{"id":2473,"date":"2014-06-29T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2014-06-29T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T20:31:40","slug":"texas-tech-dismisses-cornerback-after-he-punches-female-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2014\/06\/29\/texas-tech-dismisses-cornerback-after-he-punches-female-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech dismisses cornerback after he punches female in the face"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A punch thrown to the face of a female basketball player has ended cornerback Nigel Bethel’s time at Texas Tech before it even began.<\/p>\n

The freshman was the highest rated incoming player for the Red Raiders.<\/p>\n

Bethel punched a female basketball player Amber Battle in the face during a pickup game on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigel Bethel II, a Texas Tech football student-\u00ad\u2010athlete, has been dismissed from the team due to his role in an incident at the Texas Tech Student Recreation Center on Saturday, June 28. Texas Tech Athletics has a zero tolerance policy on this type of behavior,\u201d assistant athletic director Blayne Beal said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Battle will need surgery according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lady Raider star Amber Battle is expected to have surgery after she was hit in the face by Bethel at Texas Tech\u2019s recreation center, the Avalanche-Journal has learned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No word what led Bethel to punching Battle though it is worth mentioning that Battle led the Lady Raiders with 16.4 points per game and had a team high 7.4 rebounds. At 5-foot-9 she is the same height as Bethel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A punch thrown to the face of a female basketball player has ended cornerback Nigel Bethel’s time at Texas Tech before it even began. The freshman was the highest rated incoming player for the Red Raiders. Bethel punched a female basketball player Amber Battle in the face during a pickup game on Saturday. \u201cNigel Bethel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[135,134,40],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-2473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-ncaafb","10":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}