This is just bizarre…although considering how sports and social media become more and more intertwined every day, perhaps it shouldn’t seem so bizarre anymore.
Royce White, a highly recruited basketball player from Minnetonka who chose to stay home and play for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, has announced via YouTube that he is quitting the Minnesota basketball team.
White has been suspended for the entire start of the 2009 season after having an altercation with a mall security guard, and then his name later came up in a dorm theft investigation.
White maintains his innocence but says in the video that he is quitting to keep his family, Tubby Smith, and his Golden Gopher teammates from having to deal with the distractions.
To which I, and many others who have watched the video, are responding, huh?
