I wore my Reggie Bush jersey out in public yesterday, with at least a little bit of pride. The Saints are a natural pick for anyone in the 619 to root for, with Drew Brees at quarterback and one of San Diego’s own in the backfield. Geaux Saints, Geaux Reggie!
By the end of the second quarter of the NFC Championship Game, there wasn’t much pride for Reggie Bush. In one of the dumber plays since Vincent Jackson kicked the challenge flag, Bush decided to not fair catch a punt. At the 15. On the sideline. With a defender one step away from him at a full run. And with less than two minutes on the clock.
To make it even more laughable, Bush muffed the punt BEFORE he got lit up by the gunner. Minnesota recovered the fumble. The Vikings were given an ultimate gift: first and goal at the 10 in a 14-14 game to close out the half.
Then, Adrian Peterson decided to upstage Reggie Bush, starting his own fumblepalooza by snapping his arms together before Brett Favre handed him the ball, coughing it up for Scott Fujita to recover. By game’s end, Reggie is up on the FOX desk being interviewed as one of the “stars of the Saints”.
The Vikings were going to give away that game yesterday, even if they had to belabor the point. But for Reggie Bush, there should be nothing more than a quiet celebration. Bush would have been one of New Orleans’ all-time sports goats if Peterson hadn’t returned the favor.
As another Bush would say of another famous New Orleans’ flop, Heck of a Job, Reggie!
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by Chris Ello on January 20, 2010
If you’ve followed Aztecs basketball, for a long while or just a little, you knew that the shot somehow was going to go in.
Never mind that Utah’s Carlon Brown was only a step past half court and double-teamed along the sideline when he let it go. Once again, the SDSU men’s basketball team had frittered away a seemingly insurmountable lead in the final minutes and — just like at Wyoming a couple of weeks ago — was doing everything it possibly could to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Plus, the Aztecs never win at Utah. Well, almost never. The Padres have been to the World Series the same number of times SDSU had left Salt Lake City with a win.
Brown’s shot was directly on line from 45-feet away, airborne just as the final horn sounded. But, for once, a miraculous comeback defeating the Aztecs wasn’t in the cards. The ball hit the heel of the rim and bounced away as SDSU hung on for a 70-68 victory.
The win was a big one for the Aztecs, who got a career-high 23 points and 13 rebounds from Malcolm Thomas, and improved to 14-5 overall and 3-2 in the Mountain West Conference. They rallied from nine points down at the half to beat TCU at home on Saturday and now have won two straight.
The winning streak comes on the heels of two disappointing losses on the road in which SDSU blew second-half leads, including the game in Laramie 10 days ago when they were up by 14 with just over four minutes left and lost by two.
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