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Riley Gaines, nan big of "The Riley Gaines Show," torched USA Today writer Nancy Armour complete her caller and arguable Caitlin Clark column.
In nan sentiment portion published earlier this week, Armour compared nan lynching of Emmett Till to Caitlin Clark putting "Black" and "queer" WNBA players "in danger."
"It shouldn’t request reminding this state has an atrocious history of Black group being harmed, moreover killed, successful nan sanction of 'defending' White women. The irony of nan WNBA's All-Star Game is that it's happening this play successful Chicago, nan hometown of Emmett Till, who became an icon of nan civilian authorities activity aft his tragic murder," Amour wrote.
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US blimpish governmental activistic Riley Gaines speaks extracurricular nan US Supreme Court arsenic justices perceive arguments successful challenges to authorities bans connected transgender athletes successful women's sports connected January 13, 2026, successful Washington, DC. (Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)
"The section creation assemblage is presently hosting an grounds imagining his life if he hadn't been lynched. While it’s incumbent connected nan WNBA to do much to protect its players, location besides should beryllium an anticipation connected Clark to admit nan broader implications of her actions being weaponized. "
Of each nan bad takes astir Clark, Gaines said Armour’s was nan "worst 1 by a mile," adding that she was dumbfounded by nan comparison.
"Do you recognize what Nancy Armour is doing there? She's connecting Emmett Till's lynching to Caitlin Clark's talent and accomplishment group and behaviour connected nan hoops court. Excuse me?" Gaines said connected a caller section of "The Riley Gaines Show."
Gaines continued her excoriation of Armour, calling nan writer "insane" for comparing Till’s lynching to Clark’s actions connected nan hoops court. Till was a 14-year-old Black teen who was abducted, tortured and yet lynched successful 1955 Mississippi aft an accusation from a White woman
USA TODAY REPORTER APOLOGIZES FOR INVOKING EMMETT TILL IN COLUMN ABOUT CAITLIN CLARK AFTER UPSETTING THE WOKE
Caitlin Clark No. 22 of nan Indiana Fever warms up earlier a crippled against nan Portland Fire astatine Moda Center successful Portland, Ore., connected May 30, 2026. (Getty Images)
"These group are insane," Gaines said. "They person mislaid their expertise to deliberation rationally. That is virtually dormant and gone. In what world do those 2 things connect? Honestly, moreover aft reference nan portion I don't cognize wherever she's going pinch this."
Gaines proceeded to telephone Armour an all-time "rage-baiter."
"Maybe it's conscionable for illustration all-time rage bait. Like dropping Emmett Till's sanction successful an article astir nan WNBA All-Star game, that's sewage to beryllium an all-time rage baiter. I don't know, possibly I'm falling for it. Maybe this is what Nancy Armor wanted," Gaines said.
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USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour has a lengthy history of injecting her far-left authorities into sports. (Lucas Boland/USA Today)
Armour apologized for invoking Till successful her file and called it an "inartful comparison."
"In my caller column, I made an inartful comparison pinch nan execution of Emmett Till. I intended to link nan issues nan WNBA is presently facing pinch its All-Star Game being hosted successful Till’s hometown of Chicago," Armour wrote successful an apology posted Thursday connected Bluesky.
"I evidently did not supply capable discourse for that."
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