worldgolf.com - 1/10/2008
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Kelly Tilghman's fast-rising career at Golf Channel has run flat into a brick wall after she brilliantly used the verb "lynch" along with the proper noun "Tiger Woods" in a sentence.
"Report: Golf Channel anchor apologizes for 'lynch' remark"
Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has apologized after saying during Friday's telecast of the PGA Tour's opening event that today's young ...
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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 remarks, let's face it, look at least slightly more tame now that Tilghman's brought lynching into golf commentating.
"Tiger and Kelly are friends and Tiger has a ...
The Golf Channel has no guts and Al Sharpton is a hypocrite
Tim McDonald —
... I figure it’s time to weigh in on the big Kelly Tilghman debate. Everybody else has, so we might as well get an intelligent, well-informed comment. ...
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Tim McDonald —
... and think he’s doing a good job for The Golf Channel and CBS. All those critics who say he should tone down his irreverence are humor-less drones. His humor injects some much-needed irreverence in the game, which has very little. ...
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