NCAA Denies Player's Hardship Waiver
COSTELLO: A college basketball player who already lost two family members now learns the NCAA won't let him on the court this season. Andy Scholes is here with "Bleacher Report." Good morning.</s>ANDY SCHOLES, BLEACHER REPORT: Yes, good morning Carol. Well Kerwin Okoro he lost his father and brother in the last year so he decided to transfer from Iowa State to Rutgers to be closer to home but the NCAA says he's going to have to sit out this season if he wants to play for the Scarlet Knights. Now this is another case of the wording of the rule getting in the way of doing what's right. You can get a hardship waiver to play right away if you have a sick family member, but if a family member dies you're out of luck. Okoro tweeted about the rulings saying "I'll make the wise decision of staying off social networks today because if I express my feelings right now I might just say the wrong thing." Now Rutgers does plan on appealing the NCAA's decision. Well Mike Tyson is back in boxing but he's not lacing up the gloves. Tyson is now a promoter in charge of Iron Mike Productions. His first event will be tomorrow night in New York. And Tyson may not be knocking anyone out anymore, but he still knows how to get people excited for a fight.</s>MIKE TYSON, BOXING PROMOTER: I'm a little nervous here but I'm just so excited about being involved with this whole establishment. And I don't know. I need some fighter to come over and say I'm going to kill him or something, and I want you to talk about his mother. Come on now we got to sell tickets, man. Come on, man.</s>SCHOLES: We've seen some awesome pool dunks this summer, but this one is going to be hard to top. The ball changes hands 11 times, there's multiple trampolines, kids on roller blades, a gorilla suit and Carol the dunker is wearing a go pro camera so we're actually going to get to see this dunk from his point of view.</s>COSTELLO: Ok, oh we're lucky.</s>SCHOLES: Yes the gorilla didn't even touch the ball. He was just a prop. He just jumped right through, and dove into the pool.</s>COSTELLO: I wonder how long it took them to do that.</s>SCHOLES: I think they had a blueprint, you know like "Home Alone" where he threw it up, and this was probably what they did here. Pretty, pretty cool stuff, though.</s>COSTELLO: Yes interesting use of a trampoline.</s>SCHOLES: There goes the gorilla.</s>COSTELLO: Andy Scholes, thank you so much. The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM after a break.