Interesting to note that ESPN isn’t trying to stifle Laurie Fine’s libel suit against the network. The news appears among the headlines on ESPN.com and there’s a lengthy wire story.

She held a press conference this morning. Here’s a passage from the story:

“I’m here today as a wife and a mother who has had to endure the trauma of being smeared in the public as a monster,” Laurie Fine said,  reading quickly from a statement. “My life has been destroyed.”

Federal investigators opened an investigation into Bernie Fine following  the allegations of a third man, 23-year-old Zach Tomaselli of  Lewiston, Maine, who has since said he lied. The local prosecutor  has called Davis and Lang credible but said the alleged crimes  occurred too long ago to pursue.

Laurie Fine, with her two daughters at her side, said her husband called to wish her luck Wednesday. She would not address  whether they are still together.

“Bernie does support this lawsuit, and he’s behind me 100 percent,” Laurie Fine said.

She said the attention has forced her to live in seclusion for the past six months and give up charity work she enjoyed.

“They should apologize and retract these horrible lies reported about me,” she said.

Fine said the network was motivated by the unfolding child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State University involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

“Although these defendants have known me to be a decent and honorable woman, they have maliciously attacked me in order to attack my husband and to boost television ratings in the wake of the Penn State scandal,” she said.

ESPN said the suit has no merit and is standing by its reporting of the story.