Today's "Marketplace" found a good sidebar peg to today's Tiger Woods media show. They drove out to the Studio City golf course for a story on Canh Oxelson, who used to get a lot of work as a look-alike for Tiger Woods. Enough that Oxelson paid for a graduate degree at Harvard. Now, though, he has been going through his own personal recession since his paycheck's image hit the wall. "I'm still getting some gigs, but not nearly as much as I was getting before," Oxelson says. "I mean, I had several contracts on the table, and companies just decided, 'We can't really be associated with Tiger or anybody who even looks Tiger.' So yeah, there was a lot of money left on the table, actually."
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