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Riley Gaines: Caitlin Clark's maltreatment rooted successful jealousy, not title aliases sexuality
Riley Gaines addresses nan contention surrounding WNBA prima Caitlin Clark, asserting that concerns for Clark stem from her exceptional talent, not her title aliases sexuality. Gaines suggests jealousy from different players is fueling nan on-court maltreatment and nan league's 'self-imploding' nature. She questions nan double standards applied to different athletes.
USA Today "reporter" Nancy Armour has apologized for invoking Emmett Till successful a file targeting — who else? — Caitlin Clark.
"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 — wherever else? — Bluesky. "I evidently did not supply capable discourse for that."
USA TODAY WRITER SAYS CAITLIN CLARK PUTS BLACK AND QUEER WNBA PLAYERS 'IN DANGER' BY FLOPPING
For background, Armour published 1 of nan astir desperate and irresponsible sports columns of nan twelvemonth earlier this week, arguing that Clark's reactions to missed calls put "Black" and "queer" WNBA players "in danger."
Paraphrasing Armour's statement wouldn't do it justice. So present it is:
"It shouldn’t request reminding this state has an atrocious history of Black group being harmed, moreover killed, successful nan sanction of 'defending' achromatic women. The WNBA’s All-Star Game this play is successful Chicago, Emmett Till’s hometown, and a 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 wider consequences of her actions."
In different words, according to Armour, defending Clark's flopping someway puts Black women astatine consequence of lynching.
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)
Honest question: How did USA Today not occurrence her connected nan spot?
Forget her opinions aliases her correct to sound them. A nationalist news outlet allowed a columnist to move a regular hoops play — flopping — into a chat astir nan lynching of Black Americans.
The affinity is truthful detached from reality that it raises questions astir nan editorial process that allowed it to beryllium published. At nan very least, Armour should beryllium fired for exercising specified stupidity.
We tin only ideate what was going done her caput erstwhile she wrote those words. She apt believed she was scoring points pinch nan Bluesky crowd by showing really consenting she was to vilify nan consecutive White superstar and her fans. We haven't seen personification successful sports media effort this difficult to impressment nan online activistic people since ESPN's Mark Jones falsely accused constabulary officers of trying to execution him.
Connecticut Sun guardant Diamond Miller was called for a method foul for after-whistle interaction connected Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark successful nan 2nd half astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Ind., connected July 22, 2026. (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)
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OutKick asked USA Today whether it instructed Armour to rumor nan apology. We did not person a consequence by nan clip of publication.
But we're not convinced nan outlet made nan call.
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In fact, Armour whitethorn person outdone moreover herself. In trying truthful difficult to beryllium she's woke, she ended up offending galore of nan aforesaid group connected Bluesky, who accused her of minimizing and trivializing nan execution of Emmett Till.
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)
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These group genuinely are incredible. They cannot screen Caitlin Clark normally.
Still, nan truth that a file astir Clark ended up comparing her on-court behaviour to lynching achromatic group is simply a level of excess that would impressment moreover Jemele Hill.
Bobby Burack is simply a writer for OutKick.
