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Basketball Superstar Kobe Bryant wants his family back. Friends say the basketball giant doesn’t want his marriage to end. After ten long years of being together, Kobe’s wife Vanessa filed for divorce. She had enough of his cheating. She never signed a prenup, and now she stands to get paid. If the divorce goes through, she will get half his fortune. What can Kobe do to save his marriage? He has cheated on his wife for years. Can she give him the forgiveness card?
SIDEBAR – Kobe try some hand jive, stop having side line kids (2), while you are married.
Vanessa Strikes Back! After ten long years of being together and constant cheating, Vanessa Bryant has filed for divorce from Lakers Superstar Kobe Bryant. Vanessa, 29, is going to get paid. Kobe did not have a prenup (*what an idiot)! The Bryants have two kids. Kobe has never been faithful to his wife. There was the famous 2003 Colorado rape case, and there have been reports of two children by other women. Vanessa has been unhappy for a while, and she struck at the right time by waiting it out. By going the ten-year distance, she stands to gain half his fortune, plus homes, spousal and child support. Kobe may be a great basketball player, but his arrogance is going to cost him. He went against the advice of his parents, lawyers and people who had his best interest at heart. He is going to lose a lot of money. He is worth $150 million, and it looks like he’ll lose half. Meanwhile, don’t be surprised if he starts dating a Kardashian. They would love to get their hands on the money that’s left.
Trymaine Lee of HuffPost Blackvoices is reporting that between 1971 and 1991, Donald Fitzpatrick, a long-time Red Sox clubhouse manager, systematically molested and abused nearly a dozen African-American boys in their hometown of Winter Haven, Florida, where the baseball team held their Spring training. Lee highlights the story of Leeronnie Ogletree, who was molested by Fitzpatrick at age 10. Ogletree vividly recounts the sexual acts in which he was made to participate by Fitzpatrick to a number of publications.
Lee writes:
It took decades for the truth to come out about Fitzpatrick, who is white, and his criminal desire for young black boys. In 2003 the Boston Red Sox settled a $3.15 million federal lawsuit brought against them by Ogletree and seven other men from Winter Haven who said Fitzpatrick repeatedly molested them as boys.
Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who handled Ogletree’s case against Fitzpatrick and the Boston Red Sox, said the similarities between the Penn State and Red Sox scandals are startlingly similar. There were cover-ups, denials and the enabling of pedophiles to use the power of their institutions to prey on the weak, in the Red Sox case, “poor black boys,” he said. The kinds of youth often considered society’s “throwaways.”
Kudos to Lee for reminding the public that this sort of crime happens more often than we would like to imagine. Some men prey on boys of all sports. Have we already forgotten that boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard was molested during his Olympic days by a trainer? The silence about molestation in sports is deafening because in sports culture, everything is privileged — the school’s reputation, the obsession with maintaining a winning coaching staff –except the safety of the child. These children were vulnerable for a number of reasons and yet those who knew, chose to look the other way. That is probably one of the most sickening and pitiful aspects of these sports scandals.
If you have even a passing interest in the legal world, David Boies is a name you should already know. He’s possibly the most famous litigator alive. So when he walked in with the union on Monday, you knew the news was bad enough to jeopardize the season.
The union has abandoned its right to negotiate on behalf of the players in order to sue the NBA in antitrust court for massive damages within the next 48 hours, according to its revamped legal team. The players in attendance said the decision was unanimous — that the league had backed them into a corner with ultimatum after ultimatum, even after the players gave back the equivalent of nearly $3 billion over a 10-year deal by lowering their locked-in share of the league’s revenue.
“Collective bargaining has totally failed the players,” said Jeffrey Kessler, the union’s outside counsel and commissioner David Stern’s designated villain.
“We put all our proposals out there, and they were rejected,” union vice president Maurice Evans told SI.com. “There was nothing else to evaluate.”
The move will shift the process from the bargaining room to the court system, jeopardizing the season and infuriating Stern, who said on ESPN minutes after the union’s announcement that players had “been badly misled.” Stern dismissed the union’s move as a negotiating ploy that had been in the works since at least February 2010, when Kessler, in Stern’s telling, informed the commissioner the union would go this route if talks broke down. “We were very, very close,” Stern said, “and the players decided to blow it up.”
So Stern has his public relations victory — the players did it! — and a league on the verge of suffering the most disastrous labor relations outcome (apologies to the NHL) in major professional sports history. Let’s be clear about one thing: Nobody knows what happens now. The season is not lost, despite the doomsday rhetoric, some of which agents on Monday characterized as part of Stern’s plot to scare the players into taking the deal on the table. The union and the league could settle their lawsuit in days, and that settlement would include the guts of the next collective bargaining agreement.
And the court process itself is uncertain, despite the common refrain that the NFL players failed in going down this exact path. Labor experts say the appellate ruling that reinstated the NFL’s lockout, after a lower court halted it, is a tricky opinion that did not provide the complete victory the NFL sought. Legal precedent for this kind of case is thin; the NBA believes it gave itself an advantage by filing a pre-emptive lawsuit over the summer declaring any future dissolution of the union would be a sham, but nothing is certain now.
Now that he has retired from the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal is ready to tell all. In his book, Shaq Uncut: My Story, O’Neal talks about his relationship with Kobe Bryant, their intense dislike for one another and how O’Neal threatened to kill him. Shaq also talks about his days with the Miami Heat and his conflicts with Pat Riley. Shaq’s other project is his All Star Comedy Jam tour. It stops at the Keswick Theatre Friday, November 11th. Deray Davis, Gary Owen, Capone, Michael Blackson and Corey Holcomb are on the bill
What is going on with Pro Football Player Terrell Owens? The former Philadelphia Eagle, Dallas Cowboy and current Cincinnati Bengal had to be hospitalized last week because of a possible prescription drug overdose. The free agent NFL receiver is 37, and his NFL career looks like it’s over. Owens’ career is not doing well and he has made bad choices with his money. Did he try to commit suicide? Back in 2006, he was hospitalized and claimed it was a bad reaction to painkillers. Close friends said he tried to commit suicide by taking 35 vicodin pills.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Kim Zolciak is engaged to be married to NFL Player Kroy Biermann. They had a baby last month, and now they are getting married and getting their own reality show. The new season of Real Housewives Of Atlanta debuts November 6th on the Bravo network.
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Royce Reed is out as part of The Basketball Wives. Reed was one of the stars of the Miami version, and is also the babymomma to Basketball Star Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic. She was the pot stirrer. Reed was always getting into it with the other ladies, who only saw her as a dancer. Reed felt like it was time to go, and she has already started a career as an author.
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Magic Johnson is the new owner of Soul Train. The former Lakers star says Soul Train is a great brand, and he has big plans for it. Johnson has been riding a big wave of success in his business ventures. Soul Train debuted in syndication 40 years ago this month with Host and Creator Don Cornelius. Over its more than 35-years on TV, Soul Train showcased Jazz, Blues, Motown, The Sound Of Philly, Chicago Soul, Disco, Hip Hop, New Jack Swing and all the stars that came with trends. A few years ago, Cornelius sold the rights to Soul Train to an independent group. Besides DVD releases, there’s been the Soul Train Awards on BET in recent years. Now, Johnson has acquired the rights to the ground breaking music show, and he plans to bring it back to television.
Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan is trying his hand at marriage for a second time. Jordan is engaged to longtime girlfriend Yvette Prieto. Back in 2007, Jordan divorced his wife Juanita, and she got $300 million.
Is Shaquille O’Neal married? Did the former NBA Superstar marry a reality star without signing a prenup? According to published reports, Shaq, who is living with Nikki Alexander (a.k.a. Hoopz) married the former reality star without a prenup…. or lawyers…. or accountants! Is he crazy? O’Neal and Hoopz have been dating for a while. They got engaged, and she moved into his home. Hoopz was one of the stars of the VH1 reality show Flavor Of Love, and she won season one and went off with Flavor Flav. Well that didn’t last. After a series of soft porn jobs, she landed on her feet and hit the jackpot with O’Neal. O’Neal has just released a new book, Shaq Uncut: My Story, talking about his life and career. Shaq is in love. Apparently, he doesn’t care about her past or his wallet. Look for Hoopz to get pregnant soon.