Reporter labeled a 'sexist pervert' over ぎこちない Caitlin Clark interaction 直面するs MORE （激しい）反発 after his groveling 陳謝 攻撃する，衝突するs the wrong 公式文書，認める with fans: 'Nothing says "I'm sorry" like making us click on your column'

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The sports reporter at the 中心 of an ぎこちない Caitlin Clark 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 論争 is 直面するing yet more （激しい）反発 after 令状ing a column of 陳謝 to the basketball 星／主役にする.

Indy 星／主役にする columnist Gregg Doyel went viral on Wednesday after imitating the former Iowa 星／主役にする's heart-手渡すs gesture to her 直面する, before 説: 'Start doing it to me and we'll get along just 罰金'.

In the 影響, Doyel copped plenty of 批評 online, with Barstool Sports 創立者 Dave Portnoy even labeling him a 'sexist pervert' and 'nauseating' in a 一連の scathing tweets.

Doyel then 答える／応じるd with a?tweet - and column - of his own, but has now copped more 乱用 online after his 陳謝 struck the wrong トン with fans.?

Taking to X, one basketball fan wrote: 'Nothing says, "I'm sorry," like making us click on your column so you can get clicks.'

Caitlin Clark was at the 中心 of an 半端物 interaction at her first Indiana 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会

Indy 星／主役にする reporter Gregg Doyel was labeled a 'sexist pervert' for his comments to the player

Doyel wrote a column of 陳謝, but fans 攻撃する，衝突する out at him for trying to get clicks to his website

Fans 勧めるd him to 辞職する and slammed him for trying to 生成する clicks out of his 陳謝

Another 追加するd: 'The 初めの tweet wasn’t enough you had to turn it into an article to get clicks. Just 辞職する. Please.'

一方／合間, a 使用者 by the 指名する of 'Doctor Disney': wrote: 'Just stop, man. Stop. 令状ing a column for 攻撃する，衝突するs after 問題／発行するing an 陳謝 on Twitter doesn’t say much about your 誠実. 'It says, “I know this column will probably get lots of 攻撃する，衝突するs since everyone is angry at my 活動／戦闘s.” Stop.'

One basketball fan took umbrage with the 陳謝 itself, 令状ing: 'Gregg, all 予定 尊敬（する）・点, your 陳謝 continues to 行方不明になる a big part of the point and "that's just the way I am" is not an excuse for anyone above the age of 5 years old.'

In the column, Doyel 収容する／認めるs he 'screwed up' and 主張するs he is 'known 地元で for having ぎこちない conversations with people'.

He then 追加するs that he was 最初 in 否定 and 'didn't do anything wrong', before realizing that he was 'ignorant' and has 'learned that I need to be more aware about how I talk to people'.

Doyel ends his column with a その上の 陳謝 to Clark, 明言する／公表するing: 'I now realize what I said and how I said it was wrong, wrong wrong. I mean it was just wrong. Caitlin Clark, I'm so sorry.'

Doyel is a long-time reporter at the 星／主役にする and told readers he is 'known' for ぎこちない interactions

The gesture Clark does at the end of games is seen here, with the former Iowa 星／主役にする smiling

一方／合間, Portnoy was not alone in his 初期の fury over Doyel's 発言／述べるs, with several other 目だつ 発言する／表明するs in the 産業 公然と taking 問題／発行する with the reporter's comments.

Katie Mox of CBS Sports, said: 'What happened to Caitlin Clark today at her first 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in Indy wa s really 甚だしい／１２ダース.'

CBC Sports 上級の contributor Shireen Ahmed even 示唆するd Doyel should be stripped of his 信任状.

'Almost every one of my women 同僚s & students in sport マスコミ and sports journalism are 株ing that clip of Gregg Doyel and Caitlin Clark with disgust,' Ahmed wrote on X.

'We are rightly furious and fed up. His creds should be 取り消すd and 申し込む／申し出d to an unentitled 新聞記者／雑誌記者 who 尊敬（する）・点s women.'

利益／興味 in Clark has given the Fever to 完全に change the trajectory of their franchise, 類似して to how LeBron James elevated the Cleveland Cavaliers during his two stints with the team.

And while the Fever 手配中の，お尋ね者 Clark's message of helping the team get 支援する to the postseason as the 継続している message, her 交流 with Doyel might unfortunately 勝つ／広く一帯に広がる.

Clark was selected by the Indiana Fever with the first 全体にわたる 選ぶ in the 2024 WNBA 草案?

Clark has already 調印するd lucrative 取引，協定s with companies like 明言する／公表する Farm and Gatorade

It is also not the first 論争 伴う／関わるing Clark since she was 草案d on Monday night, with fans also furiously 反応するing to her salary at the Indiana Fever.

While the male 同等（の） of the No. 1 全体にわたる 選ぶ - 勝利者 Wembanyama - 選ぶd up $12,160,680 in his first season in the NBA, Clark will earn just $76,535 in her first year.

Even 大統領 Joe Biden has 重さを計るd in on the news, 需要・要求するing that WNBA players are 'paid their fair 株'.?

'Women in sports continue to 押し進める new 境界s and 奮起させる us all. But 権利 now we're seeing that even if you're the best, women are not paid their fair 株,' Biden wrote in a 地位，任命する on X.

Clark's 業績／成果 in the basketball 法廷，裁判所 during this year's NCAA tournament riveted the nation, with Iowa Hawkeyes games breaking viewership 記録，記録的な／記録するs.

For the first time ever, the NCAA women's basketball 選手権 pulled in more テレビ視聴者s than the men's game.

ESPN 発表するd 2.45 million people tuned in to watch the Indiana Fever take Clark on Monday as the No. 全体にわたる 選ぶ in the WNBA 草案, 鎮圧するing the previous viewership 記録，記録的な／記録する of just over 601,000.

Even 大統領 Biden 重さを計るd in on X and called for women to be 'paid what they deserve'

Clark 調印するs autographs for fans at the WNBA 草案 in Brooklyn on Monday night

But even as all 注目する，もくろむs a re on Clark, she will be 収入 いっそう少なく money in her first year WNBA 契約 than some NBA mascots make.

Clark will earn $338,056 over the course of her four years in Indiana.?

She will 調印する a three year 契約 with an 選択 for a fourth year.?

Clark would earn $76,535 in year one. That goes up to $78,066 in year two and $85,873 in year three. If she takes the fourth year, she would earn $97,582.