Tiger Woods will make his highly anticipated return to competitive golf at the Masters. The world’s No. 1-ranked player, who has never missed the year’s first major as a professional, announced in a statement Tuesday that Augusta National Golf Club will be the site of his comeback.

“The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta,” Woods said in a statement.

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David Beckham says he is determined to make a “swift and full recovery” from the ruptured Achilles tendon that has left his dream of playing in a record fourth World Cup finals for England in tatters.

The 34-year-old midfielder flew to Finland this morning to visit Dr Sakari Orava, professor of orthopaedics and traumatology at the Mehilainen Clinic in Turku, who is expected to perform surgery on the player’s left tendon this afternoon.

Dr Orava confirmed it would take a minimum of four months for Beckham to fully recover from the injury, prompting some to predict the setback could even curtail his illustrious 18-year playing career.

Yet Beckham has already set his sights on a return to the game. “I am on my way to Finland to see a specialist and have a scan on the injury,” Beckham said in a statement released on his website earlier today.

“I am upset but want to thank everyone for their messages of support. I hope to make a swift and full recovery.”

The injury occurred when Beckham pulled up under no pressure from an opposing player in the final minutes of AC Milan’s 1-0 victory over Chievo at San Siro last night. The former England captain hopped from the pitch in obvious pain and collapsed on the sidelines. He was treated for about five minutes on the touchline before eventually being carried from the arena face down on a stretcher in tears, mouthing “it’s broken, it’s broken” to those on the home bench, while members of Milan’s backroom staff tried to comfort him.

David Beckham arrives to airport in Turku, Finland - images via daylife

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I was at my pops crib this weekend in the garage looking for my turntable and receiver when I turned over a box and my Motorola Timeport from the early 2000s fell out. For all the cats that think that the iphone and the blackberry are the greatest thing since sliced bread, let me introduce you to this.

Throwing this thing on the charge deck set off a bbm session between me and my boys I used to promote with. This thing was clutch. Gen1 didn’t have a phone but it had everything else, and if you think that showing a girl the latest iphone app is a set opener, you have no idea what beaming a hot ringtone did; If you didn’t have one of these things back then, you were not the man, period! … I loved this thing, I loved it so much I might try and get it activated tomorrow!!!

Hit the jump for a throwback video that m-a-d-e this two way, ***spoiler alert*** its a Jay Z video – I Just Want to Love You

Just in time for Christmas 3.0 … I spotted this book over at bbcicecream blog and wanted to look into it a little further and apparently this is a real book…from amazon:

Intelligence historian Melton and retired CIA officer Wallace (coauthors of Spycraft) reunite for this unremarkable reproduction of a long-lost cold war–era relic. In 1953, the fledgling CIA hired professional magician John Mulholland to adapt his techniques of stealth and misdirection to the craft of espionage. Mulholland produced two illustrated manuals…

the full editorial review after the jump

Intelligence historian Melton and retired CIA officer Wallace (coauthors of Spycraft) reunite for this unremarkable reproduction of a long-lost cold war–era relic. In 1953, the fledgling CIA hired professional magician John Mulholland to adapt his techniques of stealth and misdirection to the craft of espionage. Mulholland produced two illustrated manuals featuring a range of tricks from placing pills into drinks to stealing documents and avoiding detection. The classified manuals were believed to have been destroyed in 1973, but the authors discovered a copy in 2007 among recently declassified CIA archives. The manuals are reproduced along with enhanced illustrations and an extended introduction by Melton and Wallace. Despite the authors’ best efforts to promote their discovery of Mulholland’s work as a rare piece of historical evidence of the CIA’s legacy of black arts, the manuals, with their earnest, how-to descriptions of surreptitiously spiking drinks, palming documents and signaling colleagues with a feather in a hat band seem more quaintly anachronistic than revealing or sinister.

I might have to pick this one up

The noms came out today for the Golden Globes… After reading Emily Blunt’s name for “The Young Victoria” in film, Timberlake sings, “Somebody’s gonna have a good night tonight!” at John Krasinski who’s engaged to the actress.

Happy holidays!