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3 UCLA basketball players apologize for shoplifting in China
msn ^ | Nov. 15, 2017 | ap

Posted on 11/15/2017 2:25:54 PM PST by Morgana

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting in China apologized Wednesday before coach Steve Alford announced they were being suspended indefinitely.

LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley were described as "good young men" by Alford at a campus news conference.

The coach said the trio wouldn't be allowed to suit up, practice or travel with the team while the university continues to sort out the circumstances of last week's incident in Hangzhou, China.

Ball, Hill and Riley took turns acknowledging their actions and apologizing while also thanking President Donald Trump for intervening on their behalf with his Chinese counterpart. Athletic director Dan Guerrero also spoke, but no one took questions from a throng of media.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: alford; alfordplea; basketball; china; footballplayers; shoplifters; stevealford; trump; ucla; uclabasketball
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To: Morgana

Dump them now

They are not good young men. They are entitled and spoiled


21 posted on 11/15/2017 2:50:13 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Morgana

Steve Alford = role model.


22 posted on 11/15/2017 2:51:03 PM PST by iowamark
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To: livius

“Actually, they thanked “the government” first and then added Trump.”

Bet that tasted like vinegar.

rwood


23 posted on 11/15/2017 3:05:12 PM PST by Redwood71 (uality, they want better)
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To: Morgana

“oach Steve Alford announced they were being suspended indefinitely.”

should have been expelled from the school.


24 posted on 11/15/2017 3:07:36 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Redwood71

They clearly didn’t want to do it...although he’s the one who got them out.

B**tchy Dem creeps.


25 posted on 11/15/2017 3:09:06 PM PST by livius
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To: Morgana
shoulda let their ratched azzes pay for their crimes
26 posted on 11/15/2017 3:23:45 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Morgana
Shoplifting is,IMO,never a good idea.Shoplifting in a country that executes tens of thousands of people a year...many of them secretly...is a bad idea to the tenth power.
27 posted on 11/15/2017 3:25:27 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Morgana

Shoot! We could have traded “Bowe” Bergdahl for them.


28 posted on 11/15/2017 3:31:29 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: stylin19a

GOOD YOUNG MEN ???

Holy cow-—

Where were most Freepers when they were 18?

In the military—drafted?? Already in Vitt Nam??? Or Korea???

I graduated from high school at age 17, and by the time I turned 18, I already had a full time job in the Divisional Offices of Kroger in Madison, Wis, and I had bought my first car-—without any help from my parents.

I would bet that many Freepers were not much different at age 18.

I certainly didn’t travel to China on the local university nickles....

Nor did I shoplift-—in another country- state—county or close to home-—or ANYWHERE.

These kids are a disgrace.


29 posted on 11/15/2017 3:52:53 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Eddie01
Suspended indefinitely means until next week.

Given Alford's shameful history, that's probably exactly right.

30 posted on 11/15/2017 3:56:54 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Morgana

They were fortunate this wasn’t North Korea.


31 posted on 11/15/2017 3:57:20 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Morgana

“I always knew my son could lead the NCAA in steals!”

— LaVar Ball —

“BBB: Big Burglar Brand shoes”


32 posted on 11/15/2017 3:57:33 PM PST by BoneStricker
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To: Morgana
Good young men? No coach, al the other team members that were good, honest representatives of America and UCLA were good young men, those three turds were emblematic of the ghetto culture of "gonna gets mine", because some shit that happened to some Black people in America over a hundred and fifty years ago, and not good young men. They are thieves and an embarrassment.
33 posted on 11/15/2017 3:58:11 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Morgana

That Black Privilege of shoplifting didn’t go over so well with the Butchers of Beijing.


34 posted on 11/15/2017 4:42:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800><p><h1>NYC 9-11 Memorial 09/11/2016</h1>)
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To: ealgeone
They were fortunate this wasn't North Korea.

True words indeed. I actually agonized over what happened to the young man there. As you and everyone knows he took down a poster in a hallway. He was merely staying there on a young peoples educational trip.

A guy like myself would have toed the line in a country such as China. Been on my very best behaviour. Yes, lucky guys with little common sense.

35 posted on 11/15/2017 6:26:58 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra

Visited England and France a while back. Even in those two countries I was very aware I was not in America and had to conduct myself as such.


36 posted on 11/15/2017 7:03:01 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ridesthemiles

amen


37 posted on 11/15/2017 7:11:20 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: Morgana

hmmm Maybe China gave them back because they DIDNT WANT THEM :(( !


38 posted on 11/15/2017 7:20:50 PM PST by PraiseTheLord
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To: ealgeone

“They were fortunate this wasn’t North Korea.”

It would have taken Dennis Rodman to get them out.

rwood


39 posted on 11/15/2017 7:32:09 PM PST by Redwood71 (uality, they want better)
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