The Gillette Disaster!!!!

Check this out from the New York Times:

This is apparently the cause for Tiger Woods' most recent troubles:

Before appearing in the ad campaign together all three of these athletes were in peak form, acknowledged as the best in the world in their respective sports.

Since the ad was made, here’s what’s happened: Henry came down with a career-damaging case of sciatica and now plays, infrequently, with just flashes of his former brilliance; Woods blew out his knee, came back from surgery on it too quickly and, while winning the U.S. Open, damaged it so badly that he is now out for the year; Federer’s invincibility cloak has gone missing and now he’s having trouble beating Rafa Nadal not just on clay, but also on grass, and he’s lost in straight sets to James Blake on a hard court in the run-up to the U.S. Open.

And at least one of them, Henry, is trying to retroactively end his curse:

Last month, the Web site Momento24 reported that Gillette had modified a print version of the ad to remove the soccer ball Mr. Henry had previously held in his left hand — yes, that would be the same hand he later used to set up France’s infamous winning goal against Ireland.

Thus providing an answer to the trivia question: What do Thierry Henry and Josef Stalin have in common?