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(Because I think he is the only one who hasn't, until now)... http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/12/clinton_portis_discusses_tiger.html..snip "Well, I think he's being treated unfair," Portis said of Woods. "Honestly, I always felt like everybody in that position--whether you're a reporter, whether you run a grocery store, whether you're the guy who's doing an endorsement with Tiger--I'm sure in their offices the same thing's going on. I'm sure they've got a lot of hidden secrets, a lot of hidden secret admirers, women that they talk to and everything else. But as an athlete, you're put under a microscope and everybody wants you to be perfect. You just can't have nothing else going on. "And I think for so long, Tiger's image was that of just a perfect person. Nobody wanted to see . Now all of the sudden, you go from loving this man that you admired for all these years, and you find out he has a side woman and all of the sudden you hate him? You know, he's still the same man that you grew to love. I mean, he kept it on wraps. For any man to be able to keep that on wrap for that long, to keep his business . I'm sure this wasn't the first time his wife found out he was probably with somebody else, but it was always hidden, it wasn't in the public eye, it wasn't pressure for her to leave him, there wasn't pressure to ruin their home. I'm sure they got into it before. I doubt that this is the first time she picked up his phone and seen another woman had called him.
"But I say don't get married, if it's not out of your system. I'm not married. You know, I would love to be able to say, I'm a perfect guy, yeah, baby, yeah. I'm not. You know, I'm gonna have temptations. If I find the temptation worth fulfilling, I'm gonna fulfill my temptation. If that ends up getting me in trouble at times, you know, I'll deal with it then. But right now I'm not married, and I'm 28 years old, and I'm gonna enjoy my life.
"So I think for Tiger, I think it turned out bad, everybody's jumping off his bandwagon and judging him all of the sudden--oh, he's such a bad guy. But the same guys saying he's such a bad guy, out of the office I'm sure they're doing the same thing. The people that are pointing fingers, I'm sure they're doing the same thing, but they haven't got caught, or it hasn't been exposed. But I'd say to Tiger, you pack up your family, enjoy what you're doing. If your wife , the kids gonna still love you. Go about your life."
Doc Walker then asked Portis if there's any chance that all of Tiger's accusers are legit, that 14 women all had Tiger relationships.
"Hey Clinton, I said if he could keep that many women a secret, he needed to be...." John Thompson began.
"He needed to be congratulated. I said the same thing," Portis interrupted with a chuckle. "If he could keep that a secret and ain't nobody came out and told , hey, congratulate him. You know, most of the time there's one or two, and you can't keep that a secret. So if he can balance 14 and keep it a secret, congrats. You know, at least he knows what he wants. He don't discriminate, he's not against people, he don't care what your job, what your background is....He knew what he was after."
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Yeah. It's a slow sports day!
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