Kobe&#39;s New Role: Villain
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Now he is the Big Victim. For so long, we thought of Shaquille O&#39;Neal as the Big Monster. But it turns out the monster was his former sidekick, Kobe Bryant, according to Phil Jackson&#39;s new book.
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Kobe Bryant has not issued any new public statements about his desire to be traded from the Los Angeles Lakers. He has, however, enlisted several new voices to amplify his request.
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Seldom has an NBA regular-season game drawn the attention of Saturday&#39;s Heat-Lakers matchup. And when it was over, most agreed that Shaq-Kobe I had lived up to expectations.
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Hi, Mr. Curmudgeon here. First night of the season, the Jazz pound the Lakers into Jell-O and what do I do? Call me a party pooper.
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The focus of this action-packed game shifts from that of 007 himself to the corrupt underworld and its criminal masterminds. Players wreak havoc as they make their unrelenting rise through the ranks of villainy.
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Kobe Bryant got everything he wanted. Isn&#39;t that what everyone said last summer? Wasn&#39;t that the premise when the Los Angeles Lakers gave Bryant, their star guard, a $136 million contract and
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The headline-grabbing rivalry between Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Kobe Bryant is likely to dominate the opening weeks of the NBA season that begins on Tuesday.
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LeBron James might soon fulfill the mediaâs hype â if the viewing public can adapt to a new kind of superstar.
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All right, let&#39;s pretend for a moment that you are announcing, producing or directing Saturday&#39;s telecast of the Heat-Lakers game.
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Every morning, it seems, Kobe Bryant wakes up and has to pull an arrow out of his backside. From the east Shaq takesaim every few days, though it&#39;s usually comical and we&#39;ve grown used to
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It is one of sports&#39; greatest tragedies now that the Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Kobe Bryant marriage couldn&#39;t last longer than the eight turbulent years that it did.
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Kobe Bryant is a free man &#151; and the Los Angeles Lakers are his team. Shaquille O'Neal, Derek Fisher, Gary Payton and Karl Malone are gone, leaving Bryant as Showtime's lone superstar.
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Several films will test a new kind of villainy, in which the real victim is the environment and the enemy is all of us.
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This was Kobe Bryant&#39;s opportunity to respond to the verbal bashing he has taken recently from former teammate Shaquille O&#39;Neal, and the Los Angeles media was out in force to record every insult.
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(CBS/AP) Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Kobe Bryant&#39;s sexual assault case get a chance this week to see potential jurors eye-to-eye for the first time.
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Hollywood loves remakes. So the 1952 classic &quot;High Noon&quot; gets updated in 2005. I&#39;m not sure whether Shaquille O&#39;Neal or Kobe Bryant gets Gary Cooper&#39;s part, but one thing is certain: someone&#39;s going to get shot full of holes at the Staples Corral.
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The Memphis Grizzlies took their lumps against the Lakers in Los Angeles when Shaquille O&#39;Neal was around. Now it&#39;s just Kobe Bryant by himself, and the difference was dramatic.