Cincy F Gates offers tearful apology (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

Suspended Cincinnati forward Yancy Gates cried on Monday as he apologized for his role in an on-court brawl with No. 8 Xavier, saddened that he's being called "a thug, a gangster" for punching players. The Bearcats' four suspended players were told to attend a news conference and apologize for their actions during the closing seconds of a 76-53 loss to the Musketeers on Saturday...

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[Southpaw]

No one was shown in the replays more than Gates, a 6-foot-9, 260-pound player who flattened Xavier’s Kenny Frease with a blindside punch. Frease got a cut below the left eye and fell to the court, where he was kicked by another Cincinnati player.

“I’m just not that type of person,” Gates said, his eyes tearing. “A lot of people have been calling me a thug, a gangster …”

Gates then lowered his head and wiped away tears before covering his eyes with his black and red warmup shirt and crying.

So I imagine that was an out of body experience or it was someone impersonating Gates. Only that "type of person" does what he and other players did. Pathetic apology.