Tiger Woods went from making $92 million in endorsements in 2008 to $70 million in 2009 -- and this news has been widely discussed by major news outlets. Excuse me if I don't cry. Forbes magazine lists Woods' pre-tax income in 2009 at around $110 million. (This amount includes endorsements, prize winnings at tournaments and overseas appearance fees.) But, Sports Illustrated says that Woods has made more than $90 million already in the past 12 months. I'm sure he'll be all right after his $22 million in losses.
It's really not rational to discuss the financial consequences of a multimillionaire's financial decline when most people will not see even a $1 million in their lifetime. But, let's be completely real for a moment.
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Top Ten Sexiest Black CEOs
10. Tiger Woods: CEO of Tiger Woods, Inc.
Woods might have gotten into trouble with his wife, but the dozen or so women who seemed to be madly in love with him can't be wrong. As CEO of Tiger Woods, Inc., the platinum golfer presides over a billion-dollar brand.
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Top Ten Sexiest Black CEOs
10. Tiger Woods: CEO of Tiger Woods, Inc.
Woods might have gotten into trouble with his wife, but the dozen or so women who seemed to be madly in love with him can't be wrong. As CEO of Tiger Woods, Inc., the platinum golfer presides over a billion-dollar brand.
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9. Rodney O'Neal: Chief Executive Officer and President, Delphi
At 56, Rodney O'Neal still has the charm and good looks of a man half his age, but the sexy power that only a seasoned captain of industry can flaunt.
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8. Kenneth I. Chenault: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the American Express Company
At 58 years young, Ken Chenault is one of the smoothest and well-regarded CEOs of any color in corporate America.
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7. Dr. Farrah Gray: Author and Co-CEO of Realty Pros Real Estate Asset Management
It's easy to be sexy at the age of 26, but what makes Farrah Gray extra attractive is the stack of accomplishments he has achieved at such a young age.
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6. Russell Simmons: CEO of Rush Entertainment and Phat Pharm
Russell keeps his sexy by staying connected to youth culture, veganism and yoga. You've gotta love him!
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5. Tina Wells: CEO of Buzz Marketing Group
Playboy.com was the first to recognize that this vibrant young woman is both intelligent and sexy. The site praises Ms. Wells for her combination of toughness and charm. Perfect combination!
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4. Sylvia Rhone: Former CEO of EastWest Records and Elektra Records
While technically no longer a CEO, Sylvia Rhone is so sexy and so accomplished, that we had to include her on the list. Her great accomplishments in the realm of the music business continue to this day.
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3. Clarence Otis, Jr.: CEO of Darden Restaurants
You might not know the appealing Clarence Otis, Jr., but we are sure you adore his food. As the CEO of Darden Restaurants Otis oversees eateries we love like Red Lobster and Olive Garden at the highest level.
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2. Sean "Diddy" Combs: CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment
We love Diddy for many reasons. The money, the power and the fame are part of it. But his lifestyle that is the perfect combination of street and high-end keeps us fascinated.
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1. Iman: CEO of Iman Cosmetics
At 54, Iman is as stunning as she was the day she started modeling in 1976. Beautiful inside and out, Iman proves that gorgeous goes well with executive power. We salute you!
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Tiger Woods is not hurting financially and neither are his agents or his representatives. That $22 million represents about 25 percent of his annual income, so there is plenty more where that came from. Plus, even though Woods lost $22 million in endorsement deals since the fallout from his extramarital affairs, his income has actually been on a decline since it peaked in 2008. That year he earned about $128 million.
As his marriage fell apart, Woods lost endorsements deals with Accenture, AT&T and Gatorade. The Gatorade deal was for $100 million extending into 2012, Accenture was for $7 million a year and the AT&T contract made up the difference. Both Gillette and Tag Heuer plan to limit the use of Woods in ads but have not completely withdrawn their from contracts from him. There is a chance that Tiger could eventually win these endorsement deals back and more, if he gets his game back and public sentiment swings his way.
Woods has been the
highest earning athlete for the past seven years, and he is still ranked among the most popular. Through scandals and great financial losses, he remains on top. For the time being at least, the Tiger Woods brand is alive and well.
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By: tbass on 7/24/2010 12:52PM
I think there is more important news than to waste the readers time with this article. Woods put imself in this position. When you play, at some point you have to pay.
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By: JOAN on 7/24/2010 1:51PM
NOT MANY...IF ANY....HAVE 22MIL TO LOSE. WOODS KNOWS HIS POSITION. MIGHT HAVE WANTED TO GET OFF TOP OF THE LADDER....IT WAS LONELY UP THERE...LOL.
ONE THING IS FOR SURE.....IT WILL BE A LOOOOOOOOOOG TIME BEFORE ANY ACHIEVES WHAT HE HAS DONE...IN 30YRS. MONEY IS NICE...BUT, NOT EVERYTHING IN THIS WICKED WORLD. YES, THE WORLD LIKES...BACKYARD...GOSSIP.
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By: kiki on 7/24/2010 8:59PM
Anybody know any pro golfers that need a nanny? I'm available....willing to dye my hair blond and go to the dentist and have an overbite put in my front teeth....hey, it worked once...
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By: You Know Who on 7/24/2010 3:37PM
You are 100% correct,they should get off of Tiger's back. He screwed himself, Obama's screwing everybody in America. Have a great week-end, check your bank balances and other assets. Relax , retired gangster LA county. Going to church in the morning, pray for everybody !!! Johnnie Cochran and I understood the system , bothers and sisters.
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By: Edward Johnson on 7/25/2010 7:54PM
Obama isn't scewing America. Bush did that and you didn't say a word.Now you want blam the problems on President Obama. Get a life.
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By: Watcher Watchmen on 7/26/2010 9:36AM
TIGER TOPIC:
But Side-Bar @ Edward Johnson.
Don`t debate with insanity unless your intent is to use their systemically protected innate stupidity as a teaching moment for others.
As we will be do HERE!
THOSE particular class of Whites had Obama ``ORDAINED to be BLAMED`` for the screw-up whites have caused PRIOR to Obama`s presidency, yet alone before his being a presidential candidate.
Even while Obama became the President-Elect, Notice how the white media rushed to TIE Obama into the THEN economical crises, including the Iraq War!
(as if to prep for the blame)
But Obama, UTILIZING his Harvard Law School Talents and Intellectual Common sense, made is clear that he was NOT the PRESIDENT, he IS the Presidential-ELECT! and that PRESIDENT BUSH! Was STILL the president of the United States OF America.
(Which unwittingly suspended the `BLAME-OBAMA-GAME` for a later time.)
With all the derogatory remarks and/or general dislike of blacks many whites are still holding on to, along with all their generations worth of portraying and religiously believing blacks are less than human, monkeys, low IQ`s and every other devilishness they dug out of THEMSELVES to SAY against blacks, as well as the images/documents/literatures THEY GENERATE and SHOW against blacks, (Because relying on negative self evidence kept challenging their views), Why else would at a time of world crises, they hand the country off to a black man?
So if the economy falls while under a black person`s rule, those whites can USE THAT to say **SEE?** what blacks did!
(while raking/hiding away their white trails, which told a different story.)
Paraphrasing the past event:
But the BLAME-plans was foiled when Obama did the unthinkable, the unanticipated, the unexpected, he actually SAVED THE ECONOMY, ERGO, The country!
Which threw off all those greedy white devils who stood much to gain by getting away scot-free with all the monies they`ve stolen out of the economy to later be called a *WASH-LOSS* following the intended AND STAGED collapse of the Country/Economy.
Obama, again UTILIZING his Harvard Educated Knowledge, common sense and more, took emergency measures to save the ECONOMICAL-SHIP from sinking as the seawaters splashed up on deck while he was being HANDED the steering wheel.
Whose whites who stood to grossly capitalize on the sunken ship, (economical destruction) couldn`t believe their eyes when the ship actually stabilized into ever smoothing buoyancy, follow by their eye-popping site in disbelief observing Obama and crew providing life rafts to those KEY-CREWMEN who`ve gone overboard.
That wasn`t supposed to happen.
So then plan –B when into action. Demonized President Obama while cleverly wording their approach to appear the crashed Economy was Obama`s Fault and is adding to the deficit. (Follow by a precalculated tack-on comment), That Your Children(s) Will Pay For! –As if the pre-existing trillion-dollar deficit (under BUSH) was meant to just `DISAPPEAR`.
(Get him out of office! things are looking ok now! And get at those COOKED-BOOKS before Obama finds them!)
This almost worked until Obama made it clear that he didn`t CAUSE the deficit he INHERITED IT.
Those Whites didn`t know what to make of that, they didn`t intend for their black FALL-GUY to actually BE INTELLIGENT TOO.
Plan –C was then called to action, perpetual negative, racist and fear stirring propagandas. The effects aren`t immediate, but by hacking away at the BLACK-President (blacks in general), on an hourly/daily bases, using every conceivable tactics long studied to have worked under these and other premeditated conditions, eventually it will take hold and birth onto its own beast!.
Then those class of whites from the group who admitting `WISH THE PRESIDENT WOULD FAIL` Could then come strolling into the podiums as knights in shining amour followed by all their `REPAIR` antics.
While the trillions already missing BEFORE Obama`s presidency, remains unrecovered.
(Or written off and divvied up.)
WARNING! Suddenly (after decades of being systemically kept at bay), `AFRICA` is getting a revamp of allowances and growth and population preparations, while there`s also a sudden `Public` upswing in whites (including whiter-skinned males this time) that are openly pairing themselves off with darker people of color.
(Something only done in secret due to avoiding the embarrassment upon their White Supremacy Rules/Beliefs that held strong for generations.)
But upon the `white` presidency that succeeds Obama, don`t be surprised of a forced exodus followed by the very last genocidal battle against blacks.
Black Men in Particular, the White Man`s most innately abhorred (induced by involuntary fear) Challenger.
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By: chris on 7/24/2010 4:21PM
Just because Tiger had sex with every nasty whore he could, doesnt make him a bad guy. What makes him lower than crap, is he could have infected his wife with Aids!! Did he care? Hell no!!! So 700 million is not enough!If he had infected her, he would be behind bars. There he could have a bogy free round!!!!!!!!
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By: theladyndreads on 8/02/2010 6:27PM
He did not give her aids. She Knew he was a cheater when she married him. She knew what she was getting into she wanted his money from the beginning. nobody is wortth 750 million. What did she do to earn that? Five years is not worth 750 million. She's a gold digging white woman who sold out for the money.
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By: tricia on 7/24/2010 4:50PM
Why is it that they are still so focus on Tiger Woods? I taught that this is something between him and his wife to handle not us. He was never a role model to myself or my kids, so can you focus on more important things.
1. Tiger losses 22 million.... i don't think Tiger, his wife or his kids will be hurting over this. Can Tiger help the economy so myself and the rest of America can get our jobs back and take care of our kids. We don't have NANNIES AND TAKING POWER OUT TRIPS. We can't even send our kids on a trip plus pay our mortgages. Get the hell over it now .
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By: VelvetVixen on 7/27/2010 9:02AM
Losing 22 milly.. is only the beginning. When they finish with him, he'll be 100% worthless. LOL.
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