Vancouver Canucks forward and former Ohio State hockey player Dakota Joshua wasn't shocked that his younger brother, Jagger, who plays for Michigan State, was subjected to a racial slur during a Nov.…
Vancouver Canucks forward Dakota Joshua decries"terrible situation" in which his brother, Michigan State's Jagger Joshua, was subjected to racist slurs during game vs. Ohio State.Vancouver Canucks forward and former Ohio State hockey player Dakota Joshua wasn't shocked that his younger brother, Jagger, who plays for Michigan State,"You would like to think we've come a long way, especially over recent years, but obviously still keeps happening," Dakota said.
Jagger Joshua went public about the incident on Nov. 21, saying he was disappointed that Ohio State and the Big Ten had not done more to address the issue after an on-ice official penalized senior forward Kamil Sadlocha with a game misconduct. "The ignorance of racism does not belong in our game," Jagger's statement read,"and I feel that I need to make people aware that this incident occurred because, without acknowledgment, the problem gets worse.""There's no room for that in this game and in life in general," he said."It's a terrible situation to be a part of. But goal is to put it out there, so people can learn from it and hope it doesn’t happen again.
Although Ohio State and the Big Ten initially ruled that Sadlocha being ejected from the game was sufficient because the conference said, there was an"absence of indisputable evidence" about what happened, OSU has since offered a new,“I want to offer my sincere and heartfelt apology to Jagger Joshua,” athletic director Gene Smith said in a statement. “On behalf of Ohio State University, I am so sorry.
Smith went on to say that Sadlocha had returned home and was not practicing or competing with the team “at this time.”
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