Not because I think it's dramatically inconceivable that he accepted cash and other favors from a sports agent/marketer when he was at USC. That kind of seems hard not to believe. What I'm skeptical of is that the majority of the revelations in "Tarnished Heisman" are from, to quote the Los Angeles Times story today, "interviews with Lloyd Lake, who tried to secure Bush as a client for the marketing company he and others attempted to launch." And on top of that, the book's authors admit that they compensated Lake for agreeing to participate in the book.
Let's see: a whole book based on the claims of a disgruntled person with shady past and a grudge to settle, who is paid by the authors for his troubles. Yeah, I can't imagine that there's any blurring of the lines of journalistic integrity there. There would be no reason for the authors, after paying Lake, to pressure him to ensure that the revelations had sufficient sizzle and offered new, shocking claims not already uncovered by Yahoo! Sports. Except for the fact that, apparently, without that, they have no book.
The whole thing is dodgy. I give it a week before it's completely off the news cycle
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lying about involvement in a gross violation of NCAA rules for fun and profit? that's just downright unethical!
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