Mickle: You look at someone like Tiger Woods and this episode of infidelity. Does this change the concept of building brands around athletes?
Knight: Not for us. It’s part of the game.
Mickle: With Tiger, a person who was believed to be of more upstanding character beforehand, is it possible to check for everything?
Knight: Obviously, he was one we checked out and he came out clean, and I think he’s been really great. When his career is over, you’ll look back on these indiscretions as a minor blip, but the media is making a big deal out of it right now.
Maybe I minor blip for YOU Philemon . . . . not no blip to me . . . .and probably won't be a minor blip to your bottom line in the next 2 or 3 years.
Wow . . . hadn't seen this, O.B., or any other 'Stevie' mention.
Guess I'm at the end of a very long line.
P.S. When he trots out his P.M. "prick" incident as a badge of 'honor', the barrel is being scraped pretty low:
"I am a straight-up sort of person. I tell it like it is," Williams said.
"Last year, at the same particular point of time, is when I had the confrontation with Phil Mickleson [the world's No 2 ranked golfer]. I didn't lie about it – I called the guy a prick.
"I never said I didn't call him a prick. I never denied one word of what I said.
"I had no knowledge of what Tiger's indiscretion was. And for Rick Reilly to turn around and say that I am a liar and there is no way I couldn't know – and that I should be fired – that is sensational journalism at its height right there.
"I am an honest person. I had no knowledge of what was going on [with Tiger]. If I did, I would say I did."
I am pretty certain straight-up Steve is going to be caught out and proven a liar and "I am a straight-up sort of person" will turn out to be "I am a straight-up sort of liar". You can't believe everything you read in the press but the scale of Tiger's indiscretions make me think it is almost certain that Steve has met some of these mistresses and they are now talking and cashing in. All it takes is one to say she met Steve and his lies will come to haunt him. As for
"I am an honest person. I had no knowledge of what was going on [with Tiger]. If I did, I would say I did."
Are we really expected to believe that when he has so much at stake. If he was smart he would have kept his mouth shut and avoided the press and said nothing. It would seem to me Steve's comments are more likely based around an attempt for self preservation than the truth.
I am pretty certain straight-up Steve is going to be caught out and proven a liar and "I am a straight-up sort of person" will turn out to be "I am a straight-up sort of liar". You can't believe everything you read in the press but the scale of Tiger's indiscretions make me think it is almost certain that Steve has met some of these mistresses and they are now talking and cashing in. All it takes is one to say she met Steve and his lies will come to haunt him. As for
"I am an honest person. I had no knowledge of what was going on [with Tiger]. If I did, I would say I did."
Are we really expected to believe that when he has so much at stake. If he was smart he would have kept his mouth shut and avoided the press and said nothing. It would seem to me Steve's comments are more likely based around an attempt for self preservation than the truth.
At the very least Stevie is guilty of giving bad interview. We've suspected this for a while but he totally set himself up to be proven wrong here. Any photographer with a photo on file of him with a Tigergal could end his days on the bag in an instant. Even if on the off chance he is sincere, his play was very stupid. "No comment" even would have been far better.
Here's some more on the Dr Galea thing from another Canadian paper , the Hamilton Spectator. Home of footballs Tigercats..... In it you will see how great the Dr looks for 50 ( he's been shooting HGH five times a week since he was 40) and find out what the former head of communications for Bill Clinton thinks about the handling of Tigers transgressions. I feel like Larry King for some reason right now.
I dont think Tiger needs a Canadian Doc to get illegal meds, but blood spinning this guy is good at for sure. All of us Canucks are, its like hockey up here. The meds that accompanied the treatment if any could be got anywhere, no? I dont think Tiger will be implicated when the contents of Dr Galea's computer are revealed by the RCMP. Hope not.
Maybe I minor blip for YOU Philemon . . . . not no blip to me . . . .and probably won't be a minor blip to your bottom line in the next 2 or 3 years.
Clown . . . . Stand by your man . . .
Nike sells product.
Accenture sells trust.
Therein lies the difference.
I respect -- and EXpect -- Chairman Phil to 'bull' his position. Nevetheless . . .
With the gap-open end-September breakout (on earnings), two subsequent failed break-outs, lackluster Q-over-Q earnings comparisons, negative historical and forward quarterly sales and growth comparisons, institutional investors (mutual funds) pulling out (-8% before the news), not to mention an extended general market and its main man (and industry) in trouble, NKE at 65 seems a pretty good short. [For the squeamish: Cover at 58 and head toward your nearest financial guru website. LOL!]
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