Reggie Bush Fires Marketing Agent

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush has apparently fired his controversial marketing agent, Mike Ornstein, and word leaked out in a strange way, Yahoo sports reports:

Ornstein revealed his split with Reggie Bush when he called a New Orleans-area businessman last week and canceled a $5,000 order for 120 turkeys that Reggie Bush planned to give to Saints players and team officials for Thanksgiving, said Glenn Mistich, owner of the Gourmet Butcher Block that filled the order.

"He told me, 'Reggie and I aren't working together anymore,' " Mistich said Sunday. "I don't know what happened. I don't know if Reggie even knows about [the canceled order]."

Well, first of all, let's hope Bush learns about the canceled order in time to make amends. We don't want anyone going without Thanksgiving turkey. (And, seriously, from all accounts Bush is a nice young man, and this kind of gesture is the type of thing that makes me say that.)

But more importantly, this whole relationship between Bush and Ornstein should cause both the NCAA and the NFL Players' Association to more closely scrutinize the patnerships between agents and young players who make lots of money and don't always know what to do with it. Ornstein has done a great job of getting Bush endorsements and of helping him become a beloved figure in a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. But Ornstein has also been convicted of defrauding the NFL, and there are allegations that he was actively helping Bush skirt NCAA rules while he was still at USC. That the two of them have gone their separate ways is probably good news for Bush.

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