It's all Woods, all the time here at Globe Sports. Here's a rundown on recent columns and features from The Globe in the past few days.

Woods will take the podium for what is being called a "news" conference, although it's difficult to imagine what news the four-time Masters winner will offer. Will he make a statement off the top that he's already spoken about his personal life as much as he plans to, during recent brief interviews with ESPN and Golf Channel? He also made a scripted and controlled, 131/2 minute statement on Feb. 19 in front of family and friends. Televised, of course. Read the rest here

Here, class, is Journalism 101- aka Tiger Woods's press event today at Augusta National. You are a reporter with credentials worthy of a badge to cover the Masters. No small thing. You have bosses back home who are counting on you (indeed, paying you) to ask Woods tough questions if the golfer does indeed conduct a traditional news conference. You also know that, if organizers put limitations on your ability to ask pertinent questions and you defy them, you could lose your badge. Permanently.

What to do? At this writing no one knows the precise ground rules. In February, the Golf Writers Association of America boycotted Woods's Manchurian Candidate appearance, because he was not taking questions. Today, Woods is supposed to take questions. Will they be limited only to golf? (2-to-1 odds) Will he go on message-track? (1 to 2) Will he weep like a schoolboy for the humiliation he's endured, turning himself into the victim? (1,000 to 1). And will any of it be remembered should Woods win the tournament? (1 to 5). Read the rest here

It has long been clear that the history of golf, and in some ways the history of professional sport, divides at the arrival of Tiger Woods.

He is, with ever-diminishing debate, the greatest player in the game's history. Woods' genius on the links, first revealed during child prodigy appearances on television talk shows, has caused the rewriting of record books since he began to compete against the best, and should his career complete its arc, he will stand alone at the top.

In the process, Woods made a musty, old, white man's pursuit hip and sexy and more diverse, heralded as the one who might finally tear down the walls of the segregationist country club culture. By simply being the son of an African American father and Thai mother and excelling at his craft, he was cast as an agent of reconciliation, someone to surmount historic barriers long before Barack Obama was known outside the Chicago city limits. Read the rest here