Sports Illustrated bombshell

si.com | John K.

[jsk10]

I have on good word that SI will be doing an explosive story this week about Phil Mickelson. I don't want to get into rumor mongering so I'll let the story itself come out. But any fans here that would quit being fans if it comes out that he's not America's Golden Boy that his image portends? I've been a fan for a long time, and I don't know how the details will affect his reception.

[socal_parrot]

His obvious A-cup breast implants are a precursor to a sex-change operation?

[Phsstpok]

Is Phil going to be signing autographs with John Daly at Hooters this week?

I'll go.

By the way, who are Phil Mickelson and John Daly?

[DaGman]

I was at the same craps table as "Mr Squeaky-Clean Mormom boy" in Las Vegas in 1997 and I never knew two people, he and his wife, could put out so many stacks of blacks on so many places on a crap table and keep such good track of it. They made several thousand while my wife was on a streak rolling the dice. To this day she yells for him to miss a putt because they never even acknowledged her great roll.

[dwilli]

About two months late...this story has been rumored
for the last two months. It ain't like he's got any
inside skinny.

[Kryptonite]

Thnx.

[The Headhunter]

I've heard this too. I remember a rumor floating around that he dropped out of the Las Vegas tourney in '04 after making the Friday cut because he was up all night playing blackjack and was down several million for the night.

[Rudder]

I don't want to get into rumor mongering so I'll let the story itself come out.

Come back when you have something to say.

[mayday_malone]

I heard this same rumor over from an "insider" very recently. I have no idea if the rumors/allegations are true, but I do know that at least two major publications are investigating the following:

- Mickelson has a 2 year-old child out of wedlock with a black woman, possibly in Ohio.

- Callaway assumed some portion of Mickelson's sizable gambling debts to assorted Vegas casinos (this has been rumored for awhile).


I don't know why these publications are sitting on the story, but I believe they haven't published yet because they are still confirming/researching - not because of scruples or some ethical dilemma.

[Carling]

The rumor on this is that Ford played hardball with SI and said they would pull advertising if SI ran the story.

If you subscribe to SI, the recent flimsiness of the issues tells me that every sponsor is needed.