NFL notes: Scare over Bush's knee short-lived

METAIRIE, La. -- Reggie Bush reached down to grab his left knee, gasped as if in pain, then looked over at the sideline, grinning.
Bush realized he'd caused a stir Wednesday morning when he suddenly walked off the practice field and returned with his surgically repaired left knee wrapped in ice.
So during the club's second practice of the day in the evening, the star running back took a moment to joke about it, then returned to full participation in team drills.

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"I iced it just as a precaution, so when I ice it, that means I'm just maintaining," Bush said between practices. "I've got to stay on top of it and treat it as if it was the first day I injured it."
Bush had surgery on his left knee in December to repair cartilage. Drafted second overall in 2006, the Heisman Trophy winner out of Southern California has missed 10 games in his past two seasons, including four games in 2007 because of a posterior cruciate ligament tear, also in his left knee.
Goodell reassures retired players on benefits
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is reassuring retired players that their pensions and benefits would not be reduced in a labor dispute, refuting statements made by the NFL Players Association.
In a letter sent to the NFL Alumni Board of Directors on Wednesday, Goodell says claims made by the union - including NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith - "have no basis in fact."
Smith told a group of retired players at a meeting in Las Vegas in June that their benefits would be affected.


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