Tiger Woods has endorsed Buick since 1999, but did he really seem like a Buick driver?

On Thursday, GM announced that Woods would no longer be the face of Buick, but instead will pitch other GM products, such as OnStar.

"Tiger's a great asset," Mark LaNeve, GM’s vice president of North American sales told reporters. "We can use him in lots of ways. Why shouldn't we use him in ways other than Buick?"

MORE SHAQ FITNESS

Meanwhile Heat center Shaquille O’Neal, who takes on childhood obesity in his new reality TV show, Shaq's Big Challenge, that begins airing on ABC on Tuesday, is expanding his roster of 24 Hour Fitness Shaq Sport Clubs. The developers of Miramar Town Center, a 54-acre, $235 million mixed use project of housing, retail, restaurants and office space, have signed a 15-year lease to operate a Shaq Sport Club.

The 35,000-square foot club, expected to be completed early next year, will feature Shaq-sized amenities, similar to those in other 24 Hour Fitness clubs that bear his name, including in Coconut Grove and Pembroke Pines.

MORE BOBBLED PROMOTIONS

The Chicago Cubs traded catcher Michael Barrett to the San Diego Padres, but the team reportedly plans to keep the Barrett item giveaways on the schedule: a jersey on Tuesday night and a bobblehead on July 1.

There’s plenty of precedent for botched giveaways. The Marlins traded Matt Mantei on Matt Mantei pin night and gave out bobblehead dolls of Ryan Dempster in his Marlins uniform when he was on the disabled list for the visiting Cincinnati Reds.