Cody Riley, Jalen Hill and LiAngelo Ball are finally coming home.
The UCLA basketball freshmen were arrested Nov. 7 morning local time in Hangzhou, China. UCLA Athletics announced Tuesday that the three freshmen accused of shoplifting have boarded a flight back to Los Angeles.
All charges against the basketball players have been dropped, according to a report from China Sports Insider.
A UCLA Athletics representative wrote in an email Tuesday morning that Riley, Hill and Ball will share statements with the media Wednesday at approximately 11 a.m., followed by coach Steve Alford and athletic director Dan Guerrero. None of the participants will be answering questions.
“We take seriously any violations of the law,” wrote Chancellor Gene Block in an email addressed to the campus community. “Both Athletics and the Office of Student Conduct will review this incident and guide any action with respect to the involved students.”
This comes a day after the Washington Post reported President Donald Trump personally asked China’s President Xi Jinping to resolve the pending legal case. Xi assured Trump that the players would be treated fairly and expeditiously, the Post reported.
Riley, Hill and Ball were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting from three high-end stores in a shopping center next to the team’s hotel in Hangzhou but were released on bail Nov. 8. Since then, ESPN reported they have been confined to their hotel but allowed to venture across the street to get food.
Both UCLA and Alford declined further comment following the Bruins’ season-opening 63-60 win over Georgia Tech in Shanghai on Saturday afternoon local time.
Wednesday’s media availability will take place on the morning of No. 23 UCLA’s (1-0) matchup against unranked Central Arkansas (1-1), a team that did not make the NCAA Tournament last season. This will be the Bruins’ first home game of the regular season.
The Central Arkansas Bears are coming off of a 99-51 victory over University of the Ozarks, but were also handed a 107-66 defeat at the hands of No. 25 Baylor on Friday.
The game will start in Pauley Pavilion at 6 p.m.
“Cody Riley, Jalen Hill and LiAngelo Ball are finally coming home.”
You’re missing an Oxford comma unless “Jalen Hill and LiAngela Ball” is the name of a single person.
If you read around, you can see their style (like AP style) doesn’t require an Oxford comma.
Use of the Oxford comma may not be in their style guide, but it should be, not least of all because its use is the dominant rule in American English. And in any case, effective communication has not been achieved any time the communicator is calling attention to any unusual uses of words or grammar when communicating, and distracting from the underlying message.
Its use is not the dominant rule in American English.
Again, Associated Press style, followed by major newspapers, does not require the Oxford comma. This debate is so well-worn it’s become a cliché, and moreover you’re incorrect.
Literally zero of your claims are true. It is dominant, and its primary detractors among American English speakers hold this position primarily out of a need to be contrarian.
The New York Times, and AP as you mentioned, are among those representing a minority of authorities opposing use of the comma.
A selection of American style manuals supporting its use: the GPO, MLA, Chicago Style, AMA, Elements of Style. In other words, the style manuals that dictate the style of writing that would be expected from the very students here at UCLA require the Oxford comma.
Daily Bruin is well within its right to mirror the AP style that discourages the use of the serial comma, but the reality is that the majority of English speakers write in a manner otherwise.
Unlike most of the associations you named, Associated Press style provides guidelines for news writing. DB is following a well-established, internationally-respected style guide for journalism. Literally all of these claims are true.
You’re simply trying to confuse this dialogue. You claimed the Oxford comma is not dominant. That is false. The AP style provides guidelines on the Oxford comma for users that represent a tiny minority of American English users. The Oxford comma is dominant.
An Oxford comma is redundant since it would come before a conjunctive, but there are a few exceptions to that, I’m sure.
The idea is the comma separates the two parts connected by a conjunctive, to demonstrate that the two parts are distinct. The comma removes ambiguity. In any case, the Oxford comma is the standard in American English.
The Wikipedia page on the Oxford comma has an interesting example. With reference to a book dedication: “To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.” This would suggest that the dedicator’s parents are Ayn Rand and God.
What an embarrassment to one of the finest universities in the world… If they were white students from the biology dept having done this… they would have been kicked out school before landing on US soil.. Unfortunately these 3 can throw a ball in the hoop and are black and they’ll get a pass. What a sad world we live in…
CNN BREAKING NEWS: Trump interferes to deny three African-American youths opportunity of fair trial.
Good one buddy… oh so true and oh so sad…
Keep these ballplayers out of Muslim countries. It is very hard to play ball with no hands.
These guys shouldn’t be treated like heroes.
They embarrassed UCLA, and they should be expelled.
No one is celebrating them. They are an embarrassment. If John Wooden were around, they’d be suspended from the team.
Why so long for the university to make a decision on their fate? At the very least, they should have been booted permanently from the team immediately. Didn’t happen. School suspension? Didn’t happen. What can they say about it that surveillance videos of them stealing didn’t show? Foot dragging and preferential treatment for athletes is all I can assume.
game time is 8pm
A suspension is in order, since shoplifting is a misdemeanor. They better show contrition and apologize for embarrassing UCLA. Community service is called for.
10 game suspension at least.
More like a 30 game suspension, at least.
And no stupid statements from Lavar Ball.
No joy in Westwoodville on this one. The players, if they are allowed to stay in school, need some strong discipline. A total embarrassment to the UCLA family.
these three ucla basketball players who BROKE the law are free for one reason right now. daily bruin won’t print it, and neither will the ucla administration voice it. they were freed because president trump ASKED chinese president xi jinping to intervene so these law-breakers could return home quickly unscathed. now, the ball is in ucla’s court. what will ucla do???
Um, perhaps they haven’t said it because it’s pretty obvious. It’s common knowledge that Trump got them released. Now, what I want to see is discipline. They need to be suspended if not expelled. The administration needs to think, what would John Wooden do?
when someone does you a favor, don’t you thank them properly?
CNN is too busy on Russian collusion…. hard for them to let that go..lol
What? You don’t think the days that the Pac-12 and State Dept spent dealing with this matter got them released?
pac12 did nada. state department website states: “The Department of State is committed to ensuring fair and humane treatment for U.S. citizens imprisoned overseas. We stand ready to assist incarcerated citizens and their families within the limits of our authority in accordance with international law, domestic and foreign law.” So, it was President Trump personally talking to Xi Jinping to get these three ucla players released quickly and unscathed. larry scott said he was grateful to their hosts, but failed to thank trump and xi by name. bad form
I believe they should have been kept in a Chinese jail and put on trial. Now they are being made out as heroes who got the attention of the US President plus a special favor from China’s leader. Wrong on so many accounts. The punishment now should be they lose any scholarships and have to do community service in China Town. Also, I would require they lose any on-campus residence for one year and have to practice extra hours.
As a Bruin Alumnus, I won’t accept anything less than 1 year suspension from all basketball activities and community service. They embarrassed our country, our school and their families. We, the alumni, will be watching along with prospective future student-athletes and their parents.
Lavar Ball said Liangelo would be “one and done”.
What he meant is one game and done.
What would John Wooden do?
He was a man of great integrity and honor, and he most certainly would not have tolerated this behavior from his players. That’s what the university needs to think about. Our great UCLA Legacy is at stake.
As an alumnus, class of 95, class of Champions, we won the championship that year. Good times. So much Bruin Pride, we can’t let our beautiful tradition be tarnished by these fools. They need to go. They should lose any scholarships and be off the team.
I think they should throw them off the team.