsatisfying. A taxonomy of the form, from the self-pitying “Mark McGwire” to the the dread “John Edwards.”