Gregg Doyel of The Indianapolis Star apologized on Wednesday evening for his “clumsy and awkward” interplay with Caitlin Clark in the course of the Indiana Fever rookie’s introductory information convention.
The sports activities columnist then printed a chunk apologizing on to the No. 1 total decide for being “a part of the issue” on Wednesday.
“I’m devastated to appreciate I’m a part of the issue. I screwed up Wednesday throughout my first interplay with No. 1 total draft decide Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever,” Doyel wrote. “What occurred was probably the most me factor ever, in a technique. I’m form of recognized domestically, sigh, for having awkward conversations with folks earlier than asking brashly conversational questions. I’ve finished this for years with Colts coaches Chuck Pagano, Frank Reich and Shane Steichen. I’ve finished it with Purdue gamers Carsen Edwards and Zach Edey. I did it with IU’s Romeo Langford, speaking to them as folks, not athletes.”
He identified that the entire names he listed had been males and that “on the one hand, sure completely, female and male athletes ought to be handled the identical,” in regard to “protection, respect, compensation, terminology, you title it.”
Doyel wrote that he is realized that he must be “extra aware of how (he talks) to folks — not simply athletes.”
“In my haste to be intelligent, to be acquainted and welcoming (or so I believed), I offended Caitlin and her household,” he wrote. “After going by means of denial, after which anger — I’m on the fallacious aspect of this? Me??? — I now notice what I mentioned and the way I mentioned it was fallacious, fallacious, fallacious. I imply it was simply fallacious. Caitlin Clark, I’m so sorry.”
With Clark and different uber-talented rookies becoming a member of the WNBA in 2024, reputation surrounding ladies’s basketball is on the rise. Hopefully there will not be many extra cringeworthy moments like what occurred on Wednesday to overshadow what ought to be a celebratory event for the game.
