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This being college sports, we shouldn’t be surprised that a historic day pointing toward a brighter future would be interrupted by reverberations from wrongs of the past.
Thursday was college athlete emancipation day, with Fresno State twin women’s basketball players Haley and Hanna Cavinder and an Ohio State offensive lineman cashing in on their fame within hours of the NCAA’s amateurism rules related to name, image and likeness going up in flames. An ad featuring the Cavinder sisters splashed across a big screen in Times Square. The Buckeyes’ “big ugly,” Dawand Jones, promoted scented candles on Twitter.
Mountain Berry gets the job done everytime #GoPuffpartner Gopuff delivers daily essentials in minutes! Get $25 when you sign up. https://t.co/Pwbd1GRbfY pic.twitter.com/kpsC6xFui6
— Dawand Jones (@dvj79) July 1, 2021
Amazing, right?
Then, a little before noon on the West Coast, Reggie Bush stepped back into the spotlight.
“It is my strong belief that I won the Heisman trophy ‘solely’ due to my hard work and dedication on the football field,” Bush wrote in a statement he released on Twitter, “and it is also my firm belief that my records should be reinstated.”
My statement… pic.twitter.com/kbyqXgHncf
— Reggie Bush (@ReggieBush) July 1, 2021
The former USC running back said that he has reached out in the last couple months to the NCAA and the Heisman Trust to discuss the return of his Heisman, a trophy he rightfully won in 2005, when he was the best and most popular player in the country. A trophy stolen from him five years later when...
