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Former Long Beach State pitcher Watts-Brown commits to OSU Watts-Brown was a heavily pursued prospect by a bevy of big name schools out of the transfer portal due to a quality freshman season last Daniel Allen He recorded a Staff Reporter year. 3.68 ERA at Long Beach State this past OSU coach Josh season, along with 111 Holliday continues to strikeouts and a 4-4 hit the transfer portal record on the mound hard this offseason. in 12 starts. His On Sunday successful freshman afternoon, Long campaign included Beach State a complete game sophomore rightno-hitter back in May handed pitcher against UC Riverside. Juaron Watts-Brown announced his commitment to OSU out of the transfer portal, becoming the third pitching transfer sports.ed@ocolly.com for the Cowboys.
File Photo The OSU pitching staff earned a boost with the addition of Long Beach State transfer Juaron Watts-Brown.
Will Smith apologizes on video for slapping Chris Rock at Oscars Jami Ganz New York Daily News
OSU implements new NIL policies for student-athletes, staff With the rapid rise of NIL, OSU’s athletic department established new policies for its student-athletes and staff.
Student-athletes who chose to participate in NIL activities must report to and be approved by OSU within 72 hours. If a student-athlete fails to comply with any rules, they would be subject Gabriel Trevino to the NCAA’s discipline, Sports Editor which could affect one’s eligibility and scholarship. When advertising For over a year, OSU themselves, their activities and its athletic director, or other products, a studentChad Weiberg, have athlete may use OSU logos navigated and embarked and trademarks, but with the down a path to evaluate and written consent of the OSU govern NIL for studentDepartment of Licensing. athletes across campus. Student-athletes are not Last week, OSU allowed to use OSU logos released a draft of policies for provided lessons. for student-athletes to follow OSU does not allow its who wish to maximize on student athletes to promote their NIL opportunities. some commercial products, The first guideline is such as the legal use of perhaps the most important: marijuana, alcohol and
tobacco, or with companies associated with profanity and racist, sexist or hateful language. For student-athletes who own personal businesses, they are to register with OSU and report all monthly revenue from the business, as well as yearly reports on revenue, expenditures and taxes each March. Student-athletes who want to attend autograph signings for compensation, they are to report to OSU the location, time and date of the signing before appearing, as well as all revenue generated from the signing within 14 days after the event. Finally, OSU gave its athletic department
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rules to follow, prohibited staff members to aid student-athletes in NIL opportunities. As NIL continues to grow and evolve, OSU also made it explicitly clear that they are able to amend its policies at any time. “The institution reserves the right to revise these policies as the Name, Image and Likeness environment evolves to provide the institution with the ability to adjust these requirements in order to maintain appropriate monitoring ability as required and/or expected by state law, NCAA rules or institutional policy.” sports.ed@ocolly.com
I apologize to you,” he continued. “My behavior was unacceptable and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.” Rock, 57, has been slowly opening up about the incident at the March 27 awards show in Los Angeles after keeping mostly quiet about it. He gave his most revealing take over the weekend at his Sunday comedy show at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. “Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face,” said Rock, an eyewitness told Us Weekly. He also added, “I’m not a victim,” according to the magazine’s source.s In the video Smith posted on Friday, Smith also apologized to Rock’s mother. “I saw an interview that Chris’ mother did and, you know, that was one of the things about that moment. I just didn’t realize — I wasn’t thinking — but how many people got hurt in that moment. So I want to apologize to Chris’ mother. I want to apologize to Chris’ family, specifically Tony Rock,” he said, noting he and Rock’s younger brother,
Four months after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, Will Smith has apologized on camera for the move that shocked viewers around the world. “It’s been a minute... Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and personal work... You asked a lot of fair questions that I wanted to take some time to answer,” reads the text opening the video he posted on Facebook Friday. A somber Smith, 53, then sits down in the video to do just that, beginning with answering, “Why didn’t you apologize to Chris in your acceptance speech?” “I was fogged out by that point,” said Smith, who shortly after slapping Rock for a joke made about wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s short hair accepted the best actor Oscar for “King Richard.” Pinkett Smitt, 50, suffers from alopecia. “It’s all fuzzy,” Smith added. “I’ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that he’s not ready to talk and when he is, he will reach out.” “So I will say to you, Chris, See Smith on page 3