Gregg Doyel was banned from covering the WNBA star after an awkward incident—yet he wrote about her again. That column shouldn’t have run, a source told The Daily Beast.
last week that top sports columnist Gregg Doyel would “not be covering the Indiana Fever” after a creepy interaction with star, titled “Indiana Fever, Caitlin Clark need time after being thrown into fire by opportunistic WNBA,” should not have been published. The column only came about due to a misunderstanding over his coverage parameters, the source said. It followed a suspension, first reported last week, that he would not be allowed to cover the Fever.
That ban was reiterated to The Daily Beast on Wednesday by Lark-Marie Anton, Gannett’s chief communications officer who represents the“Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel will not be covering the Indiana Fever,” Anton wrote in a statement. Doyel’s column—one of two published on Wednesday, his first pieces in weeks—encouraged readers not to give up on the team or Clark following their loss to the Connecticut Sun. “Don’t youlet Tuesday night temper your enthusiasm for the Indiana Fever, or for Caitlin Clark, or for the most anticipated WNBA season in history — locally and afar,” he wrote.with Clark at an April 17 press conference after she signed with the Fever.
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