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Days aft USA Today "reporter" Nancy Armour compared Caitlin Clark allegedly flopping connected nan hoops tribunal to nan group who lynched Black group — no, this isn't satire — nan outlet published a mendacious study astir why Clark skipped nan WNBA Orange Carpet connected Thursday.
According to different USA Today "reporter," Heather Burns, Clark skipped nan arena to "get her hairsbreadth done successful her hometown of Des Moines."
As expected, nan study riled up nan anti-Clark and anti-White brigades crossed nan WNBA community. How situation she skip nan arena for a hairsbreadth appointment?
NANCY ARMOUR'S DISASTROUS CAITLIN CLARK ARTICLE EXEMPLIFIES WHY SPORTSWRITING AND SPORTS MEDIA IS FAILING
Well, she didn't.
Clark missed nan arena because she was — hold for it — hosting a kindness meal successful her hometown.
Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) plays against nan Connecticut Sun astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Ind., connected July 22, 2026. (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)
USA Today yet corrected its mendacious study connected Friday, issuing nan pursuing note:
"Clarification: Caitlin Clark was attending an arena for nan Caitlin Clark Foundation, which is why she missed nan WNBA All-Star Weekend Orange Carpet."
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There is, of course, a problem pinch that "clarification." It wasn't a clarification. It was a afloat correction. The full premise of nan original study was false.
Further, nan outlet owes Clark an apology for publishing inaccurate accusation that portrayed her successful a antagonistic light. USA Today framed Clark arsenic selfish. In reality, her logic for missing nan Orange Carpet was thing but selfish.
USA Today Sports Columnist Nancy Armour, WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark (Lucas Boland/USA Today; Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
OutKick contacted USA Today for comment, asking whether it plans to apologize to Clark and whether it will admit that it issued a afloat correction alternatively than a specified clarification. The outlet had not responded by nan clip of publication.
We will update this communicative if we perceive back.
That said, it's difficult to spot really USA Today tin take sides its sum of Caitlin Clark complete nan past week. Invoking Emmett Till and lynching successful a file astir an alleged flop during a hoops crippled was egregious. The truth that Nancy Armour remains employed undermines immoderate credibility nan USA Today newsroom has left.
Burns' study was arsenic troubling. It was truthful easy disproven that it raises questions astir really overmuch effort went into verifying nan accusation earlier publication. We fishy not much.
Caitlin Clark No. 22 of nan Indiana Fever reacts aft a flagrant foul by Diamond DeShields No. 0 of nan Chicago Sky astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago, Ill., connected Aug. 30, 2024. (Getty Images)
Armour and Burns are pathetic journalists. USA Today is simply a putrid outlet.
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"As I tweeted earlier, USA Today is for illustration a edifice concatenation that kept getting traded to caller backstage equity firms, who wring nan money retired arsenic it continues to deteriorate," sports media newsman Ryan Glasspiegel told OutKick. "This affinity is ironic successful nan consciousness that hotels were a large portion of nan newspaper's business for respective decades."
It mightiness beryllium clip for USA Today to unopen it down — aft it apologizes to Caitlin Clark, of course.
Bobby Burack is simply a writer for OutKick.
