Kobe’s Blog

Even the SeaHawks became converts, originally uploaded by Kobe2005.

After the seahawks failed in their first attempt for a touchdown, the Bears showed them how it’s done. Within minutes, noisy seahawks fans knew they were at the wrong game!

Downtown Palm Springs, originally uploaded by Kobe2005.

Hi Kobe2005,

I am writing to let you know that one of your photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the second edition of our Schmap Palm Springs Guide, to be published mid-October 2006.

Clicking this link will take you to a page where you can:
i) See which of your photos has been short-listed.
ii) Submit or withdraw your photo from our final selection phase.
iii) Learn how we credit photos in our Schmap Guides.
iv) Download the first edition of our Schmap Palm Springs Guide.

While we offer no payment for publication, many photographers are pleased to submit their photos, as Schmap Guides are FREE to download and give their work recognition and wide exposure. Photos are published at a maximum width of 150 pixels, are clearly attributed, and link to high-resolution originals at Flickr.

Our submission deadline is Thursday, October 5. If you happen to be reading this message after this date, please still click on the link above (our Schmap destination guides are updated frequently - photos submitted after this deadline will be considered for later releases).

Best regards,

Ali Moss,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides

The Bride & Groom, originally uploaded by Kobe2005.

My first trip to Connecticut was to attend the wedding of my long time friend Ama Pokuaa and her husband Thomas Brew on Sept 03, 2006.

It was beautiful — a great match!

To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. — Isaac Newton

You can strip him off the award. It won’t erase the fact that it was awarded to him.
You can paint a negative picture of him. it won’t erase the fact that he’s the best we’ve ever had in a long time.
You can talk about how stupid what he did was. It won’t erase the fact that he was provoked.

Zenedine Zidane is human. It’s sad he didn’t end his career the way he wanted. He was not given the chance to do that… thanks to Materazzi.
To insult someone’s family because he offers to give you his shirt after a game… is pathetic.

If FIFA lets Materazzi go scott free, it will be a big shame to the game. Such acts need to be punished and punished well. If Materazzi is not punished, it will show that FIFA’s noise on anti-racism is a blatant joke.

Sepp, this is not the time to try to rewrite history. Zidane was awarded best player of the tournament. Stripping him off the award won’t change the fact. Please spend your time punishing those who are still playing the game and making it dirty. Don’t waste your breathe on a retired Hero. No matter what you do, he will always be a hero!

So Zidane headbutted Materazzi. So what? It’s about time verbal abuse got punished too. I’d do the same if I were in his shoes. For his entire career he’s had to keep quiet and deal with people doing and talking crap and he’s supposed to be a bigger man because he’s Zidane?

Zidane’s not an animal. He won’t just headbutt someone without being provoked. And the footage shows Materazzi was talking to him. FIFA needs to investigate what Materazzi said and slap a ban on him. If not, next thing you know racist players will be saying crap to our soccer stars.

If I had 10 minutes left in my playing career, the last thing I would want to do is sit down and let some jerk talk crap to me. What’s FIFA going to do? Slap a 4 match ban on him? Great! If you’re smart, you realize he’s sending you a message. It’s time to take officiating in games serious. You cannot put off the fire in a burning home without stopping the gase leakage. Materazzi provoked him. And he got headbutted.

The only thing I feel sorry for is the fact that he left his team in that state. But I have no sympathy for Materazzi or the Azzuri. They won the cup with tricks as usual. Now they should go home to deal with their match fixing tricks!

Still ZIDANE!!!