Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy criticizes an op-ed for evaluating Caitlin Clark’s and Emmett Until, calling it ‘insane.’ He argues the WNBA consistently makes the whole lot about race, exacerbating racial tensions.
Dave Portnoy known as for the firing of a USA As we speak columnist who in contrast WNBA star Caitlin Clark to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Until, arguing the author belongs in an “insane asylum” for the piece.
Talking on “Varney & Co.,” the Barstool Sports activities founder ripped into columnist Nancy Armour, declaring her comparability between Indiana Fever star Clark and the homicide of Black teen Emmett Until the “craziest factor” he’s seen in additional than twenty years of sports activities media.
“We have got to place her in a straightjacket. You have to discover the closest establishment. You have gotta put this creator away and throw away the important thing,” Portnoy stated Friday.
“Firing is not actually far sufficient. You gotta put her in an insane asylum. You gotta lock her up. And individuals who say, ‘Hey, Dave, that is too far’ — that is nothing in comparison with what she simply wrote,” he later added.
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Armour wrote that a few of Clark’s supporters have interpreted her disputes with referees as a White lady who wants safety, then taken it out on different gamers on the court docket. Clark has been a frequent subject of debate after going through bodily play throughout video games.
The creator wrote that there’s a “White nationalist ingredient” to the dispute, and later added that, “it shouldn’t want reminding this nation has an terrible historical past of Black individuals being harmed, even killed, within the identify of ‘defending’ white girls.”
The author then stated the WNBA’s All-Star Sport was being held in Chicago, the place Emmett Until lived. Emmett Until was a 14-year-old Black boy who was kidnapped and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after a White lady accused him of constructing advances towards her. The tragedy turned a serious catalyst for the trendy civil rights motion.
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Dave Portnoy attends “Dave Portnoy in Dialog With Erika Ayers Badan: Cancel Me If You Can” at 92NY on June 29 in New York Metropolis. (Theo Wargo/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
“I have been doing Barstool 24 years. I am 49 years outdated. That is the craziest factor I’ve ever seen in my life. Absolutely the craziest factor. To one way or the other equate the civil rights motion and Caitlin Clark arguing whether or not she bought fouled or not,” Portnoy stated. “It’s pure madness.”
Portnoy known as for the firing of not solely Armour, but additionally different members of the editorial workers concerned with the article.
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“I do assume she needs to be fired. I feel the editor who allowed this to be revealed needs to be fired,” he stated, later including that not each story needs to be anchored round racial disputes.
“For those who go in search of race underneath each single clean, each cowl, you may make something about race,” Portnoy stated.
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Armour apologized for making the connection in her article in an announcement posted Thursday on social media: “In my current column, I made an inartful comparability with the homicide of Emmett Until. I meant to attach the problems the WNBA is at present going through with its All-Star Sport being hosted in Until’s hometown of Chicago,” she stated, including, “I clearly didn’t present sufficient context for that.”
Armour additionally famous that she stands by the assertion that perceived threats towards White girls are weaponized in opposition to Black Individuals however added that she sincerely regrets that her “lack of acceptable context is overshadowing that essential dialog and the motion that must be taken by the WNBA to deal with it straight — for the advantage of all gamers.”
Dave Portnoy discusses the USA As we speak column evaluating Caitlin Clark to Emmett Until, calling for the reporter’s firing. He additionally criticizes NYC Mayor Mamdani’s stance on Israel and rising antisemitism, and weighs in on WNBA trans athlete controversy.
