Kobe Bryant is headed to London on the US Olympic basketball team but his only goal isn’t to win another gold medal. Bryant is a huge Harry Potter fan and has expressed interest in meeting the book’s writer, JK Rowling.

This is not the first time Kobe has expressed he is a fan of the Harry Potter series. In 2010, he did an interview for GQ and said that his experience in 2008 at the Olympics was ’like Harry Potter going to Hogwarts’.

Let’s hope someone can make Kobe’s wish come true.

You didn’t think I wouldn’t give some love to the gentlemen from the Western Division, did you?

San Antonio Spurs – Tony Parker

Clearly, I’ve decided to overlook that whole “I cheated on Eva Longoria with my teammate’s wife” thing.

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Poor AJ Burnett.  First, he’s traded from the NY Yankees, a team that has seen the playoffs 16 times in the last 17 years, to the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Then, during his second week at Spring Training, he breaks his face.  Bunting.

Ok, so it was more AJ fractured his right orbital bone when he bunted a ball into his own face fouled a ball while attempting to bunt.  Seriously, however you phrase it, it sounds painful.  Burnett is to have surgery on the fracture tomorrow.

Yeah, OUCH.  It’s never good when EVERYONE on a baseball field yells “oooh!” simultaneously.

I’m really just hoping that AJ will now sport the Kobe-mask and make opposing pitchers scared that he might eat them.

TMZ is reporting (with photographic evidence) that Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa was spotted cheering on the Laker’s at Tuesday night’s game. She was also seen sucking face with Mr. Bryant in the tunnel after the game.

The Lakers won…maybe Kobe was so excited he hadn’t gotten Lincapacitated by the Knicks again that his hormones just took over.

Vanessa, seriously, in the words of my favorite sassy gay friend, “what, what, what are you doing?!” You already managed to get all three Bryant houses in your property settlement.

I know your divorce won’t be finalized for a few more months, but still. You know more than anyone about your husband’s licentious ways! Be a strong woman, choose one of your three living rooms to curl up in and watch the game from home.

Just please don’t let it happen again, okay? I’m sure we all had our fill of teary press conference apologies and strictly-for-appearances hand holding the last time around.

Because I know this is what EVERYONE wants to read on Christmas Eve…or if you don’t celebrate that particular holiday, on a random Saturday afternoon… a Kobe divorce rumor!

The latest in the Kobe divorce is that Kobe Bryant is trying to save the marriage “for the sake of the kids”.

Excuse me while I laugh hysterically…

Ok.  I’m better.  Seriously, dude?  I’m guess you going around sleeping with everyone woman in the city of Los Angeles was “for the sake of the kids” too?  Give me a break.

Cough, cough, no prenup, cough, cough.

With the start of the NBA season and Christmas only a few days away, I thought we could use a NBA Christmas rap video, complete with LeBron and Kobe puppets.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfcafAekkLs

Yeah, everything is funnier when puppets are involved.

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Poor Lakers fans. Missing out on Chris Paul and losing Lamar Odom was bad enough.  Now comes the news that their superstar shooting guard Kobe Bryant is going through some personal issues.

It seems his wife Vanessa has finally had enough of his cheating ways and has filed for divorce. Well, it’s about damn time, girlfriend! What the hell took you so long?

According to TMZ, Vanessa filed the papers earlier today and cited the always popular “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.

Sources connected with the couple tell TMZ … Vanessa — who stuck by Kobe after he was charged with sexually assaulting a Colorado woman in 2003 — decided to end the marriage because she believes Kobe has been unfaithful … again.

The soon to be former Mrs. Bryant is asking for joint custody of their two daughters, Natalia and Giana, and also according to TMZ – and this is pretty damn funny – there was no prenup, so Vanessa is entitled to half of Kobe’s massive fortune.

Oh Kobe. I think I just bruised my forehead from face palming so hard.

» Continue reading “Vanessa Bryant Files For Divorce And The Only One Shocked is Kobe”

The choir boy

The least surprising thing about this story is that Kobe freaked out in church. The most surprising is that Kobe actually GOES to church:

San Diego police are investigating an allegation that Lakers star Kobe Bryant was involved in altercation with a man at local church, according to a news report by KCBS-TV Channel 2.

The incident occurred Sunday at St. Therese of Carmel Church in Carmel Valley, where Bryant allegedly grabbed a cell phone from the man who sustained an injury to his wrist, according to the report.

Bryant reportedly thought the man was taking photos of him and his wife but saw no photos after inspecting the phone.

Kobe apparently grabbed the man’s wrist when he yanked the cell phone away from him. And, because Kobe is a multi-gazillionaire, the man in question now has a “hurt wrist” and is considering legal action.

Of course he is.

Perhaps next week’s sermon will be about the sin of pride.