Your AP Athlete of the Decade is... Tiger Woods
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The Associated Press has voted Tiger Woods as the Athlete of the Decade. He received 56 votes... coincidentally, Woods bested second-place Lance Armstrong by 23 votes.The rest of the field includes Roger Federer with 25 votes, Michael Phelps with 15, Tom Brady with six and sprinter Usain Bolt with four.
We realize that one has nothing to do with the other. Regardless of how you feel about Tiger Woods' sex life, there is no arguing his achievements on the golf course.
Still, it looks a bit funny for the AP to announce Tiger as their Athlete of the Decade while his wife is possibly moving to Sweden, advertisers are dropping him like he's hot and he's announced he's taking an indefinite leave from golf.
We can't help but think the votes may be different if they were cast today.
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That's one of the best leads I've seen on a story in a long time. As you say, though, what he does off the course is irrelevant. Wilt Chamberlain's romantic conquests apparently ran into the triple digits, but people remember him as a great basketball player. Who cares what Woods does in the bedroom - our business should be what he does on the golf course.
Good point about Chamberlain's many, many conquests. People just love to make sports figures into near-gods/goddesses, but they're not really that much different from the average Joe/Josephina. What sets them apart is that they can play a game well; others among us can't begin to do the same, but we all have strengths and weaknesses, same as any athlete. I defy any golfer, football player or rugby player to spend a week substitute teaching in kindergarten. Of the two, I'd say dealing with 24 five-year-olds every day beats playing golf on a Sunday in terms of difficulty.
The difference between Tiger Woods and the rest of us, of course, is that if most of us cheated on our spouses, we wouldn't get national headlines--more likely, we'd get a rolling pin upside the head. Or maybe run over three times with an SUV. :P
But was Wilt Chamberlain married? not saying that is 100% determinative, but if he wasn't married at the time of his "conquests," then it's not altogether comparable to Tiger's situation.
Nevertheless, i do agree, Tiger's cheating is primarily an issue for his own family to deal with. but i think the large numbers of affairs involved and Tiger's large fame level, combined with his clean-cut, image made it endlessly fascinating to the media/public. yeah, if he had been the average joe no one outside his circle would've cared. but he isn't, he's famous, and thus goes the dark side of that fame.
p.s. hi Aaron R.
I don't agree with the results!If you compare Tiger Woods to what Roger Federer has done, you would see that Roger deserves it more! He has won 15 majors (all in this decade) and now has the record for the most. Tiger has 14 (but only 12 this decade), and still has 5 more to go to break the record of Jack Nicklaus . It shows the arrogance of the AP, most of which are American!