One Saw It Coming

Charlie Pierce writes for The Boston Globe, Esquire and is author of four books; the latest, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free, was published in June 2009.

Charlie isn't shy about being on radio. He's been a panelist on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me since the news quiz show's launch in 1998. But on the subject of Tiger Woods, he'd prefer his prescient writing speak for itself.

But Christine Brennan of USA Today will accept questions.

How could one of the world’s greatest sportsmen fall from grace as precipitously as Tiger Woods has?

With reported earnings of over $100 million a year, mostly from endorsements, and with a carefully crafted image as a squeaky clean family man, the recent explosion of accusations about Tiger’s sexual infidelities calls into question the media’s role in idol making and how the story has played out.

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.

Golfing great Jack Nicklaus predicts Tiger's future.