Reply With Quote
I love that the non-dynasty dynasty (1 National le) of Pete Carroll will crumble. How will ESPN anchors be able to survive without constantly having his nuts in their mouthes?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A San Diego sports marketer claims in a new book that he gave former Southern California running back Reggie Bush nearly $300,000 in cash while Bush was still in college.
Based largely on interviews with Lloyd Lake, who tried to secure Bush as a client for the marketing company he attempted to launch, Tarnished Heisman claims the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner was provided with hotel stays, cash for shopping sprees and money to buy and customize a car.
The book's authors, Don Yaeger and Jim Henry, acknowledge that Lake "has been compensated in return for his full cooperation," according to a story posted on the Los Angeles Times' Web site Thursday. Lake's family members also were quoted extensively.
The book hints that USC coaches may have known about some of the arrangements, but it does not provide evidence that any school official was aware of alleged improper gifts.
Bush has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
The NCAA and Pac-10 are investigating whether Bush and his parents took improper benefits during 2004 and 2005, when Bush was still playing college football.
If the NCAA determines that USC violated rules, the football program could have to forfeit victories from those seasons -- when the Trojans won a national championship and lost in the BCS le game against Texas -- and face additional penalties.
If Bush is found retroactively ineligible, he could lose his Heisman.
The book also contains transcripts of secretly recorded conversations that Lake claimed to have had separately with Bush and his stepfather, LaMar Griffin.
Lake and his former business partner Michael Michaels entered into an agreement with Bush and his stepfather to launch a marketing company with Bush as its main client.
The deal fell apart when Bush signed with established sports marketer Mike Ornstein.
Michaels reached an out-of-court settlement with Bush and has declined to comment. Lake is suing Bush to recoup $291,600 in cash and gifts that Bush and his parents allegedly accepted during Bush's sop re and junior seasons.
I love that the non-dynasty dynasty (1 National le) of Pete Carroll will crumble. How will ESPN anchors be able to survive without constantly having his nuts in their mouthes?
The way this is all moving, Carroll will have been dead 5 years before anything is actually done.
Interesting how ESPN is ignoring this.
They're just pissed that Yahoo Sports broke it. Plus they love USC's .
I can't remember where I read it, but the author said that he has copies of credit card receipts, canceled checks, etc., but that they aren't included in the book. He is supposedly going to post them on a website online at some point.
wheres that idiot who claims he loves usc and aggy
He's off masturbating in front of his Reggie McNeal poster.
no response from jgw? telling...
JGW is not posting in the College section until next season I think.
http://thebiglead.com/?p=4145
[UPDATE: A reader writes in: “David Cornwell is Bush’s attorney. And unbelievably, Cornwell is a legal consultant for ESPN!]
thats half right.
...i find all this amusing, though. i don't care, nothing will happen to SC cause its a clean program. you haters can say whatever you want but i highly doubt anything happens. Bush might have made a mistake, but nothing changes history....even if the NCAA tries to.
Three in a row!
you must like looking foolish...
another dumb ass post...
Man, Bush is a . Take that much money and enter an agreement then back out on your word? What a ghetto piece of .
if thats what happened, then i'd agree. don't forget he put undo scrutiny and pressure on the university as well...not good Reggie.
btw, there are 2 sides to every story...i'd like to hear Reggie's. i just can't believe he would be that dumb or selfish. maybe the marketer did something we don't know about or he is making it up...? i don't know. either way, Bush made a mistake by even associating himself with this guy.
What gets me is that he supposedly settled a lawsuit with one of these marketers, and that leads me to think that there is some validity to him taking money from them. If this stuff is true I hope that the games aren't forefited because a lot of innocent people put a lot of work into getting those victories, but I do hope his Heisman is stripped.
yeah, maybe.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
