A CONSULTANT TO NIKE

Consultant to Nike

Consultant to Nike

For a couple of days last week, as more women continued to claim affairs with Tiger Woods and Woods eventually announced Friday that he was taking an indefinite depart from golf, Jesper Parnevik became my sportsman of the year. I had never paid much vigilance to Parnevik before. To me, he was just that strange dude from Sweden who was dressed in goofy hats and blaring apparel when he played.

But Parnevik's direct enthusiasm to be the only PGA Tour golfer to decry Woods' thundering herd of mistresses left the Swede -- who presented ...