The prevailing trend in news reporting these days is what I call the hail-or-fail syndrome. Reporters either predict the upswing or downswing of sporting icons depending supon what status they have attained in their sport.
So, either Roger Federer is the new heir to the Greatest of All-Time throne, or he is just a pretender whose best days are behind him. Should the downward moving person's fortunes make a turnaround for the better, as Federer's recently did, the very same naysayers will then turn around and be astonished that people wrote him/her off.
And on and on it goes...
The latest to receive such coverage is Tiger Woods. Now that three majors have gone by without a win in 2009, Tiger's days are surely numbered. Right? Gene Wojciechowski (ESPN.com) tries to provide some much-needed perspective.
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