3 Minnesota basketball players suspended after sex-tape tweets
Minnesota will finish the college basketball season without three players -- including its leading scorer -- after one of them reportedly posted very incriminating and NSFW videos on Twitter.
Leading scorer Nate Mason, along with freshmen Kevin Dorsey and Dupree McBrayer, will miss the remainder of the season, which is just two games, thanks to two tweets Dorsey posted Friday night.
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Dorsey posted two explicit videos Friday night, then deleted the tweets, then deleted his account. But the tweets, which were widely seen by Golden Gophers supporters, reportedly showed Dorsey and two other men involved in sex acts with one or more women, according to multiple fans who watched the videos and posted about them online. Mason's father confirmed to ESPN that the videos did indeed show all three players.
On Tuesday, Minnesota coach Richard Pitino released a statement saying all three had been suspended for the season's remaining two games, after already missing the team's game last Sunday.
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Mason, a sophomore, was the team's leading scorer at just under 14 points per game.
His father, Nate Mason Sr., told ESPN that his son "didn't know his friend would put [the video] on social media."
To put a new spin on an old phrase: With teammates like these, who needs opponents?
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Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
