"For all of the Tiger idolaters out there, it must have been like finding out that ice cream sundaes give you gonorrhea."

Contrary to what some think, Dan Jenkins wrote this piece weeks ago (those of us who received it virally can attest). Yet his thoughts on Tiger Woods remain timely.

Life as Tiger has known it is over. His reputation is ruined, possibly forever. His name that once meant mastery over competitive golf now invokes cringes, giggles and all the Internet jokes you want to pass along.

Sure, he can come back and even win again, if he man's up, but if he does he will only be a hero to the "you-da-man" and "get-in-the-hole" crowd. And I can't imagine him coming back as a "humbled man." That wouldn't be the owner of a yacht insultingly named Privacy, the guy the press has still slobbered over for these past 12 years.