FanIQ.com - 1/9/2008
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If you had Kelly Tilghman in your "First Female Member of Augusta Pool," go ahead and pat yourself on the back.
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1st Augusta National Female Member For 100, Alex
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
“Critical Fanatic” at FANIQ.com has the video most of us haven’t seen - Kelly Tilghman making her inadvisable crack about “lynching” Tiger Woods.
The post also has launches this amusing blast: ” If you had Kelly Tilghman in your ‘First Female Member of Augusta Pool,’ go ahead and pat yourself on the back.”
We now know our Whoopi Goldberg first round selection was a bit of a reach.
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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 apology to Woods and being the media savvy individual he is, Tiger let her off the hook by saying her comments were a non-issue.
Anyway, here’s the video, courtesy of SbB (via FanIQ). It was said both chuckled awkwardly, but I’ll think you’ll find it was ...
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weblogs.cltv.com 1/9/2008 — Why isn’t the Golf Channel firing, or at the very least disciplining anchor Kelly Tilghman?
I’m wondering why she would use the word “lynch” in a professional conversation? When most reasonable people hear the word lynch, it brings up images from the 40s, 50s, 60s, etc. of African-Americans in the south hanging from nooses.
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epiccarnival.com 1/9/2008 — by Brian P. Foley , The College Baseball Blog Kelly Tilghman who is the lead announcer for the Golf Channel made a comment during Friday's round of the Mercedes Championship that golf young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley." We ...
1st Augusta National Female Member For 100, Alex
sportsbybrooks.com 1/9/2008 — “Critical Fanatic” at FANIQ.com has the video most of us haven’t seen - Kelly Tilghman making her inadvisable crack about “ lynching ” Tiger Woods.
The post also has launches this amusing blast: ” If you had ...
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golfweek.com 1/9/2008 — Before this little non-story that has led to the unnecessary two-week suspension of Kelly Tilghman grows more legs than a catepillar, allow me to weigh in with two words learned at an age when people put caterpillars in jars: Stop it. Sure, Kelly ...
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Golf Channel anchor suspended 2 weeks (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - Golf News 1/10/2008
Golf Channel suspended anchor Kelly Tilghman for two weeks on Wednesday for saying last week that young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should "lynch him in a back alley." Tilghman was laughing during the exchange Friday with analyst Nick ...
TILGHMAN BANNED 2 WEEKS —
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