Yahoo! Exclusive: Reggie Bush Investigation

by bruinbunz on Jan 25, 2007 4:20 AM PST

Yahoo! Sports is now my new favorite source for sports online (whereas ESPN and LA Times, I don't even bother to glance at anymore - look all over BN to see some reasons why).

Yahoo! has made a formal web page dedicated to the investigation on Bushgate, which until now the rest of the MSM has failed to follow up on or investigate themselves:

While the rest of the national media was having frenzied spasms over Southern Cal's 04-06 pseudo-professional team, Yahoo! Sports was the only large news source that saw past all of $$c's hype and maintained accountability on the program. Now the machinations of the Bushgate scandal are becoming exposed to a point where the MSM and the rest of the nation can no longer look the other way.

Yahoo!'s investigation also mentions that the responsibility of Bushgate may not lie solely on Bush, but also with the university. The permittance of known sports agents to mix and mingle with the athletes on the field and in the locker rooms places liability on the "university" itself for lack of institutional control.

I know that BN has been following this story for awhile, and we have been demanding accountability throughout, while being accused of sounding like embittered, irrational whiners who focus more on hating $uc than Bruins athletics. On the contrary, Southern Cal is not the center of the BN universe, and now that the trojan beans are being spilled all over the place, BN's demands for accountability is proving to not just be baseless vitriol after all. There will be some major fallout at USC in the days to come.

Let there be light.

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It's time for the hammer to drop.

This BS has been going on long enough. The NCAA needs to drop the HAMMER on $uc soon. There is plenty of evidence linking Reginald Bush to NCAA violations and that $C did nothing to prevent it. How do the local papers not report this $h!t!

by bruinelder on Jan 25, 2007 10:55 AM PST reply actions

The last sentence is a question NOT a statement.

My apologies.

by bruinelder on Jan 25, 2007 10:56 AM PST up reply actions

Just curious if anyone has heard about...

a new scandal involving the "academic integrity" at USC? I heard a rumor that a USC player in an as yet unnammed sport was transferring in JC units that were from a bogus class. From what I heard SC's registrar did the right thing and dismissed the classes refusing to give credit, but the player was going to raise a big stink about it even though he would have been shooting himself in the foot to make it public. Anyone hear about this at all? I am pretty sure my info is correct, but SC may be keeping this under wraps. Either way it shows the level of academics SC players are at right now.

Professional players and mediocre education (for the athletes anyway, I know smart people in the good programs there). What a combo!

by isodore on Jan 25, 2007 11:58 AM PST reply actions

Doesn't suprise me.

I'm willing to bet if we looked real hard at this Mayo kids transcripts we'd find some "iffy" classes. That guy took forever to become eligible. It's a shame.

by bruinelder on Jan 25, 2007 12:04 PM PST up reply actions