Reggie’s Bush’s tarnished legacy is similar to another famous athlete

Reggie Bush’s tarnished legacy in a nutshell: The former USC star is the Pete Rose of college football.…

Through selfishness, recklessness and a glaring lack of contrition, Bush and Rose hurt themselves far worse than they harmed anyone else.…

Their names are four-letter words.…

Manny Ramirez is coming back.…

He and the Chicago White Sox will be in Anaheim next week.…

Clayton Kershaw was in the audience last February when Sandy Koufax said he would define a “quality start” as one ending when the starter “shakes hands with the catcher.” …

On Tuesday, by that definition, Kershaw finally made one.…

“If Frank and Jamie McCourt could just pause for a moment to pull the knives out of each other’s backs,” reader Axel Kyster of Bradbury e-mails to suggest, “maybe one of them could stick a fork in the Dodgers.” …

The most compelling reason to tune in to Dodgers telecasts these days — at least when Kershaw isn’t pitching — is to see if long-in-the-tooth rookie John Lindsey is still smiling.…

His broad, beaming mug fairly shouts, “It was worth the wait.” …

Mike Scioscia’s idea about shortening the baseball season is a good one, but why stop at only four games? …

Double that number, at least, and play the World Series earlier — before hypothermia is a realistic threat to spectators.…

Terry Bradshaw, chiding suspended quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for hanging out at college bars and “disrespecting” women, said Sunday on Fox, “If I owned the Steelers, hear me loud and clear, you would not be a Steeler.” …

USC fans hoping Lane Kiffin would stir memories of his predecessor had Pete Carroll in mind, not Paul Hackett.…

Message emblazoned on T-shirts worn by a group of Oregon fans Saturday at Tennessee: “We hate Kiffin too.” …

Does Rick Neuheisel ever view video of his sideline behavior, angrily berating his quarterbacks, and wonder if maybe there’s a better way to send his message? …

This one isn’t working. …

Common sense tells you that Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions made a spectacular game-winning catch Sunday. …

The NFL tells you he did not.…

Seven of the 12 teams that made the NFL playoffs last season opened the 2010 season with losses.…

Sam Bradford on Sunday became the first rookie quarterback to start an opener for the Rams since 1964, when Bill Munson helped the then-Los Angeles Rams to a victory at Pittsburgh. …

Munson passed for 55 yards.…

Bradford made 55 passes.…

Can’t win for trying: Even with his name sullied for months because of a sex scandal, Tiger Woods still is not the most disliked figure in sports, according to the Q Scores Co.…

That honor goes to Michael Vick, whose image in Philadelphia might be on the upswing after Sunday’s performance.…

Nine Grand Slam titles into his career, Rafael Nadal still lives at home with his mother and tells ABC News that tidying his room is a priority: “I think that’s one of the things I really have to improve.… I sometimes make her work very difficult.” …

All those trophies collect dust.…

Lamar Odom, thought for a time to be on the trading block this summer, again showed off his value in helping Kevin Durant and Team USA win the world championship.…

An open letter from the Minnesota Timberwolves to their fans, published in an advertisement this week in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, included these stirring words: “So will we challenge for the NBA championship this year? Not likely.” …

At least they’re honest.…

Seventy years ago Thursday, rookie Johnny Lucadello of the St. Louis Browns became the first player in major league history to hit the first two home runs of his career from opposite sides of the plate in the same game.…

He hit only three more home runs the rest of his career. …

Mark Sanchez, asked whom he’d like to trade places with for a day, tells Sporting News Today, “My best friend Scott, so I would know what it is like to have the coolest best friend ever.” …

What a coincidence, reader Molly R. Freedman of El Segundo e-mails to note, that Ilya Kovalchuk’s revised deal with the New Jersey Devils will pay him an average annual salary of $6.66 million.

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