The NHL draft is days away and free agency begins on July 1.
ESPN reporters @emilymkaplan, @kristen_shilton and @wyshynski have made calls around the league for the latest buzz on what the next big moves are on the horizon. https://t.co/vNdnZtBDvt
«L’Ucraina sta riportando la guerra in Russia. Abbiamo colpito una raffineria nella regione di Tiumen, a 2 mila chilometri dal nostro confine. Abbiamo utilizzato droni con un raggio di volo di 2.500 km. Presto voleremo oltre i 3 mila chilometri, sappiamo esattamente dove si trovano tutti gli impianti militari russi, le basi petrolifere, le strutture di stoccaggio del gas. Il numero dei nostri colpi in profondità in Russia aumenterà ogni giorno». (Volodymyr Zelensky)
Vannacci: "Se accettiamo il reato di femminicidio allora va introdotto l'immigraticidio". Il leader di Futuro Nazionale commenta il 5,9% per il suo partito raggiunto nei sondaggi: "Non festeggiamo, è solo l'inizio". #ANSA https://t.co/79EWvlX71g
Mark Carney — aka Mr. Darkside — bringing his signature lack of rhythm to Mr. Brightside...
Suffocated by a tight World Cup jersey, completely off-beat, and deeply painful to watch.
Simone Tebet desmonta a falsa defesa da família pela extrema direita e manda a real: “Ninguém faz mais pela família do que o governo Lula e o Haddad, como ministro da Fazenda.”
Tebet destacou a importância do Minha Casa, Minha Vida para que mães possam ter um lar e seus filhos, um lugar digno para viver. 👏🏾
I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:
Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.
Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.
It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.
And that is insane.
This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.
She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.
No.
Her attitude is not the story.
The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.
This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”
That is what this looks like.
The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.
And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.
Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.
You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.
Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.
Fans are not stupid.
They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:
Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.
At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:
How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?
Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.
It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.
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Exciting developments in Ras Laffan are making waves in the energy sector! The growth and innovation happening there are truly impressive. Can't wait to see how it shapes the future of energy. #RasLaffan
Just caught a segment on Charles Barkley discussing the latest NBA playoffs. His insights are always on point! No one breaks it down quite like Charles Barkley. What's your favorite Barkley moment?
This American soldier just showed off her steak and lobster meal that was provided to her thanks to the DOWs $22 million spending that has pissed off liberals across the nation.
So well deserved. Our military puts their life on the line for us and they are so deserving of this.
People that hate our military are out to lose their minds!