Tiger Woods Press Conference: Did We Actually Learn Anything?

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Published: February 22, 2010

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For those of you wondering why I haven't yet written about Tiger Woods' speech on Friday, I apologize. I was in sex rehab all weekend, and didn't have internet access.

I'm kidding of course.

But in all seriousness, the reason I haven't commented yet is because I didn't want to rush to judgments right after the speech.

You know how we are as a society, everyone needs to have an opinion, and everyone needs to have one immediately. Half the time it doesn't matter what the subject is, or what you're saying, just as long as you're saying something, and loudly. Stephen A. Smith seems to have made a nice little career doing just that.

Anyway, when it came to Tiger Woods I didn't want to be that guy. I wanted to take in the speech, swallow it, digest it, think about, listen to others opinions, and then step away for a few days and come back refreshed. I wanted to see if I felt the same way on Monday morning that I did Friday afternoon.

So now that I've done that, taken a few days, did some swallowing, digesting, and regurgitating, what do I think of Tiger's speech on Friday? Quite simply, it was a smart, reasonable, well-articulated speech. And at the same time, it taught us absolutely nothing we didn't already know.

For starters, I thought Tiger did several things right. He addressed all the bullet point issues he should have.

He admitted to infidelity and cheating and took sole responsibility for it. He admitted to having a problem and seeking therapy to fix it.

He absolved his wife from being anything other than an innocent bystander in the whole circus he turned their marriage into.

He promised to continue working at his...
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