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Some vitriol toward Caitlin Clark is 'self-induced,' ESPN's Stephen A Smith says
Fox News ^ | June 19, 2025 | Ryan Gaydos

Posted on 06/19/2025 3:05:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 06/19/2025 3:05:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Yeah sure agent smith. The better one is in the matrix, the more they’ll come after you. She’s good.


2 posted on 06/19/2025 3:09:14 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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Bullchips


3 posted on 06/19/2025 3:09:58 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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She gives almost as much as she gets sometimes.


4 posted on 06/19/2025 3:21:14 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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No doubt...
She has the nerve to be a non-criminal white girl, and that is disrespectful to other players...


5 posted on 06/19/2025 3:21:21 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Uh huh.


6 posted on 06/19/2025 3:22:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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The nappy-headed hoes don’t look kindly on a honky chick making them look bad.


7 posted on 06/19/2025 3:23:17 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: ComputerGuy
Oh, Caitlin can clap at ya now, Caitlin can antagonize ya now.

Words? Trash talk? Gestures? These are the slings and arrows from CC that instigate on-court tackles, eye pokes, body checks,
and outright grabbing and hand fouls?

If her speech and gestures are on par with the physical damage induced, then why isn't there a category of foul to deal with it?

8 posted on 06/19/2025 3:24:01 PM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stephen A always talks like his head is on fire. I never take him seriously but he is fun to watch while he explodes.


9 posted on 06/19/2025 3:29:18 PM PDT by shelterguy
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In the NBA, this kind of physical harassment is kept down by the fear of retaliation. “You go after our star, we go after yours.”


10 posted on 06/19/2025 3:33:05 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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What a bunch of crap.

Clark has an inherent trait called skill in basketball. She's a "natural" and performs at a level above all the players who came before her. That, alone, is not self-inducement; it's who she is. To suggest that she must tone it down and don't excel so much above the others in competitive sports is ridiculous.

She has another inherent trait that she can't control -- she's white. She can't "tone" that down, either, nor should she.

If Smith is suggesting that her mere presence on the court invites the reactions against her, I have a diner stool in Selma, Alabama to sell him.

-PJ

11 posted on 06/19/2025 3:37:20 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Trash talk has been part of professional basketball for many years. One of the reasons the WNBA has failed in it’s efforts to compete with the NBA is it’s lack of appearance of thugery. As basketball has lowered itself from a game of finesse and grace to muscle and violence, the women’s game was left behind. There were no dunking players, no muscling to the hoop, and no one to be the enforcer. That is changing. But while Clark was recently out for a week for an injury, the seats wee unfilled. The drama was not there so neither were the audiences watching the gladiators hit each other.

And the funny thing is the NBA players are defending her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0PiLE6SLwk

But it is very obvious that there is no covering it up when 17% of the flagrant fouls in the league are in her at 17%. That’s one player receiving almost 1/5 of all of them directed on her. So the women would rather attack their meal ticket? That ain’t bright. It’s just creating violence under the name of sport. Maybe not so good for primary education girls to see this? Don’t we have enough girl violence without making it a sport?

wy69


12 posted on 06/19/2025 3:41:22 PM PDT by whitney69
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I don’t need to state anything except this chick is a Black Belt in Taekwondo and she plays on the same team as Caitlin.
Parental discretion is advised.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SJVgXJnXBFY


13 posted on 06/19/2025 3:45:52 PM PDT by kawhill ("I'm ready to be done with this. You'll never be done with it son. It will always haunt you.")
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All you need to know about this is by answering this question.

Would these same women act like this if Clark was black?

14 posted on 06/19/2025 4:08:42 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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Awesome!!!


15 posted on 06/19/2025 4:10:01 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: MinorityRepublican

It is her own damned fault for being better than the rest and for bringing more money to the league than anyone else could.


16 posted on 06/19/2025 4:12:20 PM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe | -)
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‘ All you need to know about this is by answering this question.
Would these same women act like this if Clark was black?’

Would FR be talking about Clark if she were black?


17 posted on 06/19/2025 4:14:09 PM PDT by Fuzz
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No, because there wouldn’t be the animosity - or the high tv ratings.

The NBA would still be subsidizing the WNBA to keep it from folding.


18 posted on 06/19/2025 4:28:14 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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Yeah. You surely nailed it.

Lol.


19 posted on 06/19/2025 4:30:51 PM PDT by Fuzz
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“ She gives almost as much as she gets sometimes.”

They attack her, she plays defense then lights them up for 35.


20 posted on 06/19/2025 4:32:03 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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