The PERFECT analogy to explain why Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary makes sense



In the wake of Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark signing with the Indiana Fever, fans are outraged at the superstar’s projected WNBA salary, which will earn her just $76,535 for her rookie season.

When you consider that Clark was the number-one draft pick, that amount does seem remarkably low, especially when you consider that the number-one draft pick for the NBA in 2023 was Victor Wembanyama, whose starting salary with the San Antonio Spurs was just over $12 million.

Is this fair?

According to Dave Rubin and guest Dennis Prager, yes.

While Dave gives credit where credit is due, calling Clark a “spectacular women’s basketball player,” he doesn’t think “[taking] some money from LeBron James and [giving] it to Caitlin Clark” is the answer.

Prager agrees, offering an analogy that puts things into perspective.

“How much does a supermodel make? The truth is some of them make millions of dollars a year,” he tells Dave.

And he’s correct. In 2023, several supermodels made tens of millions of dollars, and every single one of them was – you guessed it – a woman.

“Are there any male supermodels who make millions of dollars a year?” Prager asks. “I doubt it.”

Correct again. The highest-paid male model of 2023 was Sean O’Pry, who earned roughly $1.5 million.

Why the disparity?

“Because generally speaking, people would rather see women models than male models,” says Prager. “So is it fair that male models make so much less than female models? Yes, of course it’s fair!”

And just as the male modeling industry pales in comparison to the female modeling industry, so “the WNBA does not bring in the revenue of the NBA.”

“They take the gender confusion and then they combine it into something as it relates to capitalism that really just all leads to socialism,” says Dave.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.


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UConn Coach Dan Hurley identifies good recruits by first looking at their parents: 'They tell on themselves'



Dan Hurley, the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Connecticut — which has just won back-to-back national championships — claimed that when he heads out on the recruiting trail, he doesn't just look at the play on the court. For a quality player who will fit in with his program, Hurley first looks at a player's parents.

"We spend a lot of time really focusing on the parents," Hurley told CBS, according to FootballScoop. "Are they going to be fans of their son, or are they going to be parents?"

Some parents these days keep their son's skin thin by catering to his whims and ego, "constantly complaining about the coaches after a bad game" without ever pushing him "to do more" and "play harder," Hurley said.

Hurley looks for parents who will hold their child accountable and "have an expectation that when something goes wrong that it's not the coach's fault." "Their son's got to work harder," Hurley said. "He's got to do more; he's got to earn his role."

Hurley seemed to indicate that coddling parents are easy to spot. "They tell on themselves," he explained. "They drop hints."

Hurley suggested that coaches should avoid players — even those with raw talent — if they have parents more worried about protecting their children than developing them. "You've got the wrong type of people around the inner circle of your players, they'll sink your program," Hurley cautioned.

Hurley, 51, knows firsthand the importance of a strong family that holds one another accountable. Dan Hurley is the younger son of Bob Hurley, the legendary coach of the now-closed St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. Bob Hurley led the Friars to 28 state titles in 39 years, good enough for a spot in the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Bob Hurley's other son, Bobby Hurley, won back-to-back national championships with Duke in the early 1990s. He now coaches the Sun Devils of Arizona State. In nine years at ASU, Bobby Hurley has made three NCAA tournament appearances, most recently in 2023.

"My dad started the whole thing," Bobby Hurley said last year. "If anyone has a problem with our competitive drive, you should probably start right there. He hated to lose. He rarely lost, and when he did, everyone was hiding in the house because that’s just how things were."

The Hurley family are also practicing Catholics, and Dan Hurley recently gave a speech about the importance of fatherhood at a fundraiser for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Hartford. "We can’t thank Coach Hurley enough for supporting our mission," said CEO Marek Kukulka. "He and his family are shining examples of dedication and commitment."

That strong foundation of faith and family has shaped Dan Hurley into the coach he is today. "I want to coach with integrity," he said, "... [and] be a coach’s coach like my dad, not a phony or a fraud or a liar or a cheater."

"I want to be the college version of my dad."

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Will viewership tank once Caitlin Clark heads to the WNBA?



Women’s basketball has now broken records, and some believe it has a lot more to do with Caitlin Clark than anything else.

The television broadcast of the South Carolina-Iowa game averaged 18.9 million viewers and peaked at 24.1 million, which is the most views ever recorded for a men or women’s college basketball game on an ESPN platform.

“She’s brought a bunch of eyes to women’s college basketball,” Jeffy tells Pat Gray, who adds, “It’s hard for me to believe. The most-watched basketball game of any kind?”

While it’s an impressive feat, neither Gray or Jeffy believe the viewership will continue once Clark moves on to the WNBA.

“In the future, without Caitlin, you know there will be a few more eyes brought to women’s basketball,” Jeffy says.

Gray wonders if “they will stay there,” and Jeffy predicts, “No way.”

Even the vice president has gotten in on the madness by recently feigning interest in women’s basketball, claiming that women’s teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022.

“A bit of a history lesson, do you know that the women’s teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022? Think about that,” Kamala Harris said, despite being wrong.

“People used to say, ‘Ah, women’s sports, who’s interested?’” She added.

“We’ll check back in with you next year after Caitlin’s gone,” Gray laughs.


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Woke op-ed writer blasts Oral Roberts U., suggests Christian school should be banned from NCAA competition for its 'anti-LGBTQ+ stance'



After tiny Oral Roberts University shocked the sports world with its otherworldly upsets of second-seeded Ohio State and then seventh-seeded Florida in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, you knew the woke mob sooner or later would deliver vitriol against the famously conservative Christian college.

What are the details?

Sure enough, a Tuesday op-ed penned by USA Today's Hemal Jhaveri did just that.

While acknowledging that Oral Roberts has "become a fan favorite" due to its improbable underdog run, Jhaveri pulled no punches when came to the school's moral standards, which she said are "wholly incompatible with the NCAA's own stated values of equality and inclusion" — particularly its "discriminatory and hateful anti-LGBTQ+ policy."

She noted that ORU condemns "homosexual behavior" along with "adultery" and "premarital sex" and requires students to pledge they won't be in marriages other than those "between one man and one woman," none of which is surprising for a conservative Christian college.

More from Jhaveri's op-ed:

As a private university and under the banner of fundamentalist Christian beliefs, the school is free to impose whatever standards of behavior they see fit, even if those standards are wildly out of line with modern society and the basic values of human decency. Now, as Oral Roberts gains national attention, the focus shouldn't just be on their very good men's basketball team, but on their prejudiced teachings and moral regressiveness.

That Oral Roberts wants to keep its students tied to toxic notions of fundamentalism that fetishize chastity, abstinence and absurd hemlines is a larger cultural issue that can be debated. What is not up for debate however is their anti-LGBTQ+ stance, which is nothing short of discriminatory and should expressly be condemned by the NCAA.

She went on to argue that "any and all anti-LGBTQ+ language in any school's polices should ban them from NCAA competition."

Calling ORU "a hotbed of institutional transphobia, homophobia with regressive, sexist policies," Jhaveri added that "there is no way to separate their men's basketball team from the dangers of their religious dogma, no matter how many top seeds they defeat."

If Jhaveri's name sounds familiar...

You might recognize Jhaveri's name, as she was in numerous news stories earlier this week for being one of many prominent leftists who jumped to conclusions about the race of the Boulder mass killer before suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was identified.

Jhaveri wrote in a now-deleted tweet that "it's always an angry white male. always."

I’m shocked and appalled that the Race and Inclusion editor at a major newspaper, is, in fact, a racist. (And prono… https://t.co/OI01ehUnbA
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While Jhaveri's tweets are now protected and not viewable without her permission, Townhall noted that she apologized for the latter tweet: "I deleted a previous tweet that was posted in haste and poor judgement. My tweet was impulsive and an over-generalization, for which I apologize. That over-generalization does not reflect the values of this position or Gannett."

It's likely just fine with Twitter's censors, though.

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College prof accuses ESPN's Dan Dakich of 'misogynistic and violent' behavior because of a tweet



A professor at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania says she felt "violated" by a tweet from ESPN college basketball announcer and radio host Dan Dakich because he used the word "bitching," claiming that he also made a "sexualized" reference.

Dr. Johanna Mellis, a former Division I swimmer and co-host of "The End of Sport Podcast," accused Dakich of "misogynistic and violent" behavior toward her after the two got into a debate on social media Feb. 23 over compensation for college athletes.

At one point in the exchange, which included two other college professors, Dakich questioned whether Mellis and the other profs knew what they were talking about. In response, Mellis challenged him to a swim race.

"Dan you want to play in the 'arena'?" Mellis tweeted. "Let's level the playing field a bit: I used to swim upwards of 10,000 yards in practice sometimes. I've done 10x100s butterfly, 10x400IMs, and one time 10x1000 freestyles for time. It's brutal, but yeah let's go at it in the pool"

Dakich responded with a tweet (since deleted) saying that he would have to get divorced from his wife first and used "bitching" in reference to Mellis' complaints.

"Through his use of the b-word and the way he sexualized my clear reference to racing in the pool, he debased and violated me according to my identity over the public airwaves for all to hear," Mellis told the Indianapolis Star.

"His actions are the perfect example of how critics of exploitation in the sports realm are treated, especially women," she added.

On his WFNI-AM radio show, Dakich dismissed the accusation that he was being "violent" toward Mellis.

"I just said bitching because it's what people do. It's what everybody does, everybody just bitches. But that's sexist apparently because I said bitching and a lady was in the conversation," he said, according to the New York Post.

"And then she wanted to, quote, go at it in the pool. Well, if you go at it in a pool, that's a public place and then I'm gonna have to get divorced, and then it's just gonna be a problem," he added.

ESPN said Sunday it was "looking into" the controversy with Dakich.

This is not the first time the basketball announcer has faced controversy.

In 2019, Dakich was suspended by WFNI for five days for failing to "adhere to journalistic principles," though the station owners did not elaborate on how he had done so.

Dakich's Twitter account appears to have been deactivated since Monday.