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This morning on "world news now" -- basketball bombshell. a star player from brigham young university is thrown off the team. >> he admitted to breaking the schools strict honor code by having premarital sex. it is friday, march 4th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. im mike marusarz in for rob nelson. >> im peggy bunker. >> that byu player, brandon davies, is a star athlete. well get the latest saying davies made a difficult confession but it was a...

Sound like a headline on college campuses but at byu thats a violation of the honor code, something the school administrators take far more seriously than even a potentially historic season. >> its not about right and wrong. its about commitment. >> reporter: the honor code is a reflection of the lds church, mormons run the private university. not only does their code require students to live a chaste and virtuous live which the school says premarital sex is not, but it also insists that student...

Is a specific violation of the mormon schools honor code. yesterday byu head coach dave rose and its superstar player reacted. >> the way i feel about this, brandon did the right thing. his heart is in the right place. i think a lot of people try to judge this. if this is right or if this is wrong. and thats -- thats not the issue. its a commitment that you make. >> he told us everything. he told us that he was sorry and that he let us down. we held our heads high and told him its okay. dont -- ...

Its taken seriously. >> its not egypt or libya, its more like kosovo. thank you so much, paul. >> my pleasure. >> paul feinbaum. hes a great sports journalist. anybody thats followed him in alabama, he goes after both sides, tough. he has for 30 years, telling the truth. loathed by all, then everybody, you wake up one day and suddenly everybody loves him and respects him. they know hes going to tell the truth. >> hes the man down there. >> he really is. what a sad story. >> it is. >> what about ...

Davies was kicked off the basketball team after he admitted to having premarital sex, a violation of the schools honor code. here is davies teammate. >> we have to pull together. we just -- i think were going to be all right. we didnt play well tonight. >> have you talked to brandon? >> he told us he was sorry and that he let us down and we held our heads high and told him its okay. you know, its something thats life, and you make mistakes and you just got to play through it. >> the teams coach ...

Do by honoring the honor code. >> we get where youre going. they call it good, clean fun in the old days. >> exactly. >> davies suspension comes at a wrong time for the number three rank eed cougars. march madness almost here. >> understood. i think its even more something that i think sports people probably are disappointed at. you get fans who are. but, at the same time, its a -- as far as davies goes, its something that he can learn from. you know, you pull all of that away -- ill give you an...

Would be realistic at all. >> jay, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> "the pirates of somalia." still ahead, violating the honor code. a star college athlete kicked off the team for having sex. also rob will have the travel forecast after the break. its 43 minutes past the hour. . for adults, stelara® helps control moderate or severe plaque psoriasis with 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. in a medical study, 7 out of 10 stelara® patients saw at least 75% clearer skin at 12 week...

Standing and get him back to the basketball team as soon as we can. >> so he came to you guys. and this honor code at byu, you know, its strict. you cant drink coffee, no tea, no alcohol obviously, and part of this honor code statement says you have to live a chaste and virtuous life. what does that phrase cover? premarital sex? >> theres various consequences for the various violations of the honor code. i mean, certainly if someone broke the honor code by having a cup of coffee, it would be dif...

Did. >> i actually -- and this is true, as true as rumors can be -- i was told there was a jealous married player. it makes sense. thats what is the rumor mill. >> you asked if the honor code applies to caffeine. it says to abstain from alcoholic beverages, coffee, tea and live a virtuous life and respect others. >> how is this a college desm -- college? >> here is the thing bill, and greg. byu and people like me use words like honor, code and loyalty as the backbone of a life worth defending so...

With this flamboyant star, who said successfully to a lot of scrutiny. >> i think, like i said, scrutiny is like this massive thing, know, and this century. and for nikola and i and for everyone that we work with its all about your peers, its about people that you respect. its about knowing your own strength, artistically. >> another story a lot of people are talking about, brigham young university kicked a player off its basketball team for breaking the schools honor code. a code that each stud...