What’s next for Matt Williams and Tiger Woods?: David A. Arnott and Ben Valentine talk about the Washington Nationals hiring an admitted PED user to be the team’s manager, and about the world’s top golfer’s split with EA Sports.
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Matt Wiliams admitted in 2007 that he’d used PEDs to recover from an injury, saying that he quit because he didn’t like how the drugs made him feel.
For the most part, Williams isn’t remembered as a PED user. The manager who hired him as a coach, Kirk Gibson, appears to have completely overlooked that part of Williams’s history.
David’s earlier post about Tiger Woods’ split from Electronic Arts also included a plea for someone to create a fictional. sports video game universe.
Yahoo posted a column speculating how EA might focus its golf video game from here on out.
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