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Dave Portnoy won’t let anyone say he’s a Caitlin Clark fan simply because she’s white.
In a recent edition of her podcast, ESPN analyst Ryan Clark name, Barstool dropped the sports founder like anyone on “Hate Train” by Angel Reese after her spat with Clark over the weekend.
Clark said that Portnoy, Keith Olbermann and Robert Griffin III have made Reese “The Villain” and Clark “Heroic.”
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Barstol’s founder and CEO Dave Portnoy (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Portnoy sent a video over six minutes long, saying he “can’t believe that I was running over this again,” replied Clark.
Portnoy made it a point to mention that he is “sure there are some black people who hate Caitlin just because she is white. I’m sure there are white people who hate Angel just because she’s black.”
But he is not one of these people and he thought the Reese hatred is justified.
“Caitlin fans have every reason to hate Angel Reese.… Fever-Fever fans, Caitlin fans should hate Angel Reese. Angel Reese has been nothing more than an instanture, agitator and jacka basically in the last few years,” Portnoy said in his video.
“Angel Reese has doubled, tripled, quadrupled down and has built his persona as Caitlin’s rival.… That’s the one thing after another, after another
“I’m tired of ESPN making it a race problem,” he continued. “You have a superior basketball player who constantly has someone under taking shots at them will not hold chain and then play the victim … If [Angel] didn’t have Caitlin no one would know who she is. If Caitlin didn’t have Angel, it would be the same popularity for Caitlin. “
Dave Portnoy weighed in on Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark rivalization. (IMagn)
Caitlin Clark talks about Wnbas probe for alleged ‘hateful comments’ against Angel Reese
Clark and Reese entered a mini-scuffle after Clark gifted Reese hard; It was controlled an obvious. Clark later noticed evil as a “Good Fair” as she did not want Reese to have a “free two points” under the curve. Reese later agreed despite her visible frustrations early.
Clark and Reese have a greater history back to 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship. Both players neglected the incident. Both have even said that there is no rivalry between them and that it has been driven by the media.
Portnoy took part in the competition and said that Reese “deserved to be booed” after being upset over Clark. He was also sorry for WNBA’s investigation of alleged hate comments aimed at Reese.
“Listen, I was at the game. If there was someone who was racist or said S — of course starts them, never let them back,” said Portnoy. “I would be stunned beyond faith if it was the case
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy looks up at the scoreboard during a May 17, 2025, the game between Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith-Indystar via imagn images)
“For Wnba and now the Indiana fever to send out statements, ‘we are investigating’ unless something so creepy happened that no one in the stadium so is not an ounce of evidence there is not a video of what is [no] Camera phone of it unless something happened, which I know it didn’t. For them to acknowledge this and again, kind of paint Indiana Fever fans who, by just saying ‘we are investigating the hatred’ … even though it is 100% false, by acknowledging, ‘we do not condon hatred’ and do not see that this was an internet rumors founded by complete bulls — you give credibility to this. ‘
Clark told Espns Holly Rowe after the third quarter that there had been “nothing malicious” behind the bad.
