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Manziel to boycott Heisman ceremonies for Bush Gut-Behramin captures super-G, nears overall title

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Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel says he'll be staying away from Heisman ceremonies until Reggie Bush “gets his trophy back.” Manziel, the 2012 Heisman winner, announced on social media.

“Doesn't sit right with my morals and values that he can't be on that stage with us every year,” Manziel said on X. “Reggie IS the Heisman trophy.”

Bush, who won the trophy in 2005, had his award vacated after USC was hit with NCAA sanctions when it was found that Bush and his family received money and gifts during his time with the Trojans from fledgling marketing agents who were hoping to represent the rising football star.

Manziel called on the NCAA to “do the RIGHT thing.”

Bush was a member of the College Football Hall of Fame's class of 2023.

Swiss star Lara Gut-Behrami is gliding toward the overall World Cup title in the extended absence of defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin since a crash in January.

Gut-Behrami won a super-G race in Kvitfjell, Norway, to earn 100 race points and pad her lead to 305 over Shiffrin, who should return next weekend with six races left this season.

• Marco Odermatt recovered from a first run that left him trailing and a poor start in the second to pull out a victory and extend his World Cup giant slalom winning streak to 12 races, in Aspen, Colo.

Odermatt, the 26-year-old Swiss star who already has clinched both the overall and GS titles this season, moved two away from Ingemar Stemark's World Cup record of 14 consecutiv­e wins in one event, set more than 40 years ago.

Odermatt is the reigning Olympic

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