They should all be fired. By “all,” I mean everyone involved with the rollout of Caitlin Clark’s WNBA career.NBA commissioner Adam Silver. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert. Indiana Fever head coach Christie Sides. Fever general manager Lin Dunn. Assistant GM Hillary Spears. Director of public relations Ryan Stevens. Team water boy Bobby Boucher Jr.Fire. All. Of. Them. They’re a group of amateurs unprepared to take advantage of and care for the greatest gift ever handed to women’s basketball and women’s sports. They’re the architects of the Fyre Festival of basketball, a summer hoops event built around showcasing Caitlin Clark’s mastery of the game. Just like the Billy McFarland and Ja Rule music event, this Fyre Festival is going up in flames. The people organizing it are frauds. Their collective incompetence has allowed the enemies of Clark to rattle her confidence, steal her joy, and distract her from the task of lifting the moribund league to profitability and relevance. The level of hostility directed at Clark and the constant conversation around her persona are problematic. She’s a young woman. She’s going to break. She’s already breaking. In my estimation, Thursday was a breaking point for Caitlin Clark. She realized she can’t extricate herself from the racial, sexual identity, and social justice quicksand the WNBA and corporate media pour at the feet of the league’s players. Thursday afternoon, before the Fever played the Atlanta Dream, reporters asked Clark a series of questions about people allegedly “weaponizing her name for racism and misogyny.” Clark eventually bent her knee. “I think everybody in our world deserves the same amount of respect,” she said. “The women in our league deserve the same amount of respect. So, people should not be using my name to push agendas. It’s disappointing. It’s not acceptable. ... This is a league I grew up admiring and wanting to be a part of. Like some of the women of this league were my biggest idols and role models growing up and helped me want to achieve this moment right here I get to play in every single night.”The answer seems harmless. It isn’t. It puts Clark in the same crosshairs that made Tim Tebow’s NFL career unsustainable. It defines Clark’s fans as a problem, as a distraction that stands in the way of building a winning atmosphere. Obviously, Clark has more women’s professional basketball talent than Tebow had as an NFL quarterback. But men have thicker skin than women. The level of hostility directed at Clark and the constant conversation around her persona are more problematic. She’s a woman, a young one. She’s going to break. She’s already breaking. Thursday night, in a victory over the Dream, she scored just seven points and turned the ball over seven times. In her last four games, she’s made just 15 of her last 44 shots. She’s averaging 12 points over the same stretch. Why do I blame Silver, Engelbert, Sides, Dunn, and all the rest for Clark’s slide? They’ve done nothing to protect their potential superstar. Let’s just use Thursday as an example. Why is Caitlin Clark talking to the media before a game? Why? This is insanity. Given the toxic and divisive conversation corporate and social media have enveloped Clark in, there is no way she should be subjected to clickbait trolls disguised as journalists before playing a game. Clark is the biggest star in sports now. She should be handled the same way NFL teams treat franchise quarterbacks. Do you think Patrick Mahomes answers pregame questions from the alleged media? Mahomes almost never does locker room interviews. He talks at a podium with a PR staffer standing at the ready to shut down any stupidity. During the practice week, Mahomes is subjected to the media once in a highly controlled environment. No way Clark should be standing around the court engaging in a media scrum. It’s foolish. She’s 22, she’s clickbait, and the people who pass themselves off as journalists are agenda-driven activists.James Boyd, the reporter who asked Clark about her name being used for “racism and misogyny,” graduated from college in 2018. In the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, he’s been microwaved from one job advancement to the next. He works for the Athletic. He got that job after a nine-month stint covering the Pacers for the Indianapolis Star. He landed the Pacers job after a six-month stint covering the University of Illinois for the 9,000-circulation Herald and Review. Boyd’s proof that Clark’s name was being used for “racism and misogyny” was a tweet from a Connecticut Sun player who was upset that hours earlier Clark told the Athletic’s Jim Trotter that she couldn’t control how people use her name in the culture wars. “It’s not something I can control, so I don’t put too much thought and time into thinking about things like that,” Clark said. “And to be honest, I don’t see a lot of it. ... People can talk about what they want to talk about, create conversations about whatever it is ... I’m just here to play basketball.”That response, once posted on X, triggered DiJonai Carrington, a member of the Sun. She fired off a post complaining without using Clark’s name. “Dawg. How one can not [sic] be bothered by their name being used to justify racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia and the intersectionalities of them all is nuts. We all see the sh*t. We all have a platform. We all have a voice and they all hold weight. Silence is a luxury.”Are you following along?Trotter, a longtime NFL reporter who is suing the NFL for racism, asked Clark about the culture wars. Clark responded. Her response was posted on X. Carrington used the response to subtweet and attack Clark. Boyd used Carrington’s tweet to justify telling Clark that her name was being used for racism and misogyny.Trotter, Carrington, and Boyd are all black and very obsessed with race. Clark is white and very obsessed with basketball. Clark’s agenda is basketball. Trotter, Carrington, and Boyd share a race-centric agenda. Other so-called journalists quickly spun out stories that Clark denounced racists for using her name for their agenda. ESPN celebrated. Caitlin Clark likely searched for an aspirin to relieve a justifiable headache. She’s being used, and no one is protecting her. Everyone involved needs to be fired. Clark should step away from the WNBA. The league is going to destroy whatever is left of her happiness. It’s not worth it.

Marvette Perry, 36, tried to steal a couple's car earlier this month at a Florida gas station, police told WESH-TV. The victim said he parked at the Exxon station in Ormond Beach to use the restroom, but before he could exit his vehicle, Perry opened the door, pushed him out of the way, and got into the driver's seat, the station reported. 'I come from a small town in North Carolina where people help each other. I just couldn't sit there and watch that transpire in a different way.' But WESH said Adam McDaniels was visiting central Florida on the day of the incident, June 1, and just so happened to be getting gas at the station when he saw what was going down and made a beeline for Perry. "I got out with my firearm," McDaniels told the station. "I ran over, pointed my firearm with a laser at her chest, and told her not to reach for any weapons." WESH noted that McDaniels put his gun away when he realized Perry was unarmed, but he stayed close by. "As soon as she saw my laser on her chest, she stopped, became stone cold, didn't move or speak," McDaniels added to the station. "I tried to get her to get out of the car, but she didn't do anything until the cops got there." One of the victims — a 74-year-old man — held on to Perry's foot so she wouldn't take the car, WESH said, adding that the victim's wife was still sitting in the passenger seat. "I think she was a little worked up, but he seemed pretty calm. He held her by the ankle and said he wouldn't let go," McDaniels noted to the station. McDaniels told WESH he's glad he was able to intervene: "I come from a small town in North Carolina where people help each other. I just couldn't sit there and watch that transpire in a different way." Perry was being held at the Volusia County Jail with no bond, the station said. Image source: Volusia County (Fla.) Corrections According to WKMG-TV, Perry faces charges of carjacking, burglary with assault or battery, battery on a person 65 years of age or older, and resisting an officer without violence. You can view video of WESH's interview with McDaniels here. Below is police bodycam video of Perry's arrest: Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Dallas Mavericks have now lost three consecutive games to the Boston Celtics in the 2024 NBA finals. If Boston wins tonight, the hopes of an NBA championship, which hasn’t happened since 2011, are dashed for Mavs fans. NBA sports writer Brian Windhorst pointed at the Mav’s all-star point guard, Luka Dončić, as the reason the team has not prevailed against the Celtics. “His defensive performance is unacceptable. He is a hole on the court ... [The Celtics] are ahead in this series because they have attacked [Dončić] defensively,” Windhorst reported, adding that Dončić is also “costing the team because of how he treats the officials.” Windhorst even went as far as saying that Dončić is “the reason why the Mavericks are not going to win” the series. “There were some uncalled fouls in that game that could’ve gone Luka’s way,” says Blaze Media’s sports expert Jason Whitlock. However, he also acknowledges that the superstar is guilty of “flopping,” “[baiting the referees],” and “trying to draw all these fouls.” “Luka Dončić has an acute case of the flops,” he says, playing a clip of the athlete’s dramatic tumbles from the last game. Jay Skapinac, the voice behind Skap Attack agrees. “Luka came into the series with a lot of shine on him,” he tells Jason. “It looked like he was getting ready to insinuate himself into that best player in the world type conversation in my estimation.” However, in light of the last three games, “there is no denying that Luca has been absolutely pitiful throughout the course of this series.” What’s strange is that “many would take a look at just the raw box score and say 30 points per game, nine rebounds a game, six assists, two and a half steals, 47% and think what a great series this guy's playing.” According to Jay, however, Luka is “unmitigated trash whenever it matters most in the fourth quarters,” which is evidenced by the fact that he’s shot “three of 15 in the fourth quarters” of the last three matches and was “loafing up and down the court on defense.” “This guy is the European LeBron James,” he criticizes. To hear the rest of the conversation and predictions for tonight’s match, watch the clip below. Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Cru or Campus Crusade for Christ has been a well-known and respected organization in the Christian community for decades. But according to Allie Beth Stuckey and other conservative Christians, some of Cru’s curriculum “[contradicts] what the Bible says about human sexuality and the Christian obligation to speak truth.” One specific section of the curriculum, which “wasn’t supposed to publicly circulate, but it did,” has come under scrutiny for suggesting that “it is an okay position to use someone's preferred pronouns.” “If a man says that he wants to go by she, if you are doing so for the purpose of evangelism, [the curriculum] presented that as an option,” says Allie. It also suggested that “homosexual behavior may be disordered and sinful, but homosexual attraction is not necessarily sin.” “Of course I believe that both of those perspectives are wrong,” says Allie. “We are not going to win someone to Christ by lying to them, by deceiving them, and affirming a deception about who they are.” As for same-sex attraction being morally neutral, Allie says, “It’s not.” “We read in Romans 1 that the desire – homosexual attraction – is disordered,” she explains. But Allie isn’t the only one who’s taken issue with Cru’s gender and sexuality curriculum. Apparently some of Cru’s own staff members have voiced concerns as well. One couple employed by Cru did an interview with World magazine, during which they disclosed their opinions regarding Cru’s curriculum as it relates to gender and sexuality. However, two weeks after the story was published, Cru “terminated their employment,” citing the “sixth missionary vow of Cru, which says, ‘I pledge to work for the peace and the unity of Cru,’” as justification for termination. However, gender and sexuality aren't the only section of Cru’s curriculum that’s come under fire. People have also spoken out about “social and racial justice themes” in staff training material. To learn more, watch the clip below. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

In August 1969, actress Sharon Tate was gaining fame as a Hollywood star, happily married to director Roman Polanski, and eight-and-a-half months pregnant — when she was brutally murdered by the Manson Family. The post How Sharon Tate Went From A Hollywood Starlet To A Manson Family Murder Victim appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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