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The Heisman Trust, which manages college football’s most prestigious athletic award, said today that former University of Southern California star Reggie Bush could get his Heisman Trophy back and his college career statistics restored — that’s IF the NCAA removed sanctions against him. The Friday statement from the Heisman Trust comes in response to Bush’s…

Image Source: Getty / Patrick Smith Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, 21, who won the 100-meter race at the Olympic Trials last month, has tested positive for marijuana. The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced the positive test on Friday morning, and Richardson has accepted a one-month suspension. Her ineligibility began on June 28. According to the USADA,…

Books about an idealized American character often make for a body of elusive, exasperating speculations, delivered either on the fly or from a special-pleading pulpit of one sort or another. So there’s something appealing about reversing the polarity of such inquiries, and pursuing the fugitive American character through a series of allegedly representative books. That’s…