*As Tiger Woods sits in a Mississippi treatment facility for sexual addiction, the athlete tops Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s new list of most powerful athletes, beating the likes of LeBron James and fellow golfer Phil Mickelson.
The list released Wednesday is based on earning potential and was compiled with the assistance of CSE and Horrow Sports Ventures.
The companies said Tiger would have ranked No. 1 on the list even if his infidelity had become public earlier last year.
James of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers was second, followed by Mickelson, Albert Pujols of baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals, Peyton Manning of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, Dwyane Wade of the NBA’s Miami Heat, swimmer Michael Phelps, Adrian Peterson of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, the Cavaliers’ Shaquille O’Neal and cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson
In related news, Mickelson spoke about Woods to reporters ahead of the Farmers Insurance Open, which gets under way this weekend at Torrey Pines in San Diego.
“The game of golf needs him to come back,” Mickelson said, speaking for the first time in public since Woods’ confessed to infidelity. “It’s important for him to come back and be a part of the sport. But right now, he’s got a lot more important things going on in his life. Amy and I are good friends with both Tiger and Elin, and we care deeply about how this turns out.”
I saw Michael Phelps on a recent ad, you know the one where he is like swimming through the pavement, and I’m like look at this mo’fok’a. They dropping Tiger left and right, and he still haven’t committed a single crime, or even accused of one. But this yt boy doing dupe and it’s like …
Reds I had the same thought! They gave Phelps the ‘kids will be kids’ pass but Tiger exposed a lifestyle that many of them live and cover up for those doing it. Besides it showing his lack of morals he literally hurt no one but his family – he disappointed friends but they’ll get over it cause he still ain’t broke!
whether he comes back to golf or not, whenever anyone sees him, they’ll just be looking at his dick, waiting for it to strike some unsuspecting piece of white trash.