[2006alum]

Tiger issued a statement today stating that alcohol was not the cause of his impairment, but rather a reaction to various prescription medications. No way of knowing if this is true at this point, but it is plausible given that he is surely on all sorts of pain medication for his chronic back ailments.

Update: the police report released this morning stated that his blood alcohol level was 0.0 according to the roadside breathalyzer test.

This is exemplary of why I am beginning to loathe our 24/7 news culture. We all pre-judge before the facts have even emerged. I feel bad that the whole world jumped to conclusions before knowing the details and read him the riot act, when all along it turns out he's recovering from back surgery and had a bad reaction to pain meds. It doesn't excuse getting behind the wheel when you know you've taken potentially driving-impairing medications, but it definitely changes the inflection of the severity of it.

[2006alum]

Tiger issued a statement today stating that alcohol was not the cause of his impairment, but rather a reaction to various prescription medications. No way of knowing if this is true at this point, but it is plausible given that he is surely on all sorts of pain medication for his chronic back ailments.

Update: the police report released this morning stated that his blood alcohol level was 0.0 according to the roadside breathalyzer test.

This is exemplary of why I am beginning to loathe our 24/7 news culture. We all pre-judge before the facts have even emerged. I feel bad that the whole world jumped to conclusions before knowing the details and read him the riot act, when all along it turns out he's recovering from back surgery and had a bad reaction to pain meds. It doesn't excuse getting behind the wheel when you know you've taken potentially driving-impairing medications, but it definitely changes the inflection of the severity of it.