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...DISMISSED. Sexual assault charge against KOBE BRYANT, 26, National Basketball Association superstar; after his accuser ceased to cooperate with prosecutors; in Eagle, Colorado. The Los Angeles Lakers guard was charged with raping a 19-year-old desk clerk during a hotel stay last year. The case against him was weakened by the woman's admission that she willingly flirted with and kissed Bryant, and an unproven defense allegation that she had sex with someone else after leaving his room. Bryant released a statement in which he apologized to the woman, saying: "Although I truly believe this encounter between...
Betting big on one athlete is risky, so companies have learned to diversify their superstar portfolios "like any good financial planner," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. "Nobody wants to be left hanging with the next Dan and Dave," he says of Reebok's infamous $25 million ad campaign for Barcelona in 1992, which played up the rivalry between decathletes Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson. After six months of hype, Reebok yanked the ads within minutes of O'Brien's failing to qualify for the Olympic team...
...notes ring loudest in The King and I, a tart tell-all due in October from Herbert Breslin, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI'S former publicist. In this tale of "a beautiful, simple, lovely guy who turned into a very determined, aggressive and somewhat unhappy superstar," Breslin claims Pavarotti lip-synchs when he's tired, often forgets lyrics and calls pals "stupido." The round-bellied tenor requires a limo to travel just a block, says Breslin, and "has to have gained and lost more than 5,000 pounds" during their 36year partnership. In a 2003 interview in the book, Pavarotti says, "Herbert...
...worry, Sheena. They're almost gone. Age is chasing some champions off the Olympic stage, and an ugly drug scandal is hunting down others. Superstar Marion Jones, 28, didn't qualify in the two events, the 100-m and the 200m dashes, in which she took gold in Sydney. She's merely a long jumper. So while suggestions of drug use--which she vehemently denies--cloud her legacy, America's success on the track is no longer riding on her shoulders. She's just another oldhead...
HAWKING PAYS OFF A superstar physicist revamps his theory of black holes...