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KamaAina

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Wed Apr 1, 2015, 02:18 PM Apr 2015

Wisconsin nixed a T-shirt that may have violated NCAA rules

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/nigel-hayes-has-yet-to-receive-one-of-the-t-shirts-he-inspired-235339814.html

One of the Wisconsin campus bookstore's best-selling Final Four-themed shirts no longer is available for purchase....

The inspiration behind the shirt in question was the way Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes has tested NCAA tournament stenographers, whose job is to transcribe interviews, by intentionally mixing in hard-to-spell words during news conferences. The bookstore printed a shirt featuring seven of Hayes' words in block letters: "Cattywampus, Onomatopoeia, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Soliloquy, Quandary, Zephyr, Xylophone."

Patrick Herb, Wisconsin's assistant director of athletic communications, told Yahoo Sports that director of compliance Katie Smith learned about the shirts after the bookstore had already begun selling them. Though the bookstore is a third-party vendor that is not affliated with the university, Smith still believed the use of Hayes' words on the T-shirt went against NCAA amateurism rules preventing the sale of merchandise with a player's name or likeness on them....

Before the shirt was removed from the bookstore's website, the sales pitch accompanying it referred to Hayes without actually using his name. It read, "What does a Wisconsin basketball player say when they realize there is a stenographer is in the room ... 'Cattywampus, Onomatopoeia, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Soliloquy, Quandary, Zephyr, Xylophone' of course; or would you just call them beautiful?"




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Wisconsin nixed a T-shirt that may have violated NCAA rules (Original Post) KamaAina Apr 2015 OP
Yeah, that looks just like ol' Nigel "Cattywampus" Hayes all right. Scuba Apr 2015 #1
I want one. a kennedy Apr 2015 #2
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