RIP Kobe Bryant

This is going to draw attention away from DC.

 

Someone must have stopped him before he tweeted that Bryant was "one of the good ones."

 

Classing the place up. Again.

Bad enough that other threads devolve into nothing but gambling. The least you could do is leave this one alone.

 

Yes. And he is still alive.

 

Weird flight path -- circled for a while for some unknown reason over Glendale, took a strange route towards Thousand Oaks and then a sharp left into the mountain.

N72EX - Sikorsky S-76B [760379] - Flightradar24

 

Jerry West is being interviewed on the LA CBS affiliate and can barely keep it together. He said he feels like he lost a son.

 

"Mamba Academy" LOL

 

It's tough. Do we judge people by the extent of their genius or whether they were good humans?

 

LOL!~~!!~

 

I tend to dislike rapists. I don’t find that complicated.

 

Another valuable reminder why most of us don't helicopter to kids' travel games.

 

Not surprising that Mr. Black and White doesn't see any "complicated" gray in a case involving a schizophrenic and where Kobe's charges were dismissed and he issued perhaps the most honest apology we've seen in cases like this...and has not been implicated in any sort of #metoo claim since.

First, I want to apologize directly to the young woman involved in this incident. I want to apologize to her for my behavior that night and for the consequences she has suffered in the past year. Although this year has been incredibly difficult for me personally, I can only imagine the pain she has had to endure. I also want to apologize to her parents and family members, and to my family and friends and supporters, and to the citizens of Eagle, Colorado.

I also want to make it clear that I do not question the motives of this young woman. No money has been paid to this woman. She has agreed that this statement will not be used against me in the civil case. Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.

I issue this statement today fully aware that while one part of this case ends today, another remains. I understand that the civil case against me will go forward. That part of this case will be decided by and between the parties directly involved in the incident and will no longer be a financial or emotional drain on the citizens of the state of Colorado.