Professional sports figures are not the clean, upright types people take them to be. Just look at Tiger Woods. He betrayed his lovely wife by engaging in extramarital affairs with several different women.
A) Weak analogy.
B) No fallacy.
C) Hasty generalization.
D) Composition.
E) Accident.

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The statement is making a hasty generalization by using the example of Tiger Woods to make a sweeping generalization about all professional sports figures. This is a logical fallacy as it is not fair to generalize about an entire group based on the actions of one individual.

Professional Sports Figures Are Not the Clean, Upright Types People