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K2 Sports: Colin Kaepernick goes GQ and shoplifting UCLA players come home
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Nov 15, 2017
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K2 Sports: Colin Kaepernick goes GQ and shoplifting UCLA players come home
Three UCLA basketball players, LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, embarrassed the university when they were accused of shoplifting in China.
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Three UCLA basketball players, LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, embarrassed the university when they were accused of shoplifting in China.

Three UCLA basketball players, LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, embarrassed the University when they were accused of shoplifting in China.

But hours after President Donald Trump said he talked to his Chinese counterpart, all charges were dropped and the teens were allowed to leave.  Today, they held a press conference where the school announced that they were suspended from the team indefinitely.  The players thanked President Trump and apologized for their arrests in China.

And GQ magazine has jumped into the NFL national anthem protest story by naming Colin Kaepernick as Citizen of the Year.

We'll talk about that, and a lot more with