Yes, but he admitted he was guilty of adultery. He has no place being a role model for teenagers (or anyone) because of that. Sure, he's a GREAT ball player, but his morals are lacking. I was suprised he even showed up.

Just because someone admits to adultery doesn't mean that all of a sudden they're a horrible person. Plenty of married men cheat, and while I don't condone such behavior, I think it's wrong to single out Kobe as the poster child of adultery. John F. Kennedy and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. both committed adultery. Are we to say that they are no role model?

AND I'd rather roll with someone who admits to doing something wrong and tries to repent than roll with someone who just appears to be good.

Yes, but not all men who cheat are alleged rapists and are seen as a role model by some children and teens.

kddani, you are completely right...it was incredibly inappropriate!

well did anyone see or hear about Mark Cuban's comments on how this may bring new interest to the NBA and bring financial gain for a little while because of curiousity. This incident is gonna change Kobe forever, if he's inncoent his mage is never going to be the same, if he's guilty his career will forever be changed.

You're right
Kennedy was only president of the USA and kids to this day still do book reports on him(even though he didn't do crap for us)
That's such a minimal impact compared to a basketball player

If you'll read my post again, I made no mention of Kennedy.
I was comparing Bryant to any "average" male adulterer.

no but the quote before that you commented on mentioned Kennedy
And I was only using your comment to her quote. . .

This whole situation makes me sick, especially Cuban's comments. Everyone is speculating about what happened and only two people know for sure.

Well, he did break a religious barrier as the first Catholic President.

And, somewhat vividly remembering the Cuban Missle Crisis and the committment to landing an American on the moon during the space race and cold war, I might take issue with the statement that he didn't do crap.

It would have been interesting to see what might have been done had he finished his term and perhaps had a second.

sigh...just incredibly bad timing.

do you know that they speculate the first moon walk was faked
they said that if there's no gravity on the moon
then, the american flag shown on the moon should not be flowing in the breeze

Don't even get me started on the "we didn't land on the moon" controversy. There have been several things written on the internet explaining all the things disbeleivers claim "prove" we didn't land there (the whole flag thing is discussed to-I think it has some thing to do with the fact that space is a vacuum, or they put wires in the flag so it would stand out straight, I can't really remember). Yes Kobe Bryant did something morally wrong, something that thousands of people (men and women) do everyday. I am not saying it's ok, far from it, but I do think he's getting more persecuted for it because he's a sportstar. Yes he is a role model, and should be more aware of the affect of his actions, but parents should be role models, world leaders, teachers, and all of these people have been known to do things that were morally wrong as well. People are using this as a reason for not putting athletes on a pedestal, and I think they should find another reason. You can't say "Oh, well, athletes have groupies and cheat on their wives, so we shouldn't use them as rolemodels." Regular people do that to. The reasons for them not being role models should NOT be based on things that normal people do everyday