Kobe Bryant

Is Kobe Bryant’s ‘Dear Basketball’ a Reimagining of Shakespeare’s Final Soliloquy?

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kobe and Prospero, from “The Tempest,” say goodbye to their powers in remarkably similar terms. Coincidence?

London Olympics may be last hurrah for U.S. basketball Dream Team

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

NBA Star Kobe Bryant Opens an Account on Weibo

August 15, 2013Sports

US basketball team preps for world championship

August 14, 2013Sports

Takeouts: Obama roasts Washington at White House correspondents dinner, NBA playoffs, listeners respond

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Kobe! Kobe! Lakers Beat the Magic for the NBA Title

August 14, 2013Sports

The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Orlando Magic to take their 15th NBA championship title. The Takeaway Sports Blogger Ibrahim Abdul-Matin says Kobe has escaped Shaq’s shadow and predicts whether the Magic will be contenders again next year.

L.A. Lakers avoid elimination at home, head to Boston for Game 6

August 14, 2013Sports

?There can only be one,? reads the tagline of the NBA’s 2008 playoff marketing campaign, splitting the faces of top players to emphasize that no one gets a participation award. Yet, the Los Angeles Lakers Game 5, 103-98 victory over the Boston Celtics, featured a different kind of split ? the split personality of Kobe Bryant.”
-Maggie Haskins

U.S. vs. China in Olympic basketball

August 14, 2013Sports

The U.S. men’s basketball opener vs. China on Sunday will be one of the most-watched Olympic events, and the players on both teams are under pressure to do well during the Games, as The World’s Matthew Bell reports.