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FOLDED conveniently into the narratives about his “complicated past” was the detail about Kobe Bryant that could have wrecked him.
It was a rape allegation by a 19-year-old employee of a Colorado hotel. It happened in 2003. Some argued that making that life-altering detail a mere footnote to the stories detailing Bryant’s life and unexpected death was the human thing to do on such an awful day.
Others felt it was another example of an icon being given a pass of sorts because he was a successful athlete.
STEVEN ANDREW welcomes a fine introduction to FC United of Manchester, the team set up in opposition to Manchester United
LARRY LAGE writes about the growth of tackle football and how it provides female athletes opportunities in a game previously dominated by men
It’s tiring always being viewed as the ‘wrong sort of woman,’ writes JENNA, a woman who has exited the sex industry