Fox's 'Teen Choice Male Athlete'

Yahoo! News ^ | Sun Aug 3, 2003 | unknown

[joesnuffy]

Sun Aug 3, 7:36 AM ET

Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant kisses the hand of his wife Vanessa as they arrive as guests for the 2003 Teen Choice Awards, in Los Angeles August 2, 2003. Bryant won the Choice Male Athlete award at the awards show. Bryant has been charged for alleged sexual assault by a Colorado woman and is due in court in Eagle, Colorado August 6 to face charges in the case. The awards show will be telecast on the Fox television network August 6. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

[lunatic12]

He's going to jail.

[MaryFromMichigan]

When was the poll for the award conducted?
Before or after the rape charge?

[LaraCroft]

You ought to hear the Laker's fans out here in LA. It is pathetic. I fear for the poor girls safety if her real name and address gets out.

These people are sick and have lowered my opinion of sports fans to an all time bottom of the barrell.

[It's me]

Well, I hope they don't telecast the awards ceremony.

[mosby]

Agreed. The players are egotistical, semi-literate, jerks; the fans are infantile, no-life, losers. (I'm talking about pro sports in general, not the Lakers in particular). I very rarely watch pro sports at all anymore. I simply can't seperate the above from the action on the floor/field/rink.

[hole_n_one]

Could that brush you're painting with get any broader?

[billhilly]

The oxymoron called professional sports has done more to coarsen america than most anything else. Sports used to have a meaning. Hard play, good behavior, humility in victory, graciousness in defeat. Golf is about all that we have left that fits that description.

[hole_n_one]

...the fans are infantile, no-life, losers

....and you're an idiot.

[BigTime]

So why in the world would Kobe Bryant attend this kind of function with a rape charge hanging over his head?

You could make the argument that he is innocent and believes there is no reason he can't attend celebrity functions like this when he did nothing wrong.

So if that's the case, why further exploit yourself and your wife you recently victimized with publically admitted adultery?

Why do you suppose people who are on trial wear their best clothes and don't mug for the camera? Because they are indicating their respect for the system.

Whatever Kobe Bryant does between now and a verdict presents a case to the public. Is his best case made by dragging his wife into public and standing on stage in a ridiculous T-shirt?

It simply is not dignified and is providing grist for negative publicity.

He's either innocent (of rape) and INCREDIBLY stupid or guilty and INCREDIBLY audacious.

[mosby]

Go back to drooling over hitting a little white ball into a little round cup. Loser.

[shiva]

Today Kobe will walk
He's young
He will get arrogant
He has a thing for teens
His wife is a mother now
He has a long way to go
Tomorrow He will stumble again
I'll wait
Be here

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" He's either innocent (of rape) and INCREDIBLY stupid or guilty and INCREDIBLY audacious."

Agree with all your points. To attend an award show for TEENS, when you have been charged with the sexual assault of a TEEN, is a PR blunder.What's next? Making an appearance at a fund raiser for rape victims?

[Charles Henrickson]

"Teen Choice Award." How ironic can you get?

[FITZ]

Is his best case made by dragging his wife into public and standing on stage in a ridiculous T-shirt?

The wife is beginning to remind me more and more of a Hillary Clinton. She seems very in it for the money, the ring he had to buy her and the rest. She doesn't care about the adultery, as long as she gets the money.

[LaraCroft]

Can you re read what I typed and practice word comprehension?

I'm not being general... these are actual people who say things on the radio, hundreds of them. Of course, they may be the same people who riot too, but as you can see, I've never had a favorable opinion of slavish sports fans. There are too many important real things to put that much time and energy into.

Can you imagine if parents got involved in their kids schooling in the same passionate manner as they do about the superbowl?