TMZ Sports to launch after more Tiger Woods brought plenty of readers

  Tiger has moved news and TMZ Sports to launch (AP-Photo)

Tiger Woods has been the leader in many things over his career but his marital problems along with the women who are coming forward talking about their relationship with the sports star has changed the way sports stars are covered.

The news machine now wants more sports dirty laundry.

The celebrity and political media machine TMZ has announced they will be launching a sports version of their brand. Spokespeople at TMZ said that they were “going to launch this service before the Tiger Woods story hit. However that ramping up of TMZ Sports has accelerated with the website looking for top name writers and bloggers.

For years athletes have made the gossip pages since the days of Babe Ruth but for the most part they have not been hounded like actors, actresses or politicians. But now the Woods incident has become the game changer as it seems that sports fans have an appetite for gossip.

Those many "gentleman's clubs" that have set up VIP rooms for top name sports stars and their friends will be open season for anyone with a cell phone video camera.

Now with TMZ realizing that athletes can be fair game there will be more about Tom Brady, Alex Rodriguez and extensive probing into the lives of big name NBA, NHL, NFL, Major League Baseball, tennis and golfers will all be amped up.

There is no doubt that top name sports stars have been part of the tabloid scene before but now with TMZ Sports there will be plenty of room for the “B and even C” list stars to find their way into the headlines.

We give the people what they want and I guess what we have learned is that people want to know all about their favorite sports stars no matter how seemly things might get…