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Tiger Woods: The US Open, Daughter Sam and Father's Day

sweatpantsmom — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:45:00 GMT

UPDATE: Tiger Woods Wins His Third U.S. Open Title

Whether or not Tiger Woods is on his way to his third U.S. Open title on Sunday one thing is for sure: he'll be savoring his first Father's Day as a dad to daughter Sam Alexis. Sam was born last year on June 18, the day after Father's Day.

Woods credits his daughter with helping him to recover from arthroscopic surgery on his knee that had him out of the game for two months.

“There’s no way I could have gotten through this without Sam being there,” Woods said. “Spending that much time off and away from training and trying to get better, Sam was absolutely incredible, and I had so much fun doing that. It took my mind away from the fact that I had a surgery done, and just watching her grow, walking, running now, it’s been just the greatest thing in the world.”

Father's Day will also be bittersweet for Woods, whose own father Earl passed away in 2006. But the elder Woods lives on in Sam, by virtue of her name. “My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born,” Tiger said in an interview last year. “He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, ‘Why don’t you ever call me Tiger?’ He says, ‘Well, you look more like a Sam.’ ”

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Did Kobe Bryant Get Some Sideline Action With Vanessa Curry?

sweatpantsmom — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:15:00 GMT

Hey Kobe - keep your eye on the ball! No, not that one...Kobe Bryant may be leading the Lakers towards the NBA playoffs, but his personal life is anything but smooth. First his wife Vanessa verbally attacks a journalist, and now those rumors are back that he had an affair with Laker Girl Vanessa Curry.

The story is that Kobe was having an affair with Curry and that Laker management forced her to leave the Laker Girl squad after concerns that it was proving to be too much of a distraction. Kobe denied the story and threatened to sue the site that first ran the story, but they're apparently refusing to back down.

I wouldn't be so much afraid of any badass lawyers as I would be of Kobe's wife Vanessa, who sounds batshit crazy and could probably scratch out both your eyeballs on the first try. In front of her kids.

Just kidding, Vanessa! Put that knife down!

Vanessa Curry Mask: Celtics Fan Tries To Distract Lakers' Kobe Bryant

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Vanessa Bryant: When Laker Wives Attack! Bloggers!

sweatpantsmom — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:55:00 GMT

Hey, us bloggers have feelings, too, you know. Well, not really, but this one still hits close to home. Kobe Bryant's wife verbally attacked blogger Laura Lane over an article Lane wrote for ESPN The Magazine. On her personal blog, ridethefastlane.com, Lane recounts being chewed out by Vanessa in front of her young daughters after a Lakers game on Friday night.:

Last night, I got cussed out by Vanessa Bryant. Seriously. At the Lakers game. In front of her kids. In front of the Lakers locker room. It was awesome. She is mad about an article I wrote where I mentioned her. That means one of two things - she either reads the ESPN blog or she has herself on Google alerts. Both are fantastic.

So as I’m walking out of the Lakers locker room after some post-game interviews with the players, I pass Vanessa, who is sitting outside the locker room as usual with her two girls.

“Laura!” she screams (yes, she apparently knows my name). “F*ck you! You f*cking bitch!”

“Excuse me?” I say, completely baffled as I look around me to see if there is someone else named Laura. No, there’s not.

Her daughters – ages 5 and 2 – are sitting next to her on the bench looking at their mom as she screams.

“F*ck you! How dare you write about me and my daughters and their schedule! You didn’t say you were writing an article! F*ck you! You f*cking bitch. You have no journalism ethics! F*ck you! You bitch -

I just stare at her. I’ve heard many stories about her from reporters, but this was unbelievable. Two of my friends from the LA Times told me how she cussed out one of them last season, because he said hi to her daughter. “Join the club, this means you’ve arrived,” said one reporter when word spread of my run-in with Vanessa. “She’s insane,” said another. “Everyone knows it.”

Here's what Lane wrote that pissed Vanessa off:

"Vanessa, who is usually prim and proper in all black, has decided to have fun tonight. … She's wearing a white tube dress, a purple tutu, black leggings, high-heeled short boots and a rhinestone-encrusted white leather jacket with the number 8 on the back, Kobe's old number. … Bryant's kids have recently started playing soccer in addition to gymnastics, ballet and hip-hop. 'I'm like a total soccer mom,' Vanessa says."

I can't imagine why this would get Vanessa's panties in a twist, unless as the other journalists said, she's insane. Either that or she was understandably embarrassed that the entire world now knows she actually owns a white tube dress.

Vanessa Curry Mask: Celtics Fan Tries To Distract Lakers' Kobe Bryant

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