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2023:Tiger Woods Goes Viral For All The Wrong Reasons At Riviera

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(LOS ANGELES) — Tiger Woods had some explaining to do Friday about a putter so cold that he nearly missed the cut at Riviera and a chauvinist prank he played on Justin Thomas at the Genesis Invitational.

Woods stirred in the opening round of his return to elite competition for the first time in seven months.

It started with a 323-yard drive, 10 yards longer than Thomas’ 29-year-old drive. Woods put something in Thomas’ hand as they walked off the tee, which Thomas tossed to the ground when he realized what it was — a tampon, to remind him that Woods hit it farther. Woods laughed and wrapped his arm around Thomas’s shoulders.

When the moment was posted, social media exploded. After Woods made a rare putt on Friday, a fan yelled, “Tampon!” at him.

Woods apologized after finishing with a bogey-bogey 74 in the second round, which put him over the projected cut line. By the end of the day, he had advanced far enough that he was certain to be present for the weekend. He trailed Max Homa by 11 shots.

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Tiger Didn’t Play Well That Day

“It was supposed to be all fun and games, and obviously, that hasn’t happened,” Woods said. “I apologize if I offended anyone in any way, shape, or form. It was never meant to be that way. We just play pranks on each other ae time, and I don’t think this came across that way virally.”

Outside of cursing after bad shots, Woods rarely draws this much attention to himself inside the ropes.

The golf was not much better.

He missed birdie opportunities and par chances late, and his finish was the polar opposite of his opening round when he closed with three consecutive birdies for a 69.

Woods missed a 5-foot birdie chance two holes after coming within inches of an ace on the par-3 14th, his fifth hole of the round.

“I didn’t putt very well today,” Woods admitted. “I blocked a lot of putts early, and this is probably the highest score I could have shot today. Probably should have shot five or six shots better than this. I didn’t make the putts early and in the middle of the round when I had the chance. And they weren’t particularly difficult putts.”

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Missing Spots And Chips Into The Holes

Even after missing his target on the par-3 sixth hole, the famous green with a bunker in the middle, he was still 2 under for the tournament. The ball rolled down the green’s edge to the front, and the pin was cut to the top left.

He studied various options with his arms crossed and a lob wedge in his hands. He could have pitched it behind the green and up the slope, letting it run back toward the hole.

“If I chipped it up on top, there’s a chance it’ll come back to the front part of the green,” Woods said, adding that’s what happened when he tried it during the pro-am on Wednesday.

He switched to his putter and ripped up the slope to the left of the pin, leaving himself about 10 feet away for a chance at par. There is one issue.

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Beginning Of A Bad Finish

“The hill caught it more than I expected,” he said.

It lost speed and turned right, down the edge of the bunker and into the sand. He drove to 5 feet and made a quick putt with enough break to start it outside the cup.

That was the beginning of a bad finish. On the eighth, his tee shot found a bunker, and he caught it heavily. He then hit his third shot over the green and put from the first cut of turf to tap-in range for a bogey.

He came up short on his final hole, No. 9, and plugged into the bunker. With a front pin, all he could do was blast out through the green, and his par putt caught the lip. When he signed his card, he was 1-over 143 and outside the top 65.

“I made two bad calls on the wind on 6 and 9 that cost me two shots,” Woods explained.

Because of injuries to his right leg sustained in a car accident a year later, the tournament host is playing for the first time since 2020.

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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone

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Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.

In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.

As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.

Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.

“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”

Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.

Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.

“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.

The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.

The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

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Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.

On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.

“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.

However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.

White claimed that his publicist emailed Dobrev a forged invitation to the event, which was scheduled to take place at the Golden Swan in New York City.

Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”

He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.

Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.

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Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.

According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.

“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.

The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.

SOURCE  | CNN

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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79

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Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," has passed away at 79.

Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.

Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”

Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.

Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.

She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.

In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.

Teri Garr, a comedian

Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”

She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”

Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.

“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.

The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”

Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.

 A gift for spontaneous humor

Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.

She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.

Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.

During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.

Source: AP

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