http://www.fairmontflyer.com/athletics/2010/02/03/woods-and-other-athletes-fall-from-grace/ The school newsmagazine of Kettering Fairmont High School Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:40:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.fairmontflyer.com/athletics/2010/02/03/woods-and-other-athletes-fall-from-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Paqui Toscano Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:25:25 +0000 http://www.fairmontflyer.com/?p=2477#comment-418 Kelly, I love your story! I wish it could've been about a lighter topic though -- it's a shame we have to be covering stories about athletes who "fall from grace." But then again, it's part of the news, and athletes are humans like everyone else in the end, I guess. Just because a lot of people may look up to them, doesn't make them infallible. I also enjoyed (well maybe that's not the right word, but you get the point) reading about other athletes who fell from grace in the past. I hear a lot of adults in the wake of these types of events saying things like, "society's going to pot," or "what has the world come to?" But we've got to remember that athletes have always been human and they're always going to be and because of that they're prone to making mistakes. This is not just something that happened recently. Even before Pete Rose, you had Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox Scandal in the World Series -- early 20th Century. I can't help feeling bad for Tiger Woods even though he made such a hurtful, stupid, and fool-hardy mistake. He put his career on temporary hold, and he lost a lot of his sponsorships (I slightly question whether those companies should've dropped him for something he did outside his professional career, however). But in the end, I think, the true sympathy go to his family -- his wife and kids. How could he do this to them? At any rate, the world's going to still turn around its axis regardless of how many mistakes athletes make; truth be told, a lot of idiot guys commit adultery and have affairs. The difference is, Tiger Woods accepted his role as a role model, as you said in your story, and he should have done what was right and respectable. I think everyone's entitled to make mistakes, but when you're in the public eye, you should act even more responsibly, especially when you know hundreds of children are looking up to you across the country each and every day. Kelly, I love your story! I wish it could’ve been about a lighter topic though — it’s a shame we have to be covering stories about athletes who “fall from grace.” But then again, it’s part of the news, and athletes are humans like everyone else in the end, I guess. Just because a lot of people may look up to them, doesn’t make them infallible. I also enjoyed (well maybe that’s not the right word, but you get the point) reading about other athletes who fell from grace in the past. I hear a lot of adults in the wake of these types of events saying things like, “society’s going to pot,” or “what has the world come to?” But we’ve got to remember that athletes have always been human and they’re always going to be and because of that they’re prone to making mistakes. This is not just something that happened recently. Even before Pete Rose, you had Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox Scandal in the World Series — early 20th Century.
I can’t help feeling bad for Tiger Woods even though he made such a hurtful, stupid, and fool-hardy mistake. He put his career on temporary hold, and he lost a lot of his sponsorships (I slightly question whether those companies should’ve dropped him for something he did outside his professional career, however). But in the end, I think, the true sympathy go to his family — his wife and kids. How could he do this to them? At any rate, the world’s going to still turn around its axis regardless of how many mistakes athletes make; truth be told, a lot of idiot guys commit adultery and have affairs. The difference is, Tiger Woods accepted his role as a role model, as you said in your story, and he should have done what was right and respectable. I think everyone’s entitled to make mistakes, but when you’re in the public eye, you should act even more responsibly, especially when you know hundreds of children are looking up to you across the country each and every day.

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