TIGER, GIRLFRIEND IN NDA SPAT
Tiger Woods’ former livein girlfriend has asked a Florida judge to release her from a nondisclosure agreement she signed with the golf star in an escalating court dispute that started when he barred her from his home last fall.
Woods’ lawyers have claimed in court that Erica Herman, whom he dated for six years, is not allowed to sue him because of the NDA, which requires them to settle all disputes in confidential arbitration.
Attorneys for Herman filed a complaint seeking declaratory judgment on Monday in Martin County, Florida, circuit court, according to online court records.
The couple had been living together in the area, according to the complaint. Martin County is located directly north of Palm Beach County.
Woods and Herman have not publicly announced the end of their relationship, which began in 2017. She had been seen regularly with him at major championships, such as the 2019 Masters he won for his 15th major and during his Presidents Cup captaincy in Australia later that year.
But she was not at his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas the first week in December, or at the Genesis Invitational he hosted at Riviera in Pacific Palisades three weeks ago.
According to the complaint, a trust controlled by Woods is attempting to silence Herman with a nondisclosure agreement that she signed while involved in a personal and professional relationship with Woods. The complaint argues that the NDA should be nullified under a federal law that prohibits an NDA from being enforced when sexual assault or sexual harassment is involved.
Herman previously worked at Woods’ Jupiter restaurant.
The complaint doesn’t provide details about what information Herman might want to disclose or make specific allegations against Woods.
Sports and courts
A pair of basketball players from Brown allege in a federal lawsuit that the Ivy League’s policy of not offering athletic scholarships amounts to a price-fixing agreement that denies athletes proper financial aid and payment for their services.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Connecticut by attorneys representing Grace Kirk, a member of Brown’s women’s team, and Tamenang Choh, who played for the men’s team from 2017 through 2022. They are seeking class-action status to represent all current and former athletes at the eight Ivy League schools dating back to those recruited since March 2019.
The policy, which dates back to 1954, makes the Ivy League the only Division I athletic conference that prohibits member schools from offering any athletic scholarships
Two men who were in a Phoenix hotel lobby the night that Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin was accused of misconduct with a female employee said they didn’t see him do anything wrong and that his brief
interaction with the woman appeared friendly. Phil Watkins of Australia and Bryn Davis of Philadelphia appeared at a news conference by video link with Irvin and his attorney, who have filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against a “Jane Doe” and Marriott International Inc. Watkins said he saw “nothing at all” that could be considered inappropriate, and that Irvin and the woman shook hands and laughed.
Motorsports
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes “didn’t listen” when he raised concerns about the development of this season’s Formula One car. The seven-time world champion finished fifth at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday and said on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Chequered Flag podcast that last year “there were things I told them” regarding issues with the car.
“I’ve driven so many cars in my life. I know what a car needs. I know what a car doesn’t need. I think it’s really about accountability,” he said. “It’s about owning up and saying, ‘Yeah, you know what? We didn’t listen to you. It’s not where it needs to be and we’ve got to work.’ ”
The 38-year-old Hamilton finished nearly 51 seconds behind race winner Max Verstappen in Bahrain.
• Meyer Shank Racing has fired the technical director for its sports car team after IMSA ruled the team manipulated tire pressure data while winning the seasonopening Rolex 24 at Daytona. MSR was allowed to keep the win, its Rolex watches and the trophy, but IMSA levied six substantial penalties against the team that included the indefinite suspension of “team engineer” Ryan McCarthy.
Locally
The third-seeded and No. 16 Cal State San Marcos women’s basketball team (23-5) is set to compete in its third consecutive NCAA Division II West Regional and will face sixth-seeded Central Washington (21-8) in the regional quarterfinals at noon Friday in the Torodome on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson.
• San Diego State women’s tennis earned a comeback win, beating visiting Furman. The Aztecs dropped the doubles point before singles players
Tamara Arnold, Dariya Detkovskaya and Alicia Melosch all won their matches.
• The UC San Diego women’s tennis team snapped a three-game slide with a resounding 5-2 victory over visiting Utah State, taking the doubles point and four singles matches. UC San Diego (6-7) earned the doubles point thanks to wins at No. 2
Rachel Wagner and sophomore Katelyn Vu and No. 3 from sophomores Naomi Nguyen and Kelly Leung.
• San Diego State’s divers concluded the NCAA Zone E Championships with the 1meter springboard. Senior
Ximena Lechuga Gonzalez
was the lone Aztec diver to qualify for the final round, finishing 12th overall.
• San Diego State’s
Chikaya Sato was named the Mountain West men’s tennis Player of the Week.