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***Official Caitlin/Fever/Kate/Meg Games Mega Thread***

I take it you have never heard of Serena Williams or Simone Biles or Martina Navratilova or Chris Evert.

Never going to take anything away from what Caitlin has accomplished, but damn, Jennifer Capriati was on the cover of every magazine and newspaper in basically the world before she was old enough to drive.

Will never understand why you all think that putting down the accomplishments of the women that have come before is some how lifting Caitlin up.

Damn…Mary Lou Retton
Not putting anyone down, and frankly your making a false argument. I'm talking about NBA players going to indiana and paying HOMAGE to a rookie WNBA player (like thats EVER happened before), wearing her T shirt and singing her praises on social media. (Yes I'm aware that social media hasn't always been out there, and this is certainly part of it). You have the biggest stars in the mens game unabashedly posting about her skills. All your tennis star mentions were great players (several Icons) but I don't remember mens stars paying them homage. When Iowa was on their Euro tour the summer before her senior season, the USC mens team took a detour from where they were traveling to get to where Iowa was (Croatia I think at the time) for the sole purpose of watching her play in person. There were numerous concerts the last couple of years where the headliner stars came out on stage wearing CC22 Iowa tshirts.
 
Not putting anyone down, and frankly your making a false argument. I'm talking about NBA players going to indiana and paying HOMAGE to a rookie WNBA player (like thats EVER happened before), wearing her T shirt and singing her praises on social media. (Yes I'm aware that social media hasn't always been out there, and this is certainly part of it). You have the biggest stars in the mens game unabashedly posting about her skills. All your tennis star mentions were great players (several Icons) but I don't remember mens stars paying them homage. When Iowa was on their Euro tour the summer before her senior season, the USC mens team took a detour from where they were traveling to get to where Iowa was (Croatia I think at the time) for the sole purpose of watching her play in person. There were numerous concerts the last couple of years where the headliner stars came out on stage wearing CC22 Iowa tshirts.
Yes, the key word is rookie! Can you imagine her star power in 5 years?
 
Caitlin is on the cover of Time Magazine’s “Inspiring Women” edition

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Leave it up to TIme to name a bunch of entertainers as "inspiring."

Our priorities as a society are jacked up.

Not a criticism of Caitlin in any manner. She is doing things the right way in her world.
You are spot on. Are there no women surgeons? Teachers? Charity workers? Policewomen? Firefighters? 911 dispatchers? etc? My gosh, what in the hell do they consider inspiring?
 
What an odd takeaway. Someone marvels about something they hadn’t seen before and what you read is a put down of prior athletes. Why not read that she just outshines other stars in the sky? Maybe others were born or did not bear witness to Martina, Chris, Jennifer, or Mary Lou?
Zach is a Nebber, plain and simple.
 
You are spot on. Are there no women surgeons? Teachers? Charity workers? Policewomen? Firefighters? 911 dispatchers? etc? My gosh, what in the hell do they consider inspiring?
You're absolutely correct, however that doesn't sell magazines. And maybe there are stories of those people inside we don't know.
 
No one’s putting them down. Clark’s on another level. I don’t remember people wearing Navratilova shirts all over the place.
You remember that time when stores couldn’t keep those Chris Evert signature rackets on shelves because they literally would sell out in minutes? Or the time when Van Halen brought Mary Lou Retton up on stage during a performance?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.
 
Lexie joins Unrivaled. One spot left. Caitlin either joins or there is another basketball league I don't care about.

Unrivaled and CC22 are being incredibly tight lipped about the whole thing. Maybe they are waiting for a big drop to get the sporting world's attention? In negotiations to get her to join? You are correct in one regard- no one will care about Unrivaled if CC22 isn't involved.
 
Unrivaled and CC22 are being incredibly tight lipped about the whole thing. Maybe they are waiting for a big drop to get the sporting world's attention? In negotiations to get her to join? You are correct in one regard- no one will care about Unrivaled if CC22 isn't involved.
You could be on to something with the news cycle. World Series is over and that is in the papers today. If they have something in the works, maybe they issue at statement tomorrow when there is no World Series news and not very much football to write about?
 
You remember that time when stores couldn’t keep those Chris Evert signature rackets on shelves because they literally would sell out in minutes? Or the time when Van Halen brought Mary Lou Retton up on stage during a performance?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Bahahahhaha
 
What an odd takeaway. Someone marvels about something they hadn’t seen before and what you read is a put down of prior athletes. Why not read that she just outshines other stars in the sky? Maybe others were born or did not bear witness to Martina, Chris, Jennifer, or Mary Lou?
He sucks. I think the lil guy is just butthurt because we don't like Diana Taurasi around here
 
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Last spot goes to Boston. Unrivaled says come any time.


 
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Last spot goes to Boston. Unrivaled says come any time.



I think 6 more spots are available yet. Boston was #30, iirc, of the newly expanded 36 person league.
"Still, Clark could have changed her mind between Indiana's exit interviews and now — with the announcement that Unrivaled has expanded to 36 players, the league has six more players to announce before it starts in January."

It was already reported here on that expansion and the reason why.

 
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