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From the Associated Press :
Arkansas coach Houston Nutt has decided that his players who are caught loafing will no longer wear pink jerseys during practices in an effort to avoid offending breast cancer survivors.
Nutt said Monday that he had received negative reaction from people when they saw the players in the pink jerseys. Breast cancer survivors and their supporters often wear pink ribbons and the nationwide Race for the Cure, which raises funds for breast cancer research, uses the color pink as well.
Nutt said the coaches are considering another color, possibly burnt orange, the color of Arkansas rival Texas.Nutt said Monday that he had received negative reaction from people when they saw the players in the pink jerseys. Breast cancer survivors and their supporters often wear pink ribbons and the nationwide Race for the Cure, which raises funds for breast cancer research, uses the color pink as well.
“That’s the last think I want to do, is to offend a cancer victim, someone who I know how strong and brave they are,” Nutt said. “That was the last thing on our mind, to discredit somebody who has shown a lot of toughness. I’ve had members of my family who had cancer.”
Nutt said the coaches are considering another color, possibly burnt orange, the color of Arkansas rival Texas.
Which, will of course, offend Oompa-Loompas and WWOR newsreader Reg Wells.