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...about a lot of families: Bryant's and his accuser's and those of the kids who have seen the star as Mr. Nice Guy. A caller to the New York City sports radio station WFAN sounded heartbroken when he said he now had to take away his son's favorite item of sports apparel: his Kobe Bryant No. 8 jersey...
...Bryant proved last week that he can be a charismatic testifier. But he may have a tougher audience in Eagle County, a Colorado district in which blacks total only 0.3% of the population. Even here, though, Bryant's benign image may trump his color. "Kobe the superstar is in some ways raceless," says Kenneth Shropshire, author of In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. "He could be like Michael Jordan, someone nonurban white folks think of as a superstar, and not primarily a black...
...Bryant has two constituencies to worry about: 12 jurors and the tens of millions of his fans whose approval pushes Nike, Coca-Cola and McDonald's to pay big bucks for his face. Every athlete's endorsement agreement has a public disrepute clause that lets the sponsor duck out if, as one contract reads, "any party or its principal(s) is indicted on a felony criminal charge of moral turpitude...
...press conference, Bryant conceded, "I have a lot at stake" but stressed, "It has nothing to do with the game of basketball ... nothing to do with endorsements ... This is about our family...
Everybody has heroes. Everybody, some time or other, nurses a glamorous career dream. Bryant's accuser did. Last November she went to Texas and tried out (unsuccessfully) for American Idol. Her audition piece was a Rebecca Lynn Howard country ballad, Forgive. How does it go? "Well you might as well've ripped the life/Right out of me, right here tonight,/When through the fallen tears you said,/'Can you ever just forgive?'" Those lyrics might be haunting Bryant--now not so clean, not so cool--and the two women who have shared his favors and his notoriety. --Reported...