Hello, everybody.

There's a lot to get to as we've got a few weeks left of 2009, so we begin with, you guessed it...Tiger Woods!

The world's #1 golfer had a bit of a fender bender last weekend outside his Florida home...or so we thought. It turns out that Tiger was secretly on the prowl behind wife Elin Nordegren's back, having an alleged affair with not one, or two, but three women!

One was nightclub owner Rachel Uchitel, according to the "National Enquirer" (she denied that claim); another was San Diego cocktail waitress Jamiee Grubbs who had been "sexting" Woods for the last 2 1/2 years; and there was a third mistress involved, though the details on that weren't available by publish time. We've also learned that Grubbs in 2004 pleaded guilty to misdemeanor grand theft for stealing $400 worth of merchandise at a San Diego Nordstrom store.

As far as the accident was concerned, the Florida Highway Patrol closed the case on the investigation and cited Woods for careless driving; the fine? A measly $164.

Now back to the scandals: Woods on Wednesday released a statement in response, stating "I have let my family down" and expressing regret for "transgressions."

Meanwhile, a slew of his sponsors including the key ones being Nike, Gatorade, and Gillette, are standing by Tiger 100%. But...has the Tiger been tamed?

As we have seen and heard over the last two decades, from Kobe Bryant to Bill Clinton to (most recently) David Letterman all the way back to Jimmy Swaggart, you can shrug it off and move on with your life. And Tiger Woods, with over a billion dollars in his bank account and tons of Grand Slam trophies in his trophy case including four Masters green jackets, will pretend nothing like this ever happened. It ain't going to occur overnight, you know.

On to serious news: Tuesday, President Obama in a primetime address from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York said he's going to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that withdrawal would begin in 18 months. But that story was nothing compared to the Obama's first White House state dinner the previous week (honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh), as there were two uninvited guests to the party we have never heard of.

So who were they? Tariq and Michaele Salahi, a couple from Virginia, part of the cast of an upcoming reality show called "The Real Housewives of D.C.", and are polo players. They were not on the guest list and happened to skirt their way to the dinner with a little outside help, and photographic proof on Michaele's Facebook page shows her with Vice President Joe Biden and other dignitaries.

Can you say "breach of security?" Probably, yes, as the Secret Service has been looking into this themselves and finding out, "How the hell did we let those nobodies in?" Apparently, the Salahis did went through the usual security procedures like the other confirmed guests. This reminds me of yours truly slinking past security at the 2003 Iditarod re-start here in Fairbanks without credentials to talk to the mushers as they were finalizing everything in their race to be the first to Nome; of course, I covered that on the old "Allen Report."

But let's hope in the case of the Salahis, the post-Oscar parties will be on their guard when security will remind them, "Sorry, you're not on the list."

And last but not least...Last time, I said that Verizon came out with the Motorola Droid in a bid to take down Apple's iPhone from AT&T; prior to that, they showed their 3G coverage map in comparison to AT&T's and saying they have more penetration.

Well, it didn't take long for AT&T to fight back against Verizon's claims, and they relied on actor Luke Wilson for help (guess Cliff Robertson was too old to be brought back). One ad featured Luke standing on a huge map showing AT&T's 3G coverage while reading postcards from those areas (it was split into two parts); another had him with a checklist and when he tried to put an "X" on Verizon in the "Name that starts with the letter 'V'", it wouldn't stick.

Apple recently put out two new ads defending the iPhone as well, with the announcer ending each one with "Can your phone -- and your network -- do that?"

To sum things up, kudos to AT&T sticking it to Verizon. I guess it won't be long till Verizon responds with that "Can you hear me now?" guy...only this time he couldn't be heard with his Droid! So long and stay strong!