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IndyStar sports activities columnist Gregg Doyel “is not going to be masking the Indiana Fever,” an IndyStar spokesperson informed CNN in a press release Tuesday.
In April, Doyel had a cringeworthy alternate throughout Caitlin Clark’s introductory information convention as the most recent member of the WNBA group.
The IndyStar author made a coronary heart together with his arms to Clark, a gesture Clark usually used throughout her faculty basketball profession.
Clark responded, “You want that?” Doyel replied, “I like that you just’re right here,” and Clark defined, “Yeah, I do this at my household after each recreation.” Then Doyel added, “Begin doing it to me and we’ll get alongside simply wonderful.”
Doyel apologized later that very same day, stating on a submit on X, “My remark afterward was clumsy and awkward. I sincerely apologize.” He added in a separate post on X: “Caitlin Clark, I’m so sorry. In the present day I used to be a part of the issue,” a model of which was the title of his apology column that revealed within the IndyStar final month.
Gannett, the mum or dad firm of the IndyStar, didn’t reply to CNN’s inquiry on whether or not Doyel will cowl the group in any respect through the season.
CNN has reached out to Doyel for remark.
Doyel’s final article was revealed on April 29 on the Indianapolis Colts’ NFL draft.
Clark and the Fever tip off their twenty fifth common season subsequent Tuesday on the highway in opposition to the Connecticut Solar.