Though Tiger Woods might have suggested otherwise, American golf is still a sport for good ‘ole boys. Or so its talking heads have themselves convinced.

In January, Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman all but revealed this little secret, when her comments about the unstoppable Tiger Woods – and how his competitors’ only hope of beating him was to “lynch [Woods] in a back alley” – blew the lid off that not-so-secret pot.

And then, over the weekend, NBC Sports’s lead golf analyst Johnny Miller added to the fury with one ill-advised comment about U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate.

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SOMETHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED IN GOLF It probably should have been mentioned here on Stereohyped yesterday evening that Tiger Woods won the US Open after a sudden death with opponent Rocco Mediate. Apparently, many golf fans found yesterday's events exhilarating. “I think this is probably the best [win] ever,” Woods told the New York Times. “All things considered, I don’t know how I ended up in this position, to be honest with you. It was a long week. There was a lot of doubt, a lot of questions going into the week. And here we are 91 holes later.”

The Sports Illustrated list of the 50 highest-earning athletes in the United States are golfers (you know Tiger Woods is No. 1 with $128 mill earned last year), basketball players, baseball players, NASCAR drivers, football players, and one boxer. It should come as no surprise that there isn't a single female on the list.

After Tiger Woods, the top ten is rounded out by golfer Phil Mickelson at No. 2 ($62.3 mill), LeBron James at No. 3 ($40.5 mill), Floyd Mayweather at No. 4 ($40.2 million), Kobe Bryant at No. 5 ($35.5 mill), Shaq at No. 6 ($35 mill), A-Rod at No. 7 ($35 mill), Kevin Garnett at No. 8 ($31 mill), Peyton Manning at No. 9 ($30.5 mill), and Derek Jeter at No. 10 ($30 mill).

Teachers, hide this list from kids who you're trying to convince to choose academics over sports.

With just $27 million earned between June 2006 and June 2007, LeBron James was the last in Forbes' list of the ten top-earning black stars. Before you go feeling all bad for LeBron James for coming in last on a list of insanely rich people, consider this: he was just 22 in June 2007. Next on the list is Beyonce, who also earned $27 million, but is probably in the spot above James due to alphabetical order. Or maybe because she's prettier? Check the full list after the jump.

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A lot of people came to Tiger Woods' defense recently for his use of "Cablinasian" to define his racial makeup. I make fun of it, but I honestly don't care what Tiger Woods calls himself. Others said that calling yourself Cablinasian is one thing, but deliberately downplaying or outright ignoring the part of you that's black is another. Now that his camp has released a statement that totally blows off Kelly Tilghman's controversial quip about Tiger Woods getting lynched in a back alley, that latter group's argument just got stronger.

Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent, issued a statement declaring the uproar regarding lynching and the first black golfer to win a major title was not a major concern.

"This story is a non-issue," Steinberg said. "Tiger and Kelly are friends and Tiger has a great deal of respect for Kelly. Regardless of the choice of words used we know unequivocally that there was no ill-intent in her comments.

"This story is a non-issue in our eyes. Case closed."

Maybe you have to be more in touch with your "bl" side to understand that lynching jokes aren't really appropriate. [AFB]

Oopsie! Damn those faulty internal censors.

Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has apologized after saying during Friday's telecast of the PGA Tour's opening event that today's young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley."

I can think of $millions$ of reasons why it's good to be Will Smith, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods*, and Denzel Washington. Low on the list is that they have all graced the cover of Men's Vogue in 2007. While I'm sure it's sort of "whatever" to them, it's kind of a big deal in the fashion mag industry, where covers featuring black celebs are few and far between. Take Men's Vogue's female predecessor, Vogue, for instance: Jennifer Hudson's March cover was only the third in the magazine's history to feature a black female celebrity. And there was not a single black model in the October issue's fashion spread. Incidentally, the same went for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour and Cosmopolitan.

I suppose it's not entirely accurate to say that black people aren't "en Vogue." Just those unfashionable black women. [Portfolio]

*Cablinasians need love, too.

Tiger Woods just signed a $100 million — chump change, for him — contract to develop his own sports drink, "Gatorade Tiger." I don't really associate golf with drinks like Gatorade. Then again, I don't really know the first thing about golf.

And this is all beside the point, anyway. With this new sports drink contract, Tiger Woods will have made approximately $1 billion off of endorsements over his relatively short career. Is it too late to get him on that "I Get Money" remix?

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• Tiger Woods has done a lot to expand his bank account but little to bring more blacks to the game. [BA]

• Apparently, Colonial Williamsburg is short on black history interpreters. Who does all the cooking and tobacco farming, then? [VG]

• Black people: bringing style to political protests for nearly a century. [PI]

• Master P is starting to seem genuine about his crusade for positive music, but I can't forgive him for refusing to take off his sneakers on Dancing With The Stars. Or Black Supaman.

• And here come the white supremacists…[WDBJ7]

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Awwww! It's Tiger Woods' half Cablinasian, half white daughter. [MG]

To God be the glory! Rev. Run's winning a BMI award. [AHH]

Former track superstar Marion Jones is out of excuses, endorsement deals, and money. [AJC]

The only thing this little love triange between Trina, Karrine Steffans, and Weezy has taught me is that all three of them have terrible taste in mates. [YBF]

$1.8 million is a small price to pay for shooting someone, don't you think, Flavor Flav? [VH1

It's no surprise that Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods are the opening 1-2 punch on the Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 List, the magazine's annual list of the most powerful celebrities in Hollywood. They made $260 million and $100 million this year, respectively. At number 9, Jay-Z is the last person of color in the top 10, having made a whopping $83 million last year. Clearly, Forbes didn't have time to take into account 50 Cent's Vitamin Water windfall. Check out the top 10 after the jump.

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