All eyes on the ball...

Despite what my last blog ends with, I, unfortunately, find it imperative to keep talking about everyone's favorite topic: Tiger Woods. Yesterday morning, at around 8am, I turned on Sportscenter to be informed by the Disney owned station that a “blonde woman has been taken from Woods' home at around 2:30 in the morning to the same hospital where Tiger was treated the week before.” The story was still fresh and very little was known about what exactly had happened, but my interpretation of it, and from the way the news reporters made it sound, was that it was Tiger's wife who had been sent to the ER at, ironically, nearly the same time of the now infamous one-car accident. The combination of the way in which the story was discussed by the reporters and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it, I couldn't help but assume the worst. I quickly found myself weighing the options to what had happened: was there a chance he killed her? Never. Maybe, he does get a little enraged with that golf ball from time to time. No, no, no. Was there a chance she'd checked herself in as a publicity stunt? No, the Woods' aren't ones to wish to be in the spotlight any more than they already are. Was there a chance she'd attempted suicide? All signs lead to yes, and I immediately began to consider what kind of prescription drug she had OD'ed on. Sounds terrible, I know, but the news lives for these stories, ive seen them a hundred times and, when its circumstances like this one, the story almost plays out like a formula or pattern for another celebrity tragedy. Turns out, the woman was his mother-in-law and, after being treated for “stomach pains and fainting” was released and is now resting comfortably at an unnamed Florida home. I'm glad she's alright, but I cant help feeling something is a little fishy about what had happened. Official news that Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren, had moved out of his mansion came moments after the news came back positive about the mother. Does what happened with the mother have anything to do with her moving out or is this all a coincidence? Why was the mother in law even there in the first place? Whenever my mind begins to wander about these topics I can't help but remind myself that this really is NONE of my business, nor is it the reporters who are determined to “get the story straight” for its anxious viewers. It's just high school gossip on the next level. And it blows.