Angel Reese already showing broadcasting aspirations
"We have a seat for you. Don't worry about that."
"We have a seat for you. Don't worry about that."
"What an odd thing to say."
"I do not believe there is any one way to think about things."
Taylor Rooks slammed Emmanuel Acho for intentionally ignoring racism/sexism in criticism of LSU's Angel Reese.
The 6.2 million average viewers for the Elite 8 marked a 184% increase over 2023.
"If she was some suburban Black girl who was acting differently, I don't know if people would be on her as much."
"She didn’t do this to some other little white girls that were over in Colorado or wherever. She did it to some girls from LSU who we thought were some dogs!"
"All this has happened since I won the National Championship and I haven't been happy since then."
"You can't show up in this rematch and stick up the joint. Caitlin Clark has to show up and has to play at an elite level."
"At the end of the day, I'm rocking with them cause they don't change who they are. So I'll have their back."
The rematch of last year's NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship Game between LSU and Iowa is on ESPN and then stay tuned UConn vs. USC right afterwards.
While everyone has their rightful attention on Caitlin Clark, the Women's NCAA Tournament is seeing increases in ratings everywhere else too.
Campfire Film & TV is paying LSU around $1 million for documentary rights, with some of that going to featured athletes as "NIL compensation."
LSU and several of the school's high-earning athletes will be featured in a doc about NIL.
The Angel Reese situation at LSU is a mystery, but reckless speculation is only making it worse for everybody involved.
"You're not entitled to that information."
"The pair will weigh in and comment on the first round picks and discuss their championship run, along with all the fanfare and conversation it drove in the days following."
"In the history of sports, when you lose, you take your ass home. But then white girls lose, and suddenly it's All Teams Matter."
"Let’s bring poor Caitlin’s white Iowa team to the White House and celebrate them too...It came across, to me, as this unintentional, unwitting, sort of naïve white racism."
"Did you forget who helped put your husband in the White House? You’re gonna find out a very hard lesson in ’24."
It was an apology, just not one that people will be pleased with.
The reactions to Reese's gesture says a lot about the sports media world.