The New York Yankees’ newly drafted player drew a swastika on the door of a Jewish student’s dorm room when he was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Nebraska, The Athletic reported on Wednesday.

“I felt like the worst person in the world,” Core Jackson told the sports newspaper of the incident that took place in 2021.

He said that he was “blackout drunk” and that he “broke down in tears” when someone told him what he had done the next day.

Jackson was fined by the university and ordered to perform community service and undergo online sensitivity training, according to the Guardian. Jackson was not arrested and his baseball career did not suffer any consequences, the report added.

Responding to a request for comment, the University of Nebraska said that it “takes discriminatio

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