He couldn't hide his real self forever, writes Buzz Bissinger
(NEWSER) - Tiger Woods has suffered the greatest popularity fall opinion polls have ever recorded for a nonpolitician and the inevitable clash between image and reality is to blame, writes Buzz Bissinger. In an era in which sports stars are expected to screw around, he created a public persona as the perfect man—perfectly empty of humanity, perfectly non-threatening, and non-controversial. He was a cipher even to fellow golfers, who got no closer than the press or the public, and a "charming nonperson" to sponsors, able to convey "the noble but totally nebulous concept of 'high performance.'" More»
