How many people can paralyze the world's consciousness on a holiday weekend, make us stop everything until we're sure all is well? Tiger Woods is one of the precious few. Friday afternoon, while we were shopping and working off the mashed potatoes and nursing hangovers and watching better football than the day before, there was the biggest athlete on the planet, reportedly in serious condition in an Orlando-area hospital after he was injured in a one-car accident at 2:25 a.m. Turns out he is OK, beyond some facial lacerations that might require more makeup for short-term TV commercials. He was treated at Health Central Hospital for "minor'' injuries and released in good condition, according to a Woods spokesman, but try claiming this was a minor situation at the moment of impact. That's when Woods was sprawled in the street outside his $2.4-million mansion -- fading in and out of consciousness, according to a local police chief who spoke to the Associated Press -- after his wife, Elin, had heard him crash his 2009 Cadillac sport-utility vehicle into a fire hydrant and then into a tree on a neighbor's property.




