{"id":20038,"date":"2025-07-18T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20038\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:37:09","slug":"sarah-spain-nancy-armour-blame-caitlin-clark-for-not-ending-beef-with-angel-reese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20038\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Spain, Nancy Armour Blame Caitlin Clark For Not Ending Beef With Angel Reese"},"content":{"rendered":"

They wish Clark had used her WNBA All-Star platform to squash thoughts of the players’ distaste for each other<\/p>\n

PublishedJuly 18, 2025 6:17 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedJuly 18, 2025 6:17 PM EDT<\/p>\n

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What do you get when former ESPN analyst Sarah Spain and USA Today columnist Nancy Armour get together on a podcast? Nonsense, that\u2019s what.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Spain released an episode of her “Good Game” podcast with Armour, in which part of their discussion involved tomorrow night\u2019s WNBA All-Star Game. Specifically, they analyzed how\u00a0Caitlin Clark decided not to draft Angel Reese<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read: ESPN Analyst Moronically Calls Caitlin Clark A ‘Villain’ Immediately After She Wins ESPY For WNBA Best Player<\/a><\/p>\n

Spain dovetailed this fact into a way that accused Clark\u2019s fans of being racist, a common narrative used against supporters of the Indiana Fever guard. The host claimed that had Clark drafted Reese, it would have somehow tempered their racist tendencies (a weird solution to a problem that doesn\u2019t exist, but I digress).<\/p>\n

Armour jumped on this narrative and said Clark\u2019s decision makes her at fault for not quieting the narrative that WNBA players are “catfighting” and remaining jealous of her.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a missed opportunity. It\u2019s an All-Star game; no one takes these things seriously. Angel and Cailin can say all they want: \u2018We’re fine, we have no beef.\u2019 I think it could have quieted some people or made them rethink some of the animosity they have towards Angel or other players. I think it would have been helpful if they were on the same team,” Armour said.<\/p>\n

Man, Clark just can\u2019t catch a break.<\/p>\n

Whether Spain and Armour like it or not, Reese has done many things in her young WNBA career to show that she strongly dislikes Clark. That\u2019s not something fans have fabricated, it’s something these two women choose to ignore.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese (Photo by Emilee Chinn\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Furthermore, being on an All-Star team isn\u2019t going to change anything in their relationship. After all, the animosity has remained even after Clark and Reese were on\u00a0the same All-Star squad in 2024<\/a>. And if no one is going to take this matchup seriously (like Armour said), then who would view any on-court pleasantries as anything substantial?<\/p>\n

Spain and Armour did exactly what so many other media members have done over the past two years: put the burden on Clark to fix the problem that she\u2019s a victim of. The WNBA\u2019s biggest, most-talented, and most-drama-free player continues to get harassed by wackjobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They wish Clark had used her WNBA All-Star platform to squash thoughts of the players’ distaste for each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}