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Southern California AD: Reggie Bush is ‘contrite’
Recently hired Southern California athletic director Pat Haden says Reggie Bush apologized to him and expressed regret in a phone call last week. “He’s really contrite,” Haden said of Bush, according to USA Today. “He knows he made a series of mistakes. It wasn’t just one mistake. It was a series of mistakes.”
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Sports in Brief: Kovalchuk again is a free agent
Ilya Kovalchuk is back on the free-agent market. An arbiter has decided that the NHL acted correctly in voiding Kovalchuk's landmark $102 million contract with the New Jersey Devils. The league had rejected the 17-year contract, saying the longest deal in league history violated its salary cap.