I'm dating myself a bit here, and not a golf fan at all, just noticed the story and thought of Jimmy the Greek...who at least had the excuse of being an uneducated bookie who predated the present climate of PC behavior.
Just seems a little unfair to me. I guess educated, attractive females can make little faux pas and it's excusable. Guys are just screwed. Hate it for you.
bigbuck
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I don't think so. I think a man would have been suspended, too.
Jimmy the Greek actually believed what he said. Kelly Tilghman's remarks were in jest and were not meant to be harmful. Some people are still too sensitive for Kelly to get off scott free (see "Jim Brown", "Al Sharpton").
Deano7275
Why are we still discussing this? Its a dead issue. Let it go.
Andy, get your facts straight. Kelly had nothing to do with the picture of the noose on the cover of Golfweek. She works for the Golf Channel, not Golfweek. The editor of that magazine got fired for letting the thing get published and posted all over the net. I think what he did was far more severe than Kelly. She was trying to make a joke that drastically backfired in her face. This guy actually printed a picture of a friggin noose and put it on the cover of a nationally distributed magazine. Kelly dosnt deserve to be fired, but that guy sure as hell did.
Tim H
She wasn't fired because this wasn't a story until Al Sharpton got involved, and the golf channel didn't have the golf balls to stand up to him.
But now, because Sharpton got involved, a lot more people know who Kelly Tilghman, and will watch her.
Another crusade backfiring on poor old Al.
houzepw
I think the real problem here is that the media won't let it go. She said she was sorry, Tiger said he understood that she didn't mean anything by it.
END OF STORY. MOVE ON.
I'm not directing this comment towards you, but to ESPN, and any other sports news reporters who had nothing to do with the incident, but love to keep stuff stirred up.
danbunn17
I don't think that she would have been fired had she been a man- if as a man, he/she owned the mistake as fast as Kelly did. She said it and immediately regretted the error. She was not being racist, she made a mistake. We all have said things and regretted it immediatley. We are in a era of people with skin that is WAY too thin........