Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas Issued Flagrant Foul, Suspended For One Game For Hitting Caitlin Clark in the Throat
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During Wednesday night’s game in Indianapolis, Mercury player Alyssa Thomas was caught on film delivering a cheap shot to Caitlin Clark while she was on the ground fighting for the ball.
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Just hours after The Gateway Pundit reported the latest brutal targeting of WNBA savior Caitlin Clark, the Phoenix Mercury organization posted a classless cartoon mocking her on their official social media.
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The tension in the Women's National Basketball Association is boiling over as star player Caitlin Clark continues to take what many commentators are describing as targeted abuse.The Indiana Fever guard has been increasingly critical of the WNBA's officiating while opposing teams have continued their physical play against her.'She is not being treated with any sort of respect.'Clark recently complained about getting "a technical [foul] for clapping" (again), and added, "We should all just go on the calendar now and pick a game that I'm going to be suspended for if I'm going to get technicals for clapping."While the 24-year-old's "emotion" and "passion"-fueled play may contribute to her rough treatment, the league seems ready to explode over recent incidents with her involving physical altercations.On Monday, Clark narrowly avoided an elbow to the face from Phoenix Mercury player Alyssa Thomas, which resulted in a review in which officials still found Clark guilty of a foul.Then again on Wednesday against the Mercury, things took a turn when Thomas seemingly pushed her fist into Clark's throat while she was on the ground, but no foul was called during the game. This — and another incident that reportedly injured Clark's back and resulted in a foul for the Mercury — seemed to be the final straw and set off a firestorm in the league, starting with Clark's coach, Stephanie White."The fist in the throat is crazy," White said after the game. "It's crazy. It's dangerous.""We have a generational talent and a WNBA superstar who had two cheap shots right there that weren't called. And I just say again, absolutely unacceptable," the coach yelled.RELATED: Jason Whitlock: Nike and the WNBA fumbled the Caitlin Clark phenomenon - YouTube Sports media broadcasters did not bite their tongue after the fouls, either.Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy shared a clip of the dangerous foul and asked, "What are we even doing here?""Brutal cheap shot. These women would still be flying commercial without Caitlin and this is how she is treated. Insane," Portnoy said, referring to the WNBA players getting chartered flights in 2024, Clark's first season in the league.Former NFL MVP Boomer Esiason said after the foul that Clark should "seriously consider" going to play in a different league. Esiason claimed she would get "the royal treatment" if she went elsewhere."I think that there's a petty, petty jealousy, and she's a straight white basketball player. And she is not being treated with any sort of respect," Esiason added.RELATED: 'Just follow the money': NFL doctor reveals why so many players are getting injured - YouTube At the same time, legendary Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd accused the WNBA of "driving into a wall at full speed with Caitlin Clark."Cowherd pointed out that a brand-new poster put out by the league commemorating 30 years of history did not include Clark on it. The poster featured Angel Reese, who came into the league the same year as Clark, as well as Paige Bueckers, a rookie.On Thursday afternoon, the WNBA announced it was giving Thomas a flagrant foul 2 for making contact with Clark's throat, ESPN reported. This came with a one-game suspension.Despite praising the league and its diversity in 2024, Clark has continued to be snubbed by women's basketball. She was even passed for the women's USA basketball roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics.Clark also only finished fourth in MVP voting for the WNBA in 2024.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
President Donald Trump torpedoed his own Republican Party's moment this week by abruptly canceling the signing of a major housing bill that could have boosted the GOP ahead of midterms, The New York Times reported Thursday.Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, revealed that the growing ruptures between Trump and Republicans "have crippled the G.O.P. at what should be the peak of its power." Trump instead signaled he would not sign the bill until Republicans passed his elections legislation, the SAVE America Act."Just as Republicans were pointing to the measure as proof that they could deliver big things with their majority, President Trump scuttled his party’s big moment by disparaging the legislation and refusing to sign it unless he got a new bill to impose voting restrictions," Hulse wrote."It was just the latest twist in an increasingly tortured relationship between Mr. Trump and his fellow Republicans, who were left dumbfounded and wondering if, for some reason, the president was trying to sabotage their chances in November and cost them their majorities," Hulse explained. "And it reflected how profoundly Mr. Trump had crippled his once vaunted governing trifecta, now all but paralyzed by his whipsawing demands and pronouncements."Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) commented on the moment."It’s utterly amazing," Schumer said. "Trump is running away from one of the very few accomplishments that could actually help the American people."Trump could still sign the housing legislation, Hulse added. But the repercussions could remain for GOP lawmakers, who were frustrated over the bill and left Washington, D.C. They will return in mid-July, "leaving multiple consequential matters hanging." "Mr. Trump may yet sign the legislation or allow it to become law, but he has already significantly diminished its political impact by dismissing it as minor, questioning its benefits and ditching the signing ceremony," Hulse wrote.
A bitter clash among Supreme Court justices came into view Thursday through a pair of immigration rulings, in which Justice Samuel Alito accused his liberal colleagues of blindsiding him.The friction emerged when Alito announced the court's decision in an asylum case, adopting a narrow interpretation of what it means for a migrant to have "arrived" in the United States under federal law — a reading that makes it significantly harder for asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico and South America to qualify unless they physically set foot on U.S. soil, reported CNN's Joan Biskupic."The tension really hit a climax, and it came when Justice Samuel Alito read three different opinions from the bench, the first one fairly routine, but the second two having to do with immigration and refugee rights," Biskupic reported from outside the court. "What happened in the courtroom showed not just the division but the anger between the two sides, and Justice Alito, right there from the bench, accused his liberal colleague, Sonia Sotomayor of blindsiding him, in effect, when she started to read her dissent from the bench.""Typically, it's the justice who is reading the majority opinion who's the only one who speaks," she added. "If somebody reads a dissent in this case, from the liberals really protesting what has happened in this refugee case."Over roughly 10 minutes, Sotomayor invoked the 1939 voyage of more than 900 Jewish refugees turned away from Cuba and the United States, most of whom later perished in the Holocaust, and tied that history to international treaties protecting people fleeing persecution. She argued the ruling betrayed that legacy and detailed the violence and extortion facing migrants stranded near the border. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined her."Then Justice Alito, who's going to read another opinion, he stops and he says, 'If I had known that the dissent was going to deliver that opinion from the bench, I would have said more, I would have said more about why we ruled the way we did,'" Biskupic said. "It was a very bitter response to what we had just heard."Alito then pressed forward, announcing a second 6-3 ruling restricting the federal government's use of Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Haiti and Syria — another significant win for the administration.The TPS decision could have immediate consequences for refugees who have lived in the U.S. legally for months or years. Biskupic said whether individuals can now be removed depends on their specific status and where they stood in the application process, but the ruling clears a path for the administration to revoke protections it has long sought to end. - YouTube youtu.be
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