
REGGIE BUSH: CHEATINGEST ATHLETE IN COLLEGE HISTORY
Reggie Bush may have cheated more and taken more payoffs than any athlete in NCAA history. Unfortunately for Bush, one man actually has financial documentation of all his college misdeeds. Lloyd Lake reportedly has video tapes, cashed checks, receipts and credit card records involving all of Bush’s shenanigans. Worse, for Bush (and his alma mater USC), Lake has been highly motivated to rat the current New Orleans Saints running back out. Bush has spent the past five years screwing Lake over and not paying him back the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owed him.
While attending USC, Bush took over $300,000 in cash, free rent and travel for his parents, and other goodies from Lake and his fellow wannabe, scumbag agent, Michael Michaels. Lake and Michaels formed “New Era Sports & Entertainment.” After fronting the Bush family all of that money, the ingrate running back stiffed New Era and signed with somebody else when it came time to pick an NFL agent. Bush never even paid back the six figures of bribe money he and his parents took from Lake. Both Michaels and Lake sued Bush.
Yahoo! Sports is now reporting that Bush has finally reached a settlement with Lloyd Lake in his civil suit. The settlement comes just days before Bush was to be deposed by Lake’s lawyers. Bush would have been forced to testify under oath about all of the illegal, extra benefits he took while playing at USC. Bush reached a similar settlement with Michael Michaels earlier. Lake says Bush also took payoffs and kickbacks from Mike Ornstein, the legitimate agent he eventually signed with upon entering the NFL Draft.
The Bush/Lake settlement may be too little, too late and have no effect on the NCAA investigation of USC. In February, the NCAA held the longest hearing in its history investigating the USC football and basketball programs. The L.A. Times reported that the NCAA “wheeled out” seven boxes of documents during that USC hearing. An NCAA decision is expected soon. At stakeis USC’s 2004 National Championship, which may be stripped retroactively, and Bush’s 2005 Heisman Trophy.