Welcome to another episode of Sports Are Fun!
Every week on Sports Are Fun! presented by Amazon Business, co-hosts soccer legend Kelley O’Hara, sports journalist Greydy Diaz, and JWS intern BJ serve up their hottest takes on the biggest women’s sports headlines.
This week, the Sports Are Fun! crew is joined by retired NWSL star Darian Jenkins. And with the WNBA season tipping off last weekend, women’s basketball naturally dominated conversation.
Firstly? The Caitlin Clark flagrant foul heard around the league — and the fallout that subsequently followed it.
“First game that we want to go over is Fever vs. Sky,” O’Hara introduced. “Caitlin Clark had a triple-double. Angel Reese had a double-double. And the Fever won. But what everyone’s been talking about is the foul that Caitlin Clark committed on Angel.”
“The flagrant,” corrected BJ.
“Excuse me,” O’Hara said. “So Caitlin Clark had a foul on Angel Reese under the basket. It got upgraded to a flagrant one. Aliyah Boston came to her defense, because Reese got up and was kind of going for Caitlin. A lot of chatter around this, and I liked the spice.”
“It’s the game,” Diaz said, jumping in. “It was a basketball play, as they both said. However, it was flagrant. It happens in basketball. I think it was the…
