A few hours after it was announced Tiger Woods would make his first public statement Friday at 11amET since his Thanksgiving night...incident, he was spotted jogging in a widely circulated Getty Images picture. But on closer inspection, the image, and the public statement, is vintage Tiger - and that's not a good thing. (more...)

CNBC can be a tough slog these days: the frantic noise of the past year has settled into a dull roar, and the endless hours of Congressional footage can make the network seem more like C-SPAN. Punctuating the monotony, though, are the colorful segments by Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell. Formerly employed at ESPN to cover the business of sports, Rovell joined CNBC in July of 2006 ("I just went from being the geek at the sports network to the cool guy at the business network," he told Mediaite's Steve Krakauer in a Mediabistro podcast back in May) and has interviewed sports personalities ranging from Roger Federer to David Stern. He is the reporter behind a number of CNBC documentaries and the author of two books, including "First in Thirst: How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon". (more...)