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Former football star Reggie Bush defeats burglar during home invasion attempt at California mansion
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Former Heisman trophy winner Reggie Bush stopped a burglar from invading his mansion in Encino, California, Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to TMZ.
Bush lives in a gated property in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles that was worth $5.65 million in 2019, according to Variety. The home reportedly has an alarm system and surveillance cameras, in addition to its gate.
The incident occurred at around 11 p.m. Tuesday. Bush was home at the time and yelled, which apparently scared the suspect off.
Former Southern California Trojans running back Reggie Bush attends a game against the LSU Tigers at Allegiant Stadium. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
At least one suspect fled by jumping out one of the windows of the house. Police officers found shards of broken glass on the ground behind the house when they arrived, according to multiple reports.
Bush’s defense of his home this week is the latest incident of him having to defend his prized possessions after taking back his Heisman trophy this year.
As the winner of the 2005 Heisman Trophy, he forfeited the trophy in 2010. A yearslong investigation determined Bush and his family received benefits from a would-be sports agent who was not affiliated with USC, according to reports. Bush had his Heisman victory vacated, and the games Bush played at USC in 2005 were also vacated.
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Reggie Bush, a USC tailback, holds the Heisman Trophy during the 2005 Heisman Trophy presentation at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City, Dec. 10, 2005. (Michael Cohen/WireImage)
In April, the Heisman Trophy Trust announced the formal “reinstatement” of Bush’s trophy nearly 15 years after he voluntarily returned it.
In August 2023, he filed a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA over a July 2021 statement. His lawyers claimed the NCAA’s statement falsely indicated “because of Mr. Bush’s prior involvement in a ‘pay-for-play arrangement,’ the NCAA would not consider restoring his collegiate records that it vacated in 2010.”
Bush was a record-setting running back at USC under head coach Pete Carroll and was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft.
Bush had an 11-year NFL career, playing for the Saints, Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers.
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Reggie Bush during a 2004 USC game (IMAGN)
However, Bush has also praised the NCAA recently. In an interview with Fox News Digital last week, Bush applauded the new college football playoff format, saying it “should have always been this way,” regarding the expansion to a 12-team format.
“Every other sport has a true playoff system. Even high school football has a true playoff system,” Bush told Fox News Digital while discussing his excitement to be part of Team Modelo, headlining the full-time fan recruiting contest.
“I’ve always felt like, why is college football the only sport that doesn’t have a true playoff system? I think it was unfair to the sport because when we won, we were co-national champs in 2003 with LSU. We wish we could’ve just played LSU that year and played for the No. 1 spot, but we didn’t get that opportunity.”
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Ravens LB Kyle Van Noy calls Chiefs training staff ‘unprofessional’ after injury during game against Kansas City
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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy said the Kansas City Chiefs training staff acted in an “unprofessional” manner when tending to him for an eye injury he sustained during a Week 1 game at Arrowhead Stadium on Sept. 5.
During an episode of his podcast “McCoy & Van Noy,” Van Noy said he sustained a fractured orbital bone and needed to see an ophthalmologist but was left waiting in the locker room.
“I was disappointed in the way the training staff of the Chiefs handled the situation. When you get hurt, especially something that could be serious like mine was, you’re supposed to rely on the (home) team’s training staff or their doctors,” he said. “They took an entire quarter to get down to talk to me in the locker room, which to me is unacceptable. Because then you start thinking, ‘What if I was trying to go back in the game? What if I was really, really hurt?’”
Van Noy added that a doctor or “the friend of the doctor” that assessed him “was in there double cup fisted Styrofoam cups like everything was good” and pointed out that Chiefs players gave their training staff an F when grading for the NFL Players Association team-by-team report cards in February.
“I understand how Kansas City — the players — have given that training room an F because with my experience I would have probably after that gave them an F, too.”
The Chiefs finished 31st overall ahead of only the Washington Commanders in the graded rankings. The Ravens gave their training staff a B- and finished 15th overall.
John Harbaugh said Wednesday that Van Noy hadn’t spoken to him about the situation but the linebacker’s comments were sent to him.
“I don’t know what happened or didn’t happen. I have respect for everybody involved,” Harbaugh said. “I have respect for medical people everywhere in the league, of course. Our place, Kansas City, every place in the league I have respect for. I have the utmost respect for the players, certainly Kyle Van Noy. He’s my guy. I love him. This is one of these guys who competes and fights and does everything he can to be the best player he can.”
Van Noy, a veteran who is playing his 11th season in the league, said he didn’t want a response from the Chiefs but did express his disappointment in how the situation unfolded.
“As a player, people have that expectation of you being professional, handling business. In a time of need, I wanted that from them, and I felt like I didn’t get it. Then you get into, did they take their time because I’m a Ravens player? … I don’t think it was that, but at the same time I don’t want them to come out and apologize.”
After the news broke, Van Noy was approached by reporters in the team’s locker room but he declined to speak.
A spokesperson for the Chiefs said the team declined to comment.
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Commissioner says WNBA has a 'Bird-Magic moment' with a white Caitlin Clark, Black Angel Reese
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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is being criticized by some of the league’s players and their union for what she said — and didn’t say — in response to a question about “menacing” and “uncharitable” comments made by fans on social media regarding players like Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky.
While interviewing Engelbert on Monday’s episode of “Power Lunch” on CNBC, anchor Tyler Mathisen mentioned that an on-court rivalry between the rookie superstars seems “to have taken a darker turn, a more menacing turn” among some fans on social media, “where race has been introduced into the conversation, where sexuality is sometimes introduced into the conversation.”
Mathisen asked Engelbert: “How do you try and stay ahead of that, try and tamp it down or act as a league when two of your most visible players are involved — not personally, it would seem, but their fan bases are involved — in saying some very uncharitable things about the other?”
Engelbert’s response focused mainly on how such rivalries actually can be beneficial to the league.
“The one thing that’s great about the league right now, we do sit at this intersection of culture and sports and fashion and music. Like, the WNBA players are really looked at now as kind of cultural icons. And when you have that, you have a lot of attention on you,” she said.
“There’s no more apathy. Everybody cares. It is a little of that Bird-Magic moment if you recall from 1979, when those two rookies came in from a big college rivalry, one white, one Black. And so we have that moment with these two.
“But the one thing I know about sports, you need rivalry. That’s what makes people watch. They want to watch games of consequence between rivals. They don’t want everybody being nice to one another.”
Engelbert added that she advises players to ignore social media trolls.
“It’s a balance,” she said, “but certainly from a marketing [perspective], the corporate partners are stepping up to endorse these players much more so than they were five years ago because they see the benefit of having women and diverse women representing their brand.”
Women’s National Basketball Players Assn. executive director Terri Jackson considered Engelbert’s response to be a missed opportunity.
“Here is the answer that the Commissioner should have provided to the very clear question regarding the racism, misogyny, and harassment experienced by the Players: There is absolutely no place in sport — or in life — for the vile hate, racist language, homophobic comments, and the misogynistic attacks our players are facing on social media,” Jackson said in a statement Tuesday.
“This is not about rivalries or iconic personalities fueling a business model. This kind of toxic fandom should never be tolerated or left unchecked. It demands immediate action, and frankly, should have been addressed long ago.”
Engelbert addressed the controversy Tuesday night with a post on X.
“During a recent media interview, I was asked about the dark side of social media and online conversation about WNBA rivalries and race,” she wrote. “To be clear, there is absolutely no place for hate or racism of any kind in the WNBA or anywhere else.”
Clark and Reese have yet to address Engelbert’s comments directly, although Reese reposted Jackson’s statement on X and her Instagram Stories. Last week on her podcast “Unapologetically Angel,” Reese said that some of Clark’s fans, but not Clark herself, have been “very disrespectful” toward her and “I think there’s a lot of racism when it comes to it.”
In June, Clark was asked about people who use her name to push things like racism and misogyny.
“Yeah, I think it’s disappointing,” she said. “I think everybody in our world deserves the same amount of respect. The women in our league deserve the same amount of respect. People should not be using my name to push those agendas. It’s disappointing. It’s not acceptable.”
Many WNBA players have spoken their minds about the commissioner’s comments during the CNBC interview.
“I think that it’s kind of disappointing to hear because the way that the fans have surged, especially behind Caitlin and Angel coming to this league, but also bringing, like, a race aspect, to a different level,” New York Liberty star and WNBPA vice-president Breanna Stewart said Tuesday.
“And you know, there’s no place for that in our sport. I think that’s really what it is. We want our sport to be inclusive for race, for gender, and really a place where people can be themselves. So we wish, obviously, Cathy would have used her platform in a different way, and have made that a little bit better, kind of just telling the fans enough is enough.”
Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum told ESPN on Wednesday that it was “hard to hear” Engelbert’s remarks.
“It’s pretty clear, there’s a difference between rivalries and racism,” Plum said. “Big difference.”
Teammate Alysha Clark told ESPN: “I think there was an opportunity for her to really be able to take hold of what’s been going on and let people know that regardless of the amount of dollars that are coming in, regardless of whatever, racism and misogyny and homophobia, they have no place in our league, and they have no place regardless of how popular our sport is.”
She added: “It’s taken a darker turn in terms of the types of comments and the vitriol that’s coming through to the players, and it’s not OK. I wish [Engelbert] would have just said that — ‘It’s not OK.’”
Connecticut Sun guard DiJonai Carrington told reporters Tuesday that Engelbert came up short after being given “a silver platter to address” a serious issue for her players.
“You can’t control social media,” Carrington said. “But that has nothing to do with what you can do and using your voice and your platform to try to put a stop to it.
“Or to just say, this is not the type of behavior that we endorse as the league. And as the commissioner who has what, probably 90% Black people or people who identify as Black in some way shape or form in the league, I think it was kind of eye-opening because the things that we have all experienced this season have been pretty sickening.”
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NFL playoff projections 2024: The Athletic’s model predicts the field
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Welcome to our 2024 NFL projections, where you will find each team’s probability of conquering its division, advancing through the playoffs and winning the Super Bowl. The projections are based on 100,000 simulations of the remainder of the season, which factors in each team’s projected strength, current health as well as its remaining schedule. All projections and probabilities are rounded to the nearest whole number. You can read more about the model at the bottom of the page. The projections will be updated regularly throughout each week.
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