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Reggie Bush and the painful memories

2010 and beyond will be OK. Trying to forget greatness will be the hard part

Updated: August 14, 2010, 1:35 PM ET
By Mark Saxon | ESPNLosAngeles.com

A few years ago, when the storm of NCAA sanctions was still swirling way offshore, people who thought they were in the know about USC liked to dismiss some of the penalties that were coming.

Scholarship limits would sting, they said. Bowl bans would hurt.

Who cares about voiding victories, repossessing Heisman Trophies or wiping out records? What's in the past is in the past. It won't wipe away those cheerful memories of crushing victories far from home, triumphs in the Coliseum ...

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