New creepy ビデオ 現れるs of 'sexist pervert' Gregg Doyel calling Caitlin Clark 'this' and 'it' in bizarre question to Indiana Fever coach Christie 味方するs - after Dave Portnoy slammed reporter's 'nauseating' 発言／述べるs to WNBA 星／主役にする

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Indy 星／主役にする columnist Gregg Doyel had not one, but two creepy interactions with Indiana Fever 新人 Caitlin Clark during Wednesday's 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in Indianapolis.

In 新規加入 to his bizarre request that Clark make heart-形態／調整d 手渡す gestures to him before games ? a comment that 誘発するd 全国的な 乱暴／暴力を加える ? Doyel also referred to the WNBA sensation as 'that' and 'it' during a question 目的（とする）d at coach Christie 味方するs

'You were just given the 重要なs to that,' he said to 味方するs, referring to Clark as if she were a sportscar. 'What are you going to do with it?'

味方するs 答える／応じるd by humanizing Clark:??'Hopefully we're gonna 勝利，勝つ a lot of games to 星／主役にする. She's gonna help us out with that.'

Spokespeople for the Indy 星／主役にする and its parent company, Gannett, did not すぐに 答える／応じる to DailyMail.com's request for comment on Thursday morning.?

Caitlin Clark (left) and Fever coach Christie 味方するs were left dumfounded by Gregg Doyel?

Doyel, a father-of-two, is a columnist for the Indy 星／主役にする. He 以前 worked for CBS Sports

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

The headline from Wednesday's 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 was the first ぎこちない 交流 Clark 耐えるd with Doyel.?

He began by imitating the celebratory 手渡す gesture Clark gives to her family after every game in which she makes the 形態／調整 of a heart with her 手渡すs.?

'I do that at my family after every game,' said Clark.?

Doyel then made the most 残念な comment of the 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会: '承認する, 井戸／弁護士席 listen, start doing it to me and we'll get along just 罰金.'

Doyel has since 申し込む／申し出d his 陳謝 online.??

'Today in my uniquely oafish way, while welcoming @CaitlinClark22 to Indy, I formed my 手渡すs into her 署名,' the reporter wrote on X.

'My comment afterward was clumsy and ぎこちない. I 心から わびる. Please know my heart (literally and figuratively) was 井戸／弁護士席-意向d. I will do better.'

Gregg Doyel has わびるd on social マスコミ and in a column since Wednesday's 出来事/事件?

Dave Portnoy labelled Gregg Doyel a 'sexist pervert' after Caitlin Clark's 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会?

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever 会談 to the マスコミ during an introductory 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会

Doyel has two children,?Macon and Jackson, with Melody (中心). It is 不明瞭な whether the pair remain together

Melody (権利) and Gregg (second 権利) sit together at their son's 卒業 儀式

Barstool Sports boss Dave Portnoy has since branded Doyel a 'sexist pervert' and is 需要・要求するing his 雇用者 take 活動／戦闘.

'Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever Career Begins With Gregg Doyel 存在 A sexiest pervert at Introductory 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会,' Portnoy wrote. '@IndyStarSports do something about this pervert.

'To 明らかにする I meant to call Gregg Doyle a sexist pervert. Which he is based on his nauseating 活動／戦闘s today,' Portnoy 追加するd later.

Portnoy was not alone in his 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 was 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.'?

Gregg Doyel (権利) is pictured と一緒に one of his two sons に引き続いて a 最近の 卒業?

Doyel is pictured と一緒に his two sons. A native of Hawaii, he was raised in Mississippi

Doyel, a father-of-two, is a columnist for the Indy 星／主役にする. He 開始する，打ち上げるd a career in journalism after 熟考する／考慮するing?at the University of Florida, before going on to work for The Tampa Tribune, Miami 先触れ（する）, Charlotte 観察者／傍聴者 and CBS Spo rts.

In his author biography, he 最高潮の場面s his experience as an amateur boxer and brags about 存在 an all-明言する／公表する in baseball and サッカー during his high school years.

Gregg Doyel's column on Clark 焦点（を合わせる）d on all the 需要・要求するs she'll be 直面するing in Indianapolis?

He 公式文書，認めるs that teachers, 退役軍人s, Hospice care, the 不死鳥／絶品 Society and raising ALS 認識／意識性 are の中で the 問題／発行するs important to him.

In 2023 he was 指名するd one of the 250 most 影響力のある people in Indiana by the?Indianapolis 商売／仕事 定期刊行物.

Doyel's 発言／述べる comes まっただ中に a 国家の 審議 over Clark's 不十分な 新人 salary of?$76,535.?

A $338,056 sum 分散させるd over four seasons, Clark's 新人 取引，協定 was 限られた／立憲的な by the 条件 of the WNBA 集団の／共同の-取引ing 協定 新人 支払う／賃金 規模 ? a labor 取引，協定 that was 交渉するd in 2020, before her freshman year at Iowa.

Regardless, Clark's 新人 salary is いっそう少なく than 1 パーセント of NBA first-全体にわたる 選ぶ 勝利者 Wembanyama's $12 million take, and that fact has reignited the 審議 over the gender 行う gap in sports.

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

'It's time that we give our daughters the same 適切な時期s as our sons and 確実にする women are paid what they deserve.'?

Biden says women to be 'paid what they deserve' as people sound off online over? Clark's 取引，協定

To be fair, Clark is on the 瀬戸際 of 調印 a new eight-人物／姿／数字 裏書，是認 を取り引きする Nike that will 含む her own 署名 shoe, によれば The 運動競技の's Shams Charania.?

But even that 大規模な 契約 落ちるs 井戸／弁護士席 short of 橋（渡しをする）ing the 支払う／賃金 gap between the NBA and WNBA.??

Not only is Wembanyama's 新人 を取り引きする the San Antonio 刺激（する）s 価値（がある） $55 million, but the 7-foot-4 Frenchman has his own Nike 契約 噂するd to be valued at more than $100 million.

That's not 完全に surprising, given the NBA's 人気, which makes it more profitable than its sister league.??For starters, its $2.7 billion 年次の 国家の television 歳入 dwarfs the WNBA's $60 million 年次の 契約.

But Clark has seemingly changed the math for the WNBA, which enjoyed its highest-率d 草案 on Monday with 2.45 million テレビ視聴者s. And 支援する in Indianapolis, the Fever 報告（する）／憶測d more than 17,000 attendees at their WNBA 草案 watch party.

Clark won't make her WNBA 正規の／正選手-season debut until May 14, but ticket prices on the 第２位 market have already 急に上がるd over $500. 一方／合間, the defending-支持する／優勝者 Las Vegas エースs have made 計画（する）s to open up 7,000 more seats when the Fever come to town on May 25.

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

Other 競技者s - and not just 女性（の） sports 星／主役にするs - have taken notice.?

'These ladies deserve so much more,' Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson wrote on X earlier this week.??

But not everyone agrees.?

'Russ, no snark, but explain to me why they deserve so much more,' 答える／応じるd podcaster Jason Whitlock. 'Are they curing 癌, educating children, building ロケット／急騰する ships?'?

Whitlock continued 負かす／撃墜する this path, arguing that the WNBA isn't profitable enough to 正当化する larger salaries for its players.

'Hundreds of thousands of young people leave college each year and start careers for いっそう少なく than 70k a year,' continued Whitlock, a sports pundit 報道によれば 価値（がある） millions. 'Is a basketball player in a league that loses money every year 価値（がある） more than an 電気の engineer?

'Walk me through it. Thanks and good luck in Pittsburgh.'

Caitlin Clark 調印するs autographs for fans during the 2024 WNBA 草案 on April 15

Of course, Clark has already earned millions in 裏書，是認 取引，協定s with brands like 明言する／公表する Farm, but the 議論の的になる podcaster was only 演説（する）／住所ing her 現在の WNBA salary - something she was unable to really 交渉する, per the 現在の 集団の／共同の-取引ing 協定.?

W hitlock did not get a 返答 from Wilson, but there are encouraging 調印するs for the WNBA's 底（に届く） line.

(From 権利 to left) Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark and Cameron Brink at the WNBA 草案?

The league jumped from a 報告（する）／憶測d $60 million in 歳入 in 2022 to a 報告（する）／憶測d $200 million in 2023. And with a new マスコミ 権利s 取引，協定 on the horizon, those 人物／姿／数字s can continue to 増加する, given the 人気 of Clark and the 残り／休憩（する） of the 2024 WNBA 草案 class.

Before becoming the obvious first-全体にわたる 選ぶ by the Fever, Clark spent the last month guiding Iowa to its second 連続した NCAA 選手権 game while 獲得するing the biggest television audiences in tournament history. In the last few days she's been on Saturday Night Live and NBC's Today Show, not to について言及する countless 出版（物）s, websites, 同様に as the lips and ears of sports fans across the country.

Sponsors have already taken notice, with Opill, SKIMS, Peloton, La Crema, and Tissot 発表するing 共同s with the WNBA in 最近の weeks.

The league already 計画（する）s to 追加する a new team in 2025, but with Clark's arrival, there is more 拡大 talk in the 作品, not to について言及する a new マスコミ 取引，協定 that could dwarf the 現在の 契約.

'This is an important year for us around viewership, around 出席, around all the qualitative and quantitative factors that go into the valuation of マスコミ 権利s,' commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Monday.

'The one thing I know about sports, you need 世帯 指名するs, 競争s and games of consequence,' she continued, 言及／関連ing the women's NCAA tournament. 'Those are the three things we've had over the past couple weeks.'