When the subject turned to Tiger Woods, the eyelids narrowed into a defiant squint. The jaw muscles tightened up to form something between a smile and a scowl. The head shook back and forth. With that, Kobe Bryant walked away. No way he was going there. Fair enough. Yet Woods' road to redemption after a string of tawdry affairs will undoubtedly follow many of the guideposts that Bryant so expertly navigated on the way to atoning for his infamous trip to a Colorado spa seven years ago. “In taking his golf game and personal morality to a higher level, Tiger Woods' rehabilitation role model will have to be Kobe Bryant,” said Porcher L. Taylor III, who teaches business ethics at the University of Richmond. He recently chaired a symposium on what the Woods scandal might mean to future endorsement deals. Bryant's career was rocked by allegations that he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old hotel worker in the summer of 2003.
