Tiger Woods Faces the Nation

By A. Scott Walton
Say what you will about Tiger Woods, but the man who's bigger than the very sport he plays can't be labeled a coward.
A coward is someone who has the audacity to demand a stroke-by-stroke account of all of another man's infidelities.
A coward is someone who hides behind the false shield of a media credential to take indiscriminate shots (verbal and visual) of a man and his family in the obvious throes of anguish and disappointment.
A coward calls another man "arrogant" for stepping forward to apologize, but not confess the details of his sins to a public that cannot and will not do anything meaningful toward the redemption he seeks.
A coward passes judgement; cloaked in the devilish security blanket over his own hidden and misgiven thoughts and deeds.
A coward faults a man who declares that the privacy and security of his wife and children should be protected at all costs, and that any decent human being should want the same for their own household.
A coward wouldn't attempt in a lifetime what Tiger Woods achieved at the podium in 13 minutes today.
Every so-called "hero" has a flaw.
Tiger Woods just showed the courage to expose his much more than any of us has the right to know about.
FOR MORE: Watch the world's No. 1 golfer make his first public statement since things spiraled out of control here.
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