Over a decade after becoming the only player to ever be stripped of the Heisman Trophy, former USC running back Reggie Bush is fighting back.
Bush is alleging the NCAA defamed him in a new lawsuit against the organization, he announced in a press conference Wednesday. The suit, filed in a Marion County, Ind. court, seeks the reinstatement of Bush’s records from 2003 to ’05.
In the lawsuit, Bush says that the NCAA’s reasoning for punishing him in 2010—the claim that he participated in a “pay for play” scheme with the Trojans—is “patently false.”
