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sportsbybrooks.com - 1/8/2008

Golf Commentator Makes Lynching Tiger Remark

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A Golf Channel commentator apologized after making a fore-gettable remark . ( The Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman with Harrison Ford , er, Nick Faldo ) During Friday’s telecast of the Mercedes Benz championships, Kelly Tilghman said that today’s young players should “ lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley .” But a spokesman said Tilghman immediately ...

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