A USA Immediately columnist is getting help from one in every of her colleagues after the Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Gamers’ Affiliation issued a scathing assertion about her.
Final week, the WNBPA referred to as out Christine Brennan, saying she fueled “racist, homophobic and misogynistic vitriol” on-line following an interview with Connecticut Solar guard Dijonai Carrington.
Brennan requested Carrington if she meant to hit Caitlin Clark within the eye throughout a playoff sequence after which requested if she was laughing about it afterward.
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Keith Olbermann speaks through the ESPN portion of the Summer time Tv Critics Affiliation tour on July 24, 2013, in Beverly Hills, California. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Photographs)
Carrington, 26, shared a screenshot of an offensive electronic mail she obtained on her social media previous to Recreation 2 of the Solar’s first-round playoff sequence in opposition to the Indiana Fever. The e-mail directed a racial slur and threats at Carrington.Â
“To unprofessional members of the media like Christine Brennan: You aren’t fooling anybody. That so-called interview within the identify of journalism was a blatant try and bait knowledgeable athlete into taking part in a story that’s false and designed to gasoline racist, homophobic, and misogynistic vitriol on social media. You can’t cover behind your tenure,” the affiliation mentioned in its assertion.
That assertion was a foul transfer by the affiliation, former ESPN host Keith Olbermann mentioned.
“Congratulations. You have simply attacked one of many girls who paved the best way to make a WNBA doable,” Olbermann wrote in an X publish.Â
USA Immediately columnist Christine Brennan asks a query at a Crew USA press convention through the 2018 Olympic Winter Video games. (Shanna Lockwood-USA Immediately Sports activities)
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“In case you suppose [Brennan] has any agenda in addition to supporting and protecting girls’s sports activities, you need to shut your union and droop WNBA play till you learn in on what SHE fought to get the place she is. The ‘unprofessional’ ones listed below are the leaders of your group. You owe Chris Brennan an unreserved apology for slandering her.”
Brennan thanked Olbermann in her personal publish.
The assertion went on to accuse Brennan of “abus[ing] your privileges,” including she does “not deserve the credentials issued to you.” The union additionally referred to as on USA Immediately to take motion.Â
DiJonai Carrington of the Solar dribbles the ball in opposition to the Indiana Fever through the WNBA Playoffs on Sept, 25, 2024, on the Mohegan Solar Enviornment in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE by way of Getty Photographs)
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USA Immediately additionally defended its worker.
“Journalists ask questions and search reality. At USA Immediately, our mission is to report in an unbiased method,” the corporate wrote. “We reject the notion that the interview perpetuated any narrative aside from to get the participant’s perspective immediately. Christine Brennan is effectively thought to be an advocate for girls and athletes, however firstly, she’s a journalist.”
Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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