BREAKING NEWS Caitlin Clark speaks out on dramatic Angel Reese bust-up after shoving rival to floor in WNBA opener
Caitlin Clark insists her shove on Angel Reese was nothing more than a basketball play and by no means 'malicious' after the two WNBA rivals were involved in a furious spat on the court.
During a fiery season opener between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky, Clark slapped the Sky forward across the arm after she grabbed an offensive rebound, sending her tumbling to the floor midway through the third quarter.
Reese was left incensed by the push, leaping back to her feet and making a beeline for the Fever star before her teammates intervened.
Following a replay review, the referees upgraded Clark's foul to a flagrant one much to her astonishment.
Caitlin Clark throwing SHADE at Angel Reese LMFAOOO
'It's just a good take foul. Either Angel gets wide open 2 points or we send them to the free throw line. Nothing malicious about it…EVERY BASKETBALL PLAYER LNOWS THAT'
😂😂😂
pic.twitter.com/YweWIYiYr0
— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) May 17, 2025
During an in-game interview with ESPN, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year stressed that she was simply doing what every basketball player would do in the same situation.
'It's just a good take foul,' Clark said. 'You know, either Angel gets a wide open two points, or we send them to the free-throw line.
'Nothing malicious about it. It's just a good take foul. Every basketball player knows that.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Sun
18 minutes ago
- The Sun
Sofia Vergara, 52, goes topless as she tans in thong bikini by the pool
SOFIA Vergara sent her fans into meltdown with her latest topless selfie, as she topped up her tan by the pool. The America's Got Talent judge, 52, stripped off and bared her peachy bottom in a sizzling new snap. 4 4 4 Sofia looked incredible in her selfie, which saw her lounge by an idyllic pool. The stunning Modern Family star was completely nude apart from a pair of skimpy bikini bottoms. Showing off her natural beauty, Sofia wore minimal make-up and had her trademark long locks flowing freely. Taking to Instagram to share the sizzling snap, the sexy actress wrote: "Llego el verano!" - which translates to "Summer has arrived!" Fans went into meltdown at the sexy picture, with one saying: "Too hot to handle!" another added. "Wow hot body," penned a third. Sofia even had a message from her supermodel pal Heide Klum, who wrote: "Come over ….I am doing the same thing. Sunbathing." SINGLE LADY Sofia is embracing the single life following her split from ex-husband Joe Manganiello. Sofia Vergara, 52, leaves fans 'drooling' in skintight red dress as she pays tribute to Taylor Swift on magazine cover The former Hollywood golden couple shocked fans when they split in 2023. The high-profile pair confirmed their separation after seven years of marriage, with them revealing at the time: "We have made the difficult decision to divorce. "As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives." Sofia and Joe, who is known for starring in Magic Mike, got married in a Palm Beach ceremony in November 2015. Their whirlwind wedding came after less than a year of dating. Shortly after their divorce came to light, reports swirled that their marriage was "impacted by Joe's sobriety" and the fact that Sofia was and is not actively sober. Speaking to MailOnline, the source revealed: "Of course, the fact that Sofia is not sober had an impact on their marriage." Sofia shared an update on her love life during an October 2024 interview with Us Weekly. Asked whether or not she thought New York City was the best place to date, she replied:: "Totally. Actually, I was talking about it because now I'm single. Kind of single."
BBC News
26 minutes ago
- BBC News
Thunder beat Pacers to level NBA Finals
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers 123-107 in game two of the NBA Finals to level the series at Pacers snatched victory in the final second of the opening game on Friday week, but on Sunday the Thunder dominated from start to first basket at Paycom Center in Oklahoma took him to 3,000 points for the season, making him the 12th player in NBA history to reach the three of the best-of-seven series, external takes place at Gainbridge Fieldhouse at 01:30 BST on Thursday, the first time Indianapolis has hosted a finals game in 25 years. "They play a full 48 minutes and you can't just throw the first punch," said Gilgeous-Alexander. "You've got to try to throw all the punches all night."That's what we did. We threw enough punches tonight to get a 'W'."Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA's Most Valuable Player, added five rebounds and eight Thunder's Jalen Williams scored 19 points, Aaron Wiggins had 18 and Chet Holmgren recovered from a disappointing six points in game one to score 15 points with six Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton was limited to 17 points, three rebounds and six assists."It's still a race - first to four," he said. "We are going to our home court tied 1-1."Haliburton walked out of the post-game news conference with a slight Pacers players scored in double figures, including Myles Turner with 16 points and Pascal Siakam with 15.
The Guardian
28 minutes ago
- The Guardian
The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa's United Passions
There are movies that bomb at the box office. And then there is the Fifa biopic United Passions, starring Tim Roth, Sam Neill and Gérard Depardieu, which was hit with the cinematic equivalent of a thermonuclear strike when it opened in the US 10 years ago this week. You might remember the fallout; the fact it took only $918 (£678) in its opening weekend, making it the lowest grossing film in US history at the time, and the stories detailing how two people bought tickets to see it in Philadelphia, and only one in Phoenix, before it was pulled by distributors. Then there were the reviews. 'As cinema it is excrement,' Jordan Hoffman wrote in the Guardian. 'As proof of corporate insanity it is a valuable case study. United Passions is a disgrace.' Admittedly, there was never going to be a good time to launch 109 minutes of soft-sheen history and propaganda about Jules Rimet, João Havelange and Sepp Blatter. But when 14 Fifa members were indicted on corruption charges just days before the $26m (£19m) film's US release, the film became a byword for hubris and excess. Only in Russia, where it made £140,000 at the box office, did it muster any sort of audience. Although what they made of Neill's attempt at Havelenge's accent, which veered wildly between Brazil, New Zealand and Ireland, is anyone's guess. The 10-year anniversary seemed like the perfect time for me to grit my teeth and watch United Passions for the first time. I also hoped that those involved might have got over their collective embarrassment and would be prepared to talk about it. Was it really the worst sports movie in history? Worse than Rocky V? Or the Love Guru, which starred Mike Myers as a bearded Indian whose task, in the words of the Observer's then critic Philip French, 'is to counsel a black ice-hockey star whose wife has run off with a French Canadian goalkeeper known as 'Le Coq' for the prodigious size of his membrum virile'. Having watched it, I can say that United Passions really is right up there. The script feels like it was written by a 2015 version of ChatGPT that has been programmed to hate the English, who come across as universally pompous. The dodgy stuff in Fifa's history is danced around, or ignored. And some of it is so cringey it makes you gasp. At one point, for instance, Blatter expresses his fears over the 1978 World Cup in Argentina because the military government is murdering its opponents. 'Who cares,' Havelange replies. 'During the World Cup they only dream of one thing, that ball. Because football brings consolation to all tragedies and sorrows!' That is the same Havelange who took millions in bribes and kickbacks from Fifa's deals with the marketing company ISL. In fact, United Passions is so comically awful the Internet Movie Database gives it 2.1 out of 10, a ranking so dismal it would qualify for its worst 100 films of all time list if it had the 10,000 votes needed to qualify. When the film came out Roth, who plays Blatter, admitted: 'This is a role that will have my father turning in his grave,' before confessing he did it only to put his kids through college. You can fault his performance, but not his honesty. A decade on, however, few others want to revisit it. The publicist sent me a lovely email but didn't remember many specifics. An ex-Fifa employee jokingly referred to the film as a 'blockbuster' but had only vague memories of its genesis. Fifa, meanwhile, didn't want to comment. The only exception? Blatter himself. When I spoke to his official spokesperson, Thomas Renggli, he asked me to fire over a few questions. A day later, he came back with the replies. 'Obviously the movie was not a success,' Blatter, who turns 90 next year, told me. 'A movie about Fifa is always controversial, so for me it was not a surprise that the opinions were so different in Russia and in the US.' Blatter also insisted that the concept of United Passions had not come from him and, contrary to internet rumour, he had not tinkered with the script to make himself the hero. 'The idea came up after there was a small movie called Goal,' he said. 'And in this environment, the Fifa management brought up the idea of producing a big movie. It was definitely not only me behind it. And concerning my part in the production, I was only an adviser. I was not involved in the script.' Which is just as well, because it is bad. Really, really bad. A few minutes into the film, for instance, Rimet tries to get Football Association bigwigs to join Fifa while speaking to them at half-time during a game. 'Our boys are two goals down gentlemen!' Rimet is told. 'There are things much more important than life and death. There is football. And at half-time things are deadly serious!' Blatter also insisted he was OK with how the film turned out, but Renggli told me that there was befuddlement when it was shown to Fifa employees before its premiere at the Cannes film festival. 'We were all sitting there in this big auditorium and everybody was thinking, 'what do they want to tell us with this film?' To me it did not make sense at all.' There are some, of course, who think Fifa will be making another expensive mistake in the US this weekend when it launches its 32-team Club World Cup. The early signs are not positive, with tickets for the opening game between Lionel Messi's Inter Miami and Al Ahly going for $55 – 16% of the original asking price of $349. There are also concerns with player welfare, given the increase in the number of games and Blatter, who was recently cleared of fraud by a Swiss court, is not a fan of the tournament, or next year's expanded 48-team World Cup. 'Havelange once told me that I made a monster when I created this wedding between TV and football,' he told me. 'But now it's all too much. There are too many games. And too many teams in the tournaments. Sooner or later, we will have 128 teams, like in a tennis grand slam.' And whatever you think of Blatter, or indeed United Passions, it is hard to disagree too much with those sentiments.
