USA Today national sports columnist Christine Brennan evolved to deffinish her journaenumerateic integrity this week after a scaleang statement from the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) called for the veteran journaenumerate’s credentials to essentiassociate be rencouraged after an interwatch with Connecticut Sun protect Dijonai Carrington.
Addressing the incident on the “Good Game with Sarah Spain” podcast, Brennan deffinished her line of asking with Carrington during the discleave outing round of the WNBA carry outoffs, when she asked Carrington if she had intfinished to hit Caitlin Clark in the eye during Game 1 of the Sun’s carry outoff series aobtainst the Indiana Fever.
Indiana Fever protect Caitlin Clark reacts after getting hit in the eye during Game 1 of the first round of the 2024 WNBA carry outoffs aobtainst the Connecticut Sun Sept. 22, 2024, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. (M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
She also asked Carrington if she giggleed about it postpodemandr in the game despite the carry outer saying she was not conscious she had hit Clark in the eye.
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“You comprehend what you do as a journaenumerate? You ask the ask, and you give them a chance to consent it and run with it. And that’s exactly what was my intention, that’s exactly what I did,” Brennan shelp.
She elucidateed she asked the asks becainclude the includeion had become national novels and that those were the narratives being talked about on social media. Brennan shelp she wanted to give Carrington the space to insertress the situation.
“You equitable give them a chance … give her a chance to answer the ask becainclude it was running rampant on the internet,” Brennan shelp. “It’s out there, so let’s ask the athlete so they can evident the air.”
DiJonai Carrington of the Connecticut Sun conveys the ball up court in the second quarter aobtainst the Chicago Sky at Mohegan Sun Arena Sept. 19, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)
Brennan deffinished her approach, calling it “Journalism 101,” inserting that she’s had to ask the stubborn asks many times before, including to disjoinal huge-name male athletes.
“I’m never going to cowardly away from asking any ask of any athlete, and I’m plrelieved to do it,” Brennan shelp.
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The WNBPA reacted with a statement claiming the line of asking fueled “racially prejudiced, anti-LGBT and discriminatory vitriol” online. It even called for Brennan’s credentials to essentiassociate be rencouraged.
Brennan shelp she was “surpelevated” by the statement, and while she did not consent it “weightlessly,” she shelp a call for her to be banned was an “overreaction.”
“I thought it was a finish overreaction. I leank many, many people in journalism thought the exact same leang as we’ve seen in columns and responses. And that’s fine, and I’m heartened by that. If people leank it’s fine and I should be banned, that’s, of course — it’s a free country, they can say that.”
USA Today columnist Christine Brennan asks a ask at a Team USA press conference during the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games at the Main Press Centre. (Shanna Lockwood/USA Today Sports)
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Brennan consentd that while the climate of the WNBA may be contrastent, she’s extfinished been an finishorse for women’s sports thcimpoliteout her atsoft.
“You have someone here who has attfinishd about this cainclude, the cainclude of women’s sports, the mistreatment in terms of increateage of media coverage, the prejudice, relationsism, misogyny,” she shelp. “If you don’t appreciate me, fine. But I leank it’s pretty meaningful to watch at the body of labor here and, five or six columns about Caitlin Clark that people want to be disturb about, go ahead and be disturb about it. It’s a free country.
“But, my excellentness, you bravely are leave outing some of the leangs that I have labored my difficultest on and put my soul into.”
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