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January 2012, Sports Media
Buffs' Four-Star Recruit Apologizes for Tweets
Colorado four-star cornerback recruit Yuri Wright admitted in an interview with ESPN.com Wednesday to making a "huge mistake" with the language he chose to use on his Twitter account.
Wright, a standout at Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J. until he was expelled last week, committed to Colorado on Tuesday. He was expelled after school officials said he ignored months of warnings about his racially insensitive and sexually explicit tweets, the Boulder Daily Camera reported.
Wright, who lives in Spring Valley, N.Y., had other scholarship offers from Rutgers, Notre Dame (where Don Bosco teammate Elijah Shumate recently committed), Alabama, Georgia, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, USC, Virginia and Wisconsin. Michigan withdrew its offer after a concerned alumnus sent the school verbatim tweets.
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