Kobe Central

People Magazine is reporting that just a few days before publicly admitting to committing adultery with a woman who accused him of rape, Kobe Bryant purchased his wife a $4 million diamond ring. Please note that the purchase came after the alleged assault, but before the public announcement of criminal charges.

Nota bene: this is the sort of story that helps the Bryant trial break far and wide outside the sports world.

Also in LA, syndicated radio talk show host Tom Leykis defended his decision to name the alleged victim in the Bryant case on the air. To reiterate, Off Wing Opinion will neither identify the victim, nor link to any information source that does.

Though I missed it the first time around, I have to admit some surprise in reading the following passage in the New York Times from Selena Roberts:

If Bryant had been savvier, he would have discovered what several N.B.A. veterans have said privately over the years: a professional stripper has no strings attached; a relative stranger is the greater danger. In other words, pay up front, not later.

Talk Left has consolidated its coverage here. Find the links to Dan Lewis' coverage here.

Over at Sportsfilter, the crowd is pelting the low life who established the Free Kobe Web site with plenty of invective. Why don't you join in? And at Sports Frog, Baltimaher posits that the Bryant saga came along at just the right time for ESPN's struggling, Outside The Lines Nightly.

UPDATE: The Denver Post looks at the chances the defense in the case might have for a venue change. Meanwhile, the family of a woman wrongly identified in photos posted on the Internet as the woman Bryant allegedly assaulted, has hired an attorney to stop the spread of the pictures.

Good luck.

Eric 11:05 AM

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