2009's Tiger Woods Saga Voted AP's Top Sports Story Of 2010

Kind of strange that Tiger was sports story of the 2010 when the lowly Saints win a Super Bowl, but here's the spin:

Tiger Woods' humbling return to the public eye, from his televised confession to a winless season on the golf course, was voted the sports story of the year by members of The Associated Press.

The fallout from Woods' admission of infidelity edged a very different sort of story: The New Orleans Saints winning their first Super Bowl championship, giving an emotional boost to their hurricane-ravaged city.

It was late 2009 when Woods' pristine image unraveled after he crashed his SUV into a tree outside his home, unleashing salacious revelations of extramarital affairs. The story was a late addition to last year's voting and wound up fifth.

But the twists and turns weren't over for Woods. Many more developments were still to unfold in 2010.

Meanwhile the folks at Radaronline seem confident that Tiger will be playing in Dubai from February 7-13 next year, which means he'll miss his son's birthday.

In April, Tiger revealed during a press conference about what he missed out on while in rehab after his secret cheating life was exposed. "Because of the time frame of it, I missed my son's first birthday and that hurts. That hurts a lot and I vowed I'd never miss another one after that. I can't go back to where I was," he said.