Tiger Needs to Get The Story Out

It may not be pretty, but it's better than letting all the speculation run wild. Sportswriter Mike Lupica add this:

By Saturday morning, nothing much had changed in the Tiger Woods story, which means that we were still supposed to believe that his wife, Elin Nordegren, somehow turned one of Tiger's Nike SQ drivers into the Jaws of Life.

Woods was driving a Cadillac Escalade out of his own driveway, which is the same as driving a tank. He wasn't going fast enough to deploy his air bags. But we're supposed to believe that in a rescue worthy of the new series, "Trauma," his wife had to bust a back window to pull her husband to safety after he ran over a fire hydrant and into a tree.

Not even the people who reported that can possibly believe a version like that. Neither can the Windermere, Fla. police. And neither can all the people Woods employs to insulate him and protect him and cover his assets, the people who made him unavailable to the police for the second straight day Saturday.

There are those who might suggest it gives Woods and the missus more time to get their stories straight. But then this is a cynical world.

Call me a cynic, but I'm not buying the story that she beat out the back window with a golf club to get him out of his car. I'm guessing she was beating out the back window as he was trying to escape the house and he crashed in the process.

We'll see.

With millions in endorsements on the line Tiger needs to get this whole thing behind him before it spins out of control. He's supposed to be in Southern California next week, but that stop is now up in the air.

UPDATE: Tiger cancels 3rd attempted meeting with cops. They're not going to want to keep that up very long.