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Longtime radio host Tom Leykis said Thursday he was pledging $50,000 toward the reward for information on the suspects who attacked a San Francisco Giants fan in a Dodger Stadium parking lot last week. Leykis' pledge increases the reward fund to at least $150,000, including $50,000 offered by the Los Angeles City Council and $25,000 by the Dodgers. Bryan Stow, the fan whose skull was fractured in the beating, remains in critical condition at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. In a telephone interview, Leykis called the incident "heartbreaking" and said he was "shocked" that the Dodgers offered $25,000, given that...

The feminists abhor chivalry. They claim that chivalry gives women preferential treatment because they are 'weaker' than the male, and since the sexes are equal they do not need such careful handling. To the feminists, chivalry is just another shackle which must be broken in order for females to gain absolute equality. Interestingly enough, radio talk show host Tom Leykis would agree.

Seattle fans of talk host Tom Leykis are upset because the station that had run him, The Buzz 100.7, changed to country as The Wolf. A different station, KISW, picked up Leykis but will be airing him tape-delayed (THE HORROR!) Leykis, with his hepcat dee jay voice and relationship talk, has had a colorful history including mistaking his wife for a Duraflame log back in his days at Boston's WRKO (threatened to kill her and shoved her into the fireplace at their Back Bay residence, mere blocks from Casa Kerry) to getting beat up himself at a bar in Seattle...

<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- The 19-year-old woman who accused Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant of rape was named Tuesday by a nationally syndicated talk-show host and on the Internet, pushing her into the spotlight despite pleas for privacy from her family.</p>

Radio Talk-Show Host Names Kobe Bryant's Accuser Tue July 22, 2003 09:53 PM ET By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 19-year-old woman who accused Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant of rape was named on Tuesday by a nationally syndicated talk-show host and on the Internet, pushing her into the spotlight despite pleas for privacy from her family. Rape counselors and mental health experts were outraged by the exposure of the young Colorado woman, saying that a victim of sexual assault would be further traumatized by public scrutiny. "That's like being raped again," if her accusations against Bryant...