thebiglead.com - 1/9/2008
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It probably won’t become an SAT question, but perhaps a sports editor will ask you this next time you apply for a job: what do Kelly Tilghman , Jimmy the Greek and Fuzzy Zoeller have in common? Answer: White people who’ve made terribly insensitive and racist remarks on air!
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Kelly Tilghman of The Golf Channel makes a very insensitive remark about Tiger Woods. [The Big Lead]
Check out this really, really awful halftime show (the name of the ...
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Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman owes her career to Tiger Woods for accepting apology —
Chris Baldwin
Everything would have turned out a lot different for the Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman if Tiger Woods hadn't taken it upon himself to try and make her "lynch" remarks go away.
Tilghman has to know that. She has to know that being a friend of Tiger's, on the fringe of his inner circle, saved her from herself.
For Tiger's done for Tilghman what he wouldn't do for Fuzzy Zoeller - whose ...
The Kelly Tilghman Video —
Intentional Foul
In case you’ve missed it, Golf Channel analyst, Kelly Tilghman did her best Fuzzy Zoeller impression when, discussing Tiger’s dominance with Nick Faldo, suggested the younger golfers should, “Lynch him in a back alley.” Needless to say, Tilghman’s mic’d brilliance didn’t go over very well.
Embracing the damage control reaction, Tilghman issued an ...
Kelly Tilghman Says Other Golfers Should "Lynch Tiger Woods In A Back Alley" —
FanIQ Blog
If you had Kelly Tilghman in your "First Female Member of Augusta Pool," go ahead and pat yourself on the back.
Golf Channel's Tilghman, who's the first full-time female play-by-play broadcaster in the history of the PGA Tour, opted for a poor choice of words during coverage of the tour's opening event. She channeled her inner Fuzzy Zoeller and suggested that today's ...
Unfortunate choice of words directed at Woods —
Sports Scope
First, it was Fuzzy Zoeller. Now, Kelly Tilghman of The Golf Channel is under scrutiny for a comment made about Tiger Woods. On the air during Friday's telecast of the Mercedes-Benz Championship, Tilghman said golf's young players should "lynch Tiger...
