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Tiger Woods: Top Brand of the Week (and the ‘buzziest billion-dollar brand,’ too)

Tiger Woods: Top Brand of the Week (and the ‘buzziest billion-dollar brand,’ too)

He may be the most beleaguered entity over the past few days, but he is also the ‘buzziest billion-dollar brand of the week.’ He even surpasses Obama who is buried deep in his healthcare, war, and climate woes (but then again Obama does not model for any commercial product or service for corporate America). Yes, with mistress #6 having just surfaced [...]
Tiger Woods, a Black Man, flexes his muscle in Corporate America

Tiger Woods, a Black Man, flexes his muscle in Corporate America

Celebrities and transgressions are not alien to each other. ‘Plenty of celebrities have admitted to extramarital affairs. But the fascination with Tiger Woods’ “transgressions” has been especially intense.’ It is not simply about adultery this time. Tiger’s fall from grace, already an irresistible public drama, is a melodrama of American [...]
The Business of Tiger Woods’ Star Power

The Business of Tiger Woods’ Star Power

  Tiger Woods need not worry about the fall of his business empire. His commercial sponsors have already come out to say that they will not abandon him despite the sex scandal he is embroiled in right now. His extremely lucrative golf career has earned him ‘a cumulative $1 billion from prize money and off-the-course deals.’ His net worth, [...]
The future of Tiger Woods product endorsements: commercial sponsors are not abandoning the world’s richest sports star

The future of Tiger Woods product endorsements: commercial sponsors are not abandoning the world’s richest sports star

Tiger Woods’ ‘transgressions’ seem to have no effect on his endorsements. Corporate America seems to have no fear of the image of a serially philandering husband. It ‘has no intention of letting go its fierce embrace of Tiger Woods – no matter how many affairs he had.’ The reason is simple: ‘Woods is not only the world’s [...]
Mrs. Tiger Woods: perfect wife image

Mrs. Tiger Woods: perfect wife image

While Tiger Woods used to come across to the public as ‘the best behaved athlete the Western world has ever seen, ‘ his wife is an even more definite and definitive image. Some say Woods has found a perfect match in Elin Nordegren, 29, as his elegant and discreet wife. ‘Since she turned up on his arm in early 2002, Woods’ wife has been not [...]
The Financial Risks in Tiger Woods’ ‘Transgressions’: $100 Million a year

The Financial Risks in Tiger Woods’ ‘Transgressions’: $100 Million a year

The currently much-talked about Tiger Woods sex scandal ‘translates into big money issues for the greatest product endorser in sports history’ because Woods, with his erstwhile squeaky clean public image, is a ‘money machine.’ This soon-to-be-billionaire athlete earns his big bucks not only from golf tournaments but largely from ‘commercial [...]
Breadwinner Wife Stabbed to Death by a Dominating Husband

Breadwinner Wife Stabbed to Death by a Dominating Husband

Sally Sinclair, 40 year old business woman working for Vodafone was stabbed to death by her husband Alisdair. The post mortem examination revealed that the woman was stabbed more than 30 times by variety of kitchen knives and found dead at the property near Amport, Hampshire. She suffered broken ribs and was beaten up badly. Sally was the head of the [...]
Fragile Creatures, Broken Children, Shattered Childhood

Fragile Creatures, Broken Children, Shattered Childhood

The campaign entitled “You can lose more than your patience” is a strong message about the devastation experienced by abused children. The visual of broken porcelain children says it all: children are as fragile as porcelain, and if they ‘break’ and ‘shatter’ under the cruelty of child abuse, their childhood and even their whole life are [...]
All Women Are Created Equal

All Women Are Created Equal

Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women has led to attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping. More often, this stereotype is comparatively considered ‘less,’ ’weak,’ and ‘inferior.’ At times, the attitude towards the disadvantaged sex is contempt, disregard, or hatred. Sexism occurs when [...]
Deaths in new US domestic violence case

Deaths in new US domestic violence case

A man who lived with his family in Ohio allegedly killed his wife and their two children, and then committed suicide. Police in the town of Whitehall, east of Columbus, found the bodies of Mark Meeks, 51, and his wife Jennifer Dallas-Meeks, 40, as well as their children Jimmy, 5, and Abbigail, 8. Sergeant Dan Kelso confirmed to CNN that the four had [...]