{"id":762973,"date":"2026-06-26T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:19:08","slug":"caitlin-clark-hit-in-throat-during-wnba-loose-ball-scramble-sparking-backlash-and-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762973\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark hit in throat during WNBA loose-ball scramble, sparking backlash and game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark is hit in the throat during a loose-ball scramble, sparking outrage and a one-game suspension for Alyssa Thomas. Fox News&#8217; Garrett Tenney reports from Chicago on the incident and coach&#8217;s reaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark was hit in the throat during a loose-ball scramble, sparking outrage and a one-game suspension for Alyssa Thomas. Fox News&#8217; Garrett Tenney reports on the &#8216;absolutely unacceptable&#8217; incident and the coach&#8217;s reaction. Political analyst Gianno Caldwell discusses Clark&#8217;s immense impact on WNBA viewership, including a $2.2 billion deal, and the role of gender and race in the controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark is hit in the throat during a loose-ball scramble, sparking outrage and a one-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[261501,49,48,24558,92296,82,1062,630],"class_list":["post-762973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-sports","tag-video","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}