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Chris Broussard: The Coddling of Caitlin Clark is 'Racist', Not Hard Fouls
By Wil Leitner,
2024-06-06
Photo: Luke Hales
Watch Chris Broussard of Fox Sports Radio’s The Odd Couple call out the Chicago Tribune for running an editorial ripping the WNBA for falling to protect Caitlin Clark amongst ‘ racially tinged animosity’ , as Broussard pushes back saying the incessant coddling of Clark is actually where the ‘racism’ is occurring.
Check out the segment below as Broussard details why the perceived punishment Clark is taking is just a ‘welcome to the league’ moment that all superstar rookies must overcome to become the all-time greats that they’re meant to become.
Chicago Tribune: ‘The foul committed by Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter was egregious. Outside of a sporting contest it would have been seen as an assault. Even within a sporting context it was bad. Caitlin Clark has to compete on her own merits but basketball has rules, and if the WNBA chews her up and spits her out because it is too afraid of being called ‘racist’ to protect her from a racially tinged animosity, or from fouls such as the one Carter committed, it will have done a huge disservice to its own game.”
Chris Broussard: “I’m trashing The Chicago Tribune ... That’s WEAK. It would have been ‘assault’ away from a basketball court?? What fouls WOULDN’T be an assault? C’mon man. There has been a lot of talk saying that Caitlin Clark is getting all this attention because she’s White, because it’s ‘racism’... I haven’t seen it that way. Diana Taurasi is White, Breanna Stewart is White, Sue Bird, Sabrina Ionescu – a lot of WNBA and college stars in female basketball have been White, and none of them were championed like Caitlin Clark. I think it’s the way she plays – like Steph Curry – logo threes, the ball-handling, great passing, vision, all that stuff.
But there HAVE been some instances of 'racism'... One of them when Iowa was invited to the White House even though they lost to LSU! All of the sudden, the first time you’re going to invite the runner-up to the White House it just happens to be a virtually all White team led by a White star?? I think that was racism, and I think this column, is written like Caitlin Clark is some princess who finds herself lost in a jungle, and ‘OH, MY! YOU BETTER PROTECT HER!’... ‘THESE WILD THINGS THAT ARE GOING AFTER HER!!...’ That’s how it read. SHAME ON THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE . That was ridiculous and to me THAT was racist. Angel Reese is getting hammered too, and I haven’t seen them write about her.
She’s getting physical play, but some of that is 'you’re just a rookie', and she’s not the only one. We’re focusing on her because of her stardom, but a lot of them are getting that. I just think that was ridiculous what The Chicago Tribune did.”
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