Reggie Bush helped pick house

[Dan Thompson]

From the LA Times today

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-newswire22jan22,1,1206103.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=5&cset=true

[Ardmore_Sooner]

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[OUDoc]

Got a bugmenot login?

[cvsooner]

Bush helped pick house, Lake says
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
January 22, 2008


Reggie Bush helped pick out a house that a would-be sports marketer bought for his family to live in while he was playing at USC, according to a television report that will air tonight.

In an interview for a segment of HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel," Lloyd Lake says Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, visited and then requested the purchase of a San Diego-area home that Lake's partner eventually bought.

Part of the segment was taped in the driveway of the Spring Valley home where Bush's family allegedly lived rent-free. Michael Michaels, who was Lake's business partner, purchased the home.

"Reggie rolled up here, looked at some houses and, you know, he basically said, 'This is the one we want,' " Lake told Real Sports correspondent Bernard Goldberg.

Bush and his family are under investigation by the NCAA for allegedly receiving extra benefits from marketing agents during the 2004 and 2005 seasons. The New Orleans Saints running back has maintained that he and his family did nothing wrong.

Michaels has since settled with Bush.

Lake, who is suing Bush, tells Goldberg that the running back's stepfather, LaMar Griffin, had approached him about starting a sports marketing business after Lake was released from federal prison. Lake has said that he gave Bush $13,000 to purchase a 1996 Chevrolet Impala and thousands more to detail the car. He told Goldberg he provided Bush with $3,000 a month while he was playing for USC.

The segment also includes alleged excerpts from conversations between Lake and Griffin that Lake secretly taped.

Meanwhile, ESPN reported that Bush ripped into Lake while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

"It's cowardice," Bush said. "You take their shots in the media, but they won't show up in court. . . .

"They don't want to see us in the courtroom. The lawyers are ducking and dodging us. The hang-up is they don't want to give us their deposition. . . . But at the same time, they're doing interviews and making the media rounds? . . . It's like a trash talker on the field. If you're serious, meet me on the 50-yard line."

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Yeah but thats not as bad as getting paid for hours you didnt work:rolleyes:

[MextheBulldog]

Meh, more Kim Kardashian talk and less housing talk.

[CatfishSooner]

please...USC crash AND burn...please

[85sooners]

:pop:

[The_Red_Patriot]

:pop:

Ditto


Nothing will happen to them and its time for all of us to accept it.


......I really hope I am wrong

[Stoop Dawg]

If you're serious, meet me on the 50-yard line."

Why not the 35?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/386254/browns_hit_on_reggie_bush_07_playoffs/

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Why not the 35?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/386254/browns_hit_on_reggie_bush_07_playoffs/


The way he played this year, the only place he was meeting anybody was behind the line of scrimmage

[OUDoc]

The way he played this year, the only place he was meeting anybody was behind the line of scrimmage
:D

[snp]

"It's cowardice," Bush said. "You take their shots in the media, but they won't show up in court. . . .

"They don't want to see us in the courtroom. The lawyers are ducking and dodging us. The hang-up is they don't want to give us their deposition. . . . But at the same time, they're doing interviews and making the media rounds? . . . It's like a trash talker on the field. If you're serious, meet me on the 50-yard line."

You mean like the last guy who took you to court who you settled with and had him sign a gag order?

[KingDavid]

You mean like the last guy who took you to court who you settled with and had him sign a gag order?

word.

In other words: Meet me in court. Then we'll slink off to a side-room and I'll pay you off nice and proper.

even if this guys totally on crack, Bush deserves this for not nipping it in the bud when he had the chance.

[KingDavid]

Why not the 35?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/386254/browns_hit_on_reggie_bush_07_playoffs/

Glorious. Gotta light yer green up fer dat. Spek.

[Dan Thompson]

"Lake has said that he gave Bush $13,000 to purchase a 1996 Chevrolet Impala and thousands more to detail the car."

Is this more that Rhett got?

[soonerbock]

After the Yahoo story broke I asked my cousin who lives in San Diego to go by and take some pics of the house. Here are a few for anyone curious:

http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/4/1/22/f_IMG2477m_7fe0f3b.jpg

http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/4/1/22/f_IMG2478m_d6e7961.jpg

http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/4/1/22/f_IMG2479m_0791a8a.jpg

http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/4/1/22/f_IMG2480m_ceebd8b.jpg

[swardboy]

Mow your yard, LaaaaaaMar.

[TopDawg]

In other news:

Chase Daniels helped pick nose

[snp]

After the Yahoo story broke I asked my cousin who lives in San Diego to go by and take some pics of the house. Here are a few for anyone curious:

http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/4/1/22/f_IMG2477m_7fe0f3b.jpg

http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/4/1/22/f_IMG2478m_d6e7961.jpg

http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/4/1/22/f_IMG2479m_0791a8a.jpg

http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/4/1/22/f_IMG2480m_ceebd8b.jpg

This is why I love message boards.

[101sooner]

Why would a house in San Diego need a fireplace?

[Whet]

Why would a house in San Diego need a fireplace?
Cuz it gets cold out there! Sometimes it gets down to 60.... Plus, it gave the family a place to burn incriminating contracts signed by Reggie...

[OUMedMan]

So why is Lake in the slammer?

Drugs?

Extortion?

And just exactly how did he get this huge sum of money that he allegedly gave Bush's family?

[aero]

I've wondered and haven't seen it said anywhere - where did his parents live before the house "allegedly" purchased for them? Did they own a house prior to this one? Were they renting and if so how much was the rent on their previous house compared to what the rent would go for the one "allegedly" purchased for them? Seems the answers to those questions would shine some light on the situation. Most people don't move from, say, low income housing to something drastically different in price range without some sort of change in income.

[AlbqSooner]

I recall reading that they were previously living in an apartment - 2 bed, perhaps 3. Didn't say how much the rent was.

[KingDavid]

I recall reading that they were previously living in an apartment - 2 bed, perhaps 3. Didn't say how much the rent was.

They were all living in a leather boot. A large, leather boot.

[aero]

They were all living in a leather boot. A large, leather boot.
Well then, nothing out of the ordinary there.

[Crucifax Autumn]

Why is him help picking the house a surprise? He wanted HIS momma to feed him chicken in a nice place.

As for the fireplace, Bush probably wanted it so he could crank the AC down to 40 so when he had pete over it'd be cool enough to snuggle up under a blanket in a romantic setting.

[oudivesherpa]

Looks like the NCAA doesn't care--it's USC

[The_Red_Patriot]

Real Sports on HBO did a piece on it last night and all I have to say is ....

DAMN!!!

How is this being swept under the rug???


If this is Michigan, LSU, OU, TX, etc.. the national media would be piling it on.

I just don't get it.

[snp]

I wouldn't say it's being swept under the rug. Here's all the evidence that has been collected so far:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=AgviSORF16FxEoRll9hEmBY5nYcB?slug=ys-bushdocuments011008&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Stoop Dawg]

I've wondered and haven't seen it said anywhere - where did his parents live before the house "allegedly" purchased for them? Did they own a house prior to this one? Were they renting and if so how much was the rent on their previous house compared to what the rent would go for the one "allegedly" purchased for them? Seems the answers to those questions would shine some light on the situation. Most people don't move from, say, low income housing to something drastically different in price range without some sort of change in income.

One of the nice things about facts is that they are not relative.

The house wasn't purchased for them, they were there on a lease.

It doesn't matter if they owned a house prior, or how much their mortgage/rent might have been. What matters is whether they received improper benefits. Evidently, they never paid the rent on the new house. Does that make it an "improper benefit" or does it just make them dead-beats?

[MamaMia]

One of the nice things about facts is that they are not relative.

The house wasn't purchased for them, they were there on a lease.

It doesn't matter if they owned a house prior, or how much their mortgage/rent might have been. What matters is whether they received improper benefits. Evidently, they never paid the rent on the new house. Does that make it an "improper benefit" or does it just make them dead-beats?
I would say that if they weren't evicted after a couple of months of not paying rent, that would make them in violation.

[Soonersince57]

;)
The way he played this year, the only place he was meeting anybody was behind the line of scrimmage

[goingoneight]

Some people are holding onto hope that USC will be punished. It's NOT going to happen. They've been in deeper than this before, folks.

[Soonersince57]

Why is him help picking the house a surprise? He wanted HIS momma to feed him chicken in a nice place.

As for the fireplace, Bush probably wanted it so he could crank the AC down to 40 so when he had pete over it'd be cool enough to snuggle up under a blanket in a romantic setting.

:D LMAO


Us rubes here in Oklahoma just don't understand the high finance of housing purchases in southern California.

[tulsaoilerfan]

Why not the 35?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/386254/browns_hit_on_reggie_bush_07_playoffs/
That was pure greatness!!

[SanDiegoSoonerGal]

Why would a house in San Diego need a fireplace?

We have two.

It's 49 degrees in my neighborhood right now. Definitely appropriate fire weather.

[SOONERxWife73]

i would think the money being paid to reg would have at least paid a professional decorator to do the windows so they looked a little better from the outside..just saying

[Desert Sapper]

They were all living in a leather boot. A large, leather boot.

Get it right. It was a shoe.