Tiger Woods' televised apology was better than that of Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees— but not nearly as convincing as that of Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.
So says Tonya Reiman, author of The Power of Body Language who watched the speech live Friday.

Woods was robotic during his 13-minute address, Reiman says. He came off more sincere than A-Rod in 2009. But not as emotionally honest as Bryant in 2003.

"Tiger did a much better job than A-Rod. A-Rod made some sarcastic jokes like the Tic-Tac remark. You didn't see anything like that with Tiger," she says. "You saw, 'Please leave my family alone. I'm apologetic and trying to get help.' I do think he was sincere."

Still, the tightly controlled Woods didn't come close to matching Bryant's emotional performance when he turned to apologize directly to wife Vanessa with tears streaming down his cheeks...

Body language expert: Better than A-Rod, worse than Kobe





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