The College of Colorado Buffaloes misplaced greater than only a soccer sport final Saturday. The gamers and coach say thieves went into their locker room through the motion and stole a ton of invaluable jewellery.
“Our children bought robbed through the sport final week. I feel that is a travesty,” mentioned head coach Deion Sanders at a press convention earlier this morning.
“NCAA, you do one thing about every part else. Do one thing about this.”
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Heist occurred through the sport
The theft occurred on the famed Rose Bowl in Pasadena, dwelling to the UCLA Bruins, the place Colorado misplaced to UCLA 28-16. A number of gamers returned to the dressing room to search out that non-public jewellery left in there had disappeared. A number of items of non-public and soccer gadgets had been additionally taken. The Pasadena Police have launched an investigation into the incident, in accordance with the LA Instances.
“In the course of the sport, they stole my chain,” mentioned one dejected participant exterior the stadium that evening.
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UCLA mentioned in a press release that it’s “in communication with regulation enforcement, Rose Bowl Stadium officers, and the College of Colorado (CU) on the matter.”
Sanders Needs Reimbursement
Assembly with the press earlier this morning, Sanders requested that the NCAA reimburse the gamers.
“I’d anticipate the NCAA to do one thing about that. That is the Rose Bowl,” he mentioned. “The granddaddy of ’em all, proper? I am certain Granddaddy has some cash. Grandpa ought to have some cash to present these youngsters.”
Sanders mentioned that the children had obtained instruction on managing their funds, however the classes didn’t embrace insuring their gadgets. “We slipped, and we did not educate them on that.”
He requested his gamers to present him a tally of the stolen gadgets.
“I am gonna have a listing made out from these younger males, and I do know they will be truthful about what they misplaced, so we are able to attempt to get that again for them. We have to reimburse them.”
Sanders closed his assertion with a pointed message to the NCAA. “You do one thing about every part else. Do one thing about this one.”