{"id":827725,"date":"2026-07-26T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:16:09","slug":"wnba-media-slammed-over-handling-of-caitlin-clark-firestorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827725\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA, media slammed over handling of Caitlin Clark firestorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\u2018Don\u2019t @ Me with Dan Dakich\u2019 host Dan Dakich breaks down the WNBA and the media\u2019s alleged mistreatment of star player Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">OutKick host Dan Dakich criticizes the WNBA and media for mishandling star Caitlin Clark, arguing the league, after 30 years, fails to capitalize on her popularity. He cites &#8216;petty jealousies, racism, and sexism&#8217; as reasons for negative narratives and limited support for the 24-year-old athlete. Dakich suggests this impacts both Clark and the sport&#8217;s potential growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t @ Me with Dan Dakich\u2019 host Dan Dakich breaks down the WNBA and the media\u2019s alleged mistreatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827726,"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-827725","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\/827725","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=827725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}