{"id":75902,"date":"2026-07-09T07:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/republicans-ask-wnba-to-protect-caitlin-clark-from-possible-racially-motivated-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:54:55","slug":"republicans-ask-wnba-to-protect-caitlin-clark-from-possible-racially-motivated-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/republicans-ask-wnba-to-protect-caitlin-clark-from-possible-racially-motivated-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible \u2018racially motivated\u2019 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Clark has been on the end of hard fouls during career<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Black players routinely receive racist abuse in WNBA<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from \u201cmultiple attacks\u201d on court.<\/p>\n<p>Clark has been on the receiving end of hard fouls since she entered the league in 2024 after a stellar college career with Iowa. Recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/phoenix-mercury\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> forward Alyssa Thomas hit Clark in the throat during a game. Thomas was not called for a foul at the time but the WNBA later suspended her for one game. Thomas and her family received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/30\/alyssa-thomas-wnba-caitlin-clark-death-threats-cathy-engelbert\">racist abuse and death threats <\/a>after the incident.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/09\/republicans-ask-wnba-to-protect-caitlin-clark-from-possible-racially-motivated-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark has been on the end of hard fouls during career Black players routinely receive racist abuse in WNBA Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from \u201cmultiple attacks\u201d on court. Clark has been on the receiving end of hard fouls since she entered &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible \u2018racially motivated\u2019 attacks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/republicans-ask-wnba-to-protect-caitlin-clark-from-possible-racially-motivated-attacks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible \u2018racially motivated\u2019 attacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}