the second thing is the issue of corporate sponsorship. will the new buddhist tiger still be selling anything that is not nailed down and will some of his more troubling partnerships like the government of dubai or chevron be part of the past now that there s a new tiger woods? i think to the first one, this issue of whether or not he was a victim of racism, perhaps because you ve got gloria allred representing that teacher, gloria allred was the same attorney who represented at least one of these alleged mistresses. yes. maybe that adds to what you said, the journalist there did not want to get into maybe salaciousness. i don t know. but i should point out that gloria allred not only represented the teacher she also represented a woman who allegedly got $10 million to not talk. alan, what struck you? i mean, tiger woods talking about he was not nervous in this news conference but he was nervous when he teed off in front of some of those fans. yeah. i think what the guy said wa
thing for tiger to bring up. dave brought up a good point about the questions that weren t asked. one question also that i thought that wasn t asked or at least certainly wasn t addressed in a satisfactory nature was this vanity fair article which has come out and indicated people in his inner circle were aware of what was going on and all along those folks have denied that they knew anything about this. i would really personally like to know which is it? did they know or did they not know? all right. well, jimmy, alan, dave, we ll get you to stand by. when we come back nbc s kerry sanders is talking with fans. what do they think? we ve heard from some of the top sports journalists but what do the fans who will be watching have to say? also courtney hazlett from the scoop.com will be with us. the fans really want to see me play golf again and that felt great. it really did.
gauge the way they feel. i think he ll play well. i think what we really need to watch now from this point going forward is how does he react to people in adverse situations? alan, we see the best of tiger woods over the next few days now that he as jimmy said has been able to exhale and the grimier parts of his story now at least put to the side? yeah, i think it s unlikely we ll see the best of tiger woods. i think we ll see a very good tiger woods, which generally is better than most other golfers. so he ll certainly make the cut. i would expect he ll probably finish top 20. you have to remember the last time he had a layoff like this at a major was 2006 at the u.s. open following his father s death. he came back and shot 76 and missed the cut. similar circumstances. so i don t expect him to win this thing. i expect a top 20 finish. dave, your thoughts before we let you go? well, i learned something today. i learned that the augusta georgia base elementary school teacher gol
me. very politician this is the place for politics and he certainly worked the room like a politician. he received several questions on the performance enhancing drug scandal and seemed to be ready to answer this. is that case closed? his explanation anyway? you know, i don t think it is. i think people will continue to ask questions. one thing that he said in his opening remarks was that he hoped that, you know, in answering these questions today that people could move on from this. i don t think there s any chance in the world that people are going to move on and i think it s going to be really interesting to see the way he handles that. let me bring in dave ziron sports writer and alan bastable senior writer of golf magazine. dave, you ve been pretty blunt. what did you think of h q & a and answers today? this is his first media appearance where he didn t appear animatronic. i thought it was a terrific success for tiger. he seemed human. for the first time he spoke