Tiger Woods just signed a $100 million — chump change, for him — contract to develop his own sports drink, “Gatorade Tiger.” I don’t really associate golf with drinks like Gatorade. Then again, I don’t really know the first thing about golf.
And this is all beside the point, anyway. With this new sports drink contract, Tiger Woods will have made approximately $1 billion off of endorsements over his relatively short career. Is it too late to get him on that “I Get Money” remix?
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• Tiger Woods has done a lot to expand his bank account but little to bring more blacks to the game. [BA]
• Apparently, Colonial Williamsburg is short on black history interpreters. Who does all the cooking and tobacco farming, then? [VG]
• Black people: bringing style to political protests for nearly a century. [PI]
• Master P is starting to seem genuine about his crusade for positive music, but I can’t forgive him for refusing to take off his sneakers on Dancing With The Stars. Or Black Supaman.
• And here come the white supremacists…[WDBJ7]
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- Awwww! It’s Tiger Woods’ half Cablinasian, half white daughter. [MG]
- To God be the glory! Rev. Run’s winning a BMI award. [AHH]
- Former track superstar Marion Jones is out of excuses, endorsement deals, and money. [AJC]
- The only thing this little love triange between Trina, Karrine Steffans, and Weezy has taught me is that all three of them have terrible taste in mates. [YBF]
- $1.8 million is a small price to pay for shooting someone, don’t you think, Flavor Flav? [
It’s no surprise that Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods are the opening 1-2 punch on the Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 List, the magazine’s annual list of the most powerful celebrities in Hollywood. They made $260 million and $100 million this year, respectively. At number 9, Jay-Z is the last person of color in the top 10, having made a whopping $83 million last year. Clearly, Forbes didn’t have time to take into account 50 Cent’s Vitamin Water windfall. Check out the top 10 after the jump.
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- Tiger Woods is still the only black, white, Native American, and Asian Man on the PGA Tour. And there aren’t any African Americans, either. []
- Something tells me Alan Keyes wouldn’t say this about Barack Obama. [VDARE]
- Mike Jones’s manager said that police unfairly roughed him up because of his job, not because he’s black. [Houston]
- Some elite colleges and universities are working to diversify economically, which I guess is a way to kill two birds with one stone in the diversity battle. [NYT]
- James Ford Seale, ex-Klan member and septuagenarian, goes on trial this week for his alleged involvement in a Civil Rights-era kidnapping. []
- According to the U.S. Census, fewer people identify themselves as multiracial than they used to. If they would just make Cablinasian an option on the survey, we wouldn’t have this problem. [USAT]
- Blacks can run for office, but no one wants us running their campaigns. [Politico]
- Marlyand may lighten its penalties for drug crimes. Does this mean the Barksdale crew will get released from prison? [WP]
- The money put behind this study, a great feat of science that discovered white men dominate Hollywood (that can’t be right!) could have gone toward recruiting more blacks in entertainment, or better yet, AIDS research and helping Darfur. [IHT]
- Fifty years after Central High School was integrated, race wars continue behind the scenes of Little Rock schools. [NYT]
Michael Jordan hung out with Tiger Woods on the golf course in Charlotte yesterday, trying to put on a respectable air after photos of his Cabo San Lucas debauchery (some of which feature Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife…hmmm) hit the Internet. More pics from yesterday’s events and obvious publicity photo ops (I’m talking to you, Jada) after the jump.
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