Arkansas tight end Jeremy Sprinkle has apologized after being suspended hours before Thursday's Belk Bowl for attempting to shoplift from a Belk department store earlier in the week.
"To my family, friends, teammates, coaching staff, colleagues, the University of Arkansas, Razorback nation, the Belk Bowl, and, most of all, the young children that look up to me, I am truly sorry for this unfortunate and completely avoidable occurrence," he said in a statement. "I have embarrassed myself, my team, and my parents, who raised me to be an upstanding man of high moral character.