Sooners issue policy for athletes' use on Internet

The football violations included:

•  Providing too much money to a football player to return home for the holidays because of an incorrect address;

•  Coach Bob Stoops and two assistants inadvertently visiting a recruit's basketball game that had been rescheduled because of an ice storm;

•  Stoops mentioning at a news conference the name of a walk-on player who was technically still a prospect;

•  Stoops sending an impermissible text to a recruit when he thought he was sending an e-mail from his BlackBerry device;

•  Assistant coach Jackie Shipp taking a recruit to a restaurant he thought was on campus; and

•  The program improperly providing meals and lodging worth $361.95 on a recruit's official visit because of a mix-up regarding his legal guardian.