the sports world. l.a. lakers forward kobe bryant says this season will be his last one in the nba. bryant announced his upcoming retirement from basketball over the weekend. the 37-year-old drafted out of high school in 1996 helped the lakest win five nba championships. he was also named the league s mvp in 2008. let s get more from the writer of usa today s sports site for the win. chris chase, good morning. so why did bryant decide to retire now? this was a decision two years in the making. in 2013 he ruptured his achilles tendon the end of the season. right then and there he could have retired. i think a lot of people said he should have retired. he was free to do what he wanted, of course, but he never got that same explosiveness back. when you are a player who comes out of high school at age 17 and are playing into your 30s, you play olympics and you play deep into the playoffs, you put a lot of wear on that body and when you have the achilles injury you lose a step.
shell fish are apparently best in months that have r s. that starts in september. standing by to tell us what s going on this the world. hey. curt schilling won t appear on the air for a month. he was pulled after retweeting a post that compared muslims and nazi jer plans. he said it was a quote bad decision but then sent a message to a sports site about that. espn says he ll be off the air the rest of the regular season and american wildcard games. a bus driver brutally beaten on camera gets suspended for fighting back. quite a story. happened in pompano beach.
one of my additional ones ends with this in 2014. hi, this is god. i can t come to the phone right now. please leave a message after the beep. but our winner, it s not clear yet whoever is really wrong with this, we ll start with the site most links trace back to, the croatian times. by now you ve heard about the croatian soccer player from the city in slovania. he collapsed to the turf and the referee gave him a yellow card penalty card for faking an injury, except the 32-year-old was not faking it. he had had a heart attack and died as the referee penalized him. we went searching for the name of this idiot referee and that s when it turned out another croatian sports site called net reports the whole thing is a fake. sadly, he is dead, but the net site reports the reason nobody has the name of the ref is that the incident did not happen. upon his collapse, away from play, the referees and everybody else on the field rushed to his aid and tried to save him. so we ll fix specific bla
who get in trouble, people like ben roethlisberger who has had his legal difficulties recently. if you re in love, out of love, or if you re in some sort of hot water, the tabloid press is taking a greater interest in you if you are a sports figure. part of that is driven by technology. the tabloid access is no longer just through the newspaper or magazine you might buy at a checkout counter at a supermarket, you get this stuff on the web. that means in particular, male sports fans have greater access to these pictures and stories than they have in the past. these websites wouldn t be popular if there wasn t an audience for it. tmz, starting a sports site. that s got to make some of these guys nervous. are we talking just about the big names? the people like a tiger or a ben roethlisberger or utility infielders, backup quarterbacks will they be getting the treatment as well. the ironic thing is that success or stardom on the field is not the thing that determines whether or not you