Okay, Now They're Reading Too Much Into This!

I've read several accounts of Tiger's ESPN interview with Tom Rindaldi in which writers seized on Woods talking in the past tense about why he married Elin.

Rinaldi: I ask this question respectfully, but of course at a distance from your family life.  When you look at it now, why did you get married?

Woods: Why?  Because I loved her.  I loved Elin with everything I have.  And that's something that makes me feel even worse, that I did this to someone I loved so much.  

In my print edition of the New York Times, Richard Sandomir noted that Woods "spoke of his love for her in the past tense."

That does not appear in the online edition, perhaps because someone pointed out that Tiger was answering a question about why he made the choice to marry his wife in the first place. Wouldn't that require speaking in the past tense to talk about a decision made in the past?