Posted on 09/29/2024 11:04:38 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
(NewsNation) — USA Today columnist Christine Brennan is the target of the WNBA Players’ Association over a question Brennan posed over the eye poke that rookie star Caitlin Clark suffered in a playoff game.
“USA Today Sports should explain why a reporter with clear bias and ulterior motives was assigned to cover the league,” said WNBA Players’ Association executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson in a statement, which also called on USA Today to discipline Brennan.
At issue are the questions Brennan posed to Connecticut Sun player DiJonai Carrington the day after Carrington gave Clark a black eye during the first playoff game between the Sun and Clark’s Indiana Fever.
“Did you intend to hit her in the eye,” Brennan asked Carrington.
“I don’t even know why I would intend to hit anybody in the eye. That doesn’t even make sense to me,” Carrington responded. “I didn’t know I hit her. I was trying to make a play on the ball, and I guess I followed through and hit her. Obviously, it’s never intentional, that’s not even the type of player I am,” she added.
Jackson’s statement blasted Brennan in very personal language.
“That so-called interview in the name of journalism was a blatant attempt to bait a professional athlete into participating in a narrative that is false and designed to fuel racist, homophobic, and misogynistic vitriol on social media,” Jackson said.
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Why would any sane person watch this gaggle of misfits play anything?
Yeah. CC is too good for the WNBA (even if she supports Kamala Harris).
Anyway, the best thing she should do is to play in Europe for a couple of years. Or Israel. She is popular so she'll sell out wherever she goes.
Then she can retire and coach at Iowa.
Zuckerberg admitted that he was manipulated into doing whatever the Deep State wanted him to do during the election in 2020 and that he should have done more to push back.
So Zuck was young and naive. Apparently, he is older and wiser. Especially after realizing that Musk has balls and is actually advocating for free speech at X.
WNBA is useless, classless, worthless
I’ve read that any highly ranked men’s high school team in the country could beat their best team.
Here is what Caitlin Clark said. She didn’t endorse anyone. She wrote “I like that”. Three words. Give me the name of a better all-around basketball player in the world right now. If I’m Fever management/ownership I couldn’t care less about the political leanings of a 22 year old. The only thing I care about is that she shows up for work and plays basketball for me, because when she does 18,000 people pay as much as $1,000 a ticket to watch her play. As a business owner in a couple of years I will be able to afford to purchase a few acres in Indy and build a gym that seats 40,000. Kaching! Taylor has one vote, Caitlin has one vote, you and I have one vote. A constitutional republic. Besides Caitlin is tired of being beat up in the W and she’s going to become a professional golfer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EWIahpPzNpA
Romantic relationships, my a…. zzzzz… Flowers, champagne, walks under the moon, first kiss, and on, and on and on.
The truth is this one can’t stand a white girl getting any attention in the wnba.
I was trying to be kind in my description, LOL, militant lesbians can do all the things you listed, or they can buy up a large supply of D-Cell Batteries
Why exactly does it “need to be answered”?
The whole WNBA is just plain weird
Is there anything?... ANYTHING they can do without bringing racism into it?
Blacks are so utterly racist these days it makes me sick.
“I didn’t know I hit her.”
That statement alone tells me that woman is not credible. She knew she had hit something soft; like eye tissue.
And those claws on the end of her arms are designed to send a menacing signal to the other team. What next: brass knuckles?
And what exactly is a “closed spear point to the eye”?
This is not about Caitlyn Clarke. This is about stoking a narrative that doesn’t exist. Give it a rest.
If Clark had watched this informative video https://youtu.be/R-M6FsWhDqI?si=bQlG7Ij3ju-g-uZM she would have known how to block the eye poke
and my question always is
where are her teammates?
For a none contact sport Caitlin sure does seem to get a lot of injuries.
Just noticing.
Because it could be criminal assault.
“And what exactly is a “closed spear point to the eye”?”
If you watch the vids Jackson had her fingers widespread as if swatting at the ball, but she continued on she brought all her finger tips together in a point for the eye poke.
Yup, seems to be abnormal and blatant contacts. The offenders don’t realized they’re cutting off their noses to spite their face. Increased attendance and viewership mean more money being made and could be available for increased pay.
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