#1621 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by sports historian Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University and sports fan David Nicandri of Washington State. Our subject: the Caitlin Clark phenomenon. Clark of the University of Iowa now holds the NCAA collegiate basketball record for most career points in either the men’s or women’s league. What is next for her? How does her sudden national celebrity impact the game? How many thousands of girls are out on the driveway practicing their dribble and their jump shots thanks to her example? What should we make of the game's marketing team pitting Clark, who is white, against Angel Reese, an African American?

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the special edition of listening to America with
0:10.0	Clay Jenkins and I have two of my favorite guests on Kurt Kemper from
0:13.4	Dakota State University in eastern South Dakota and Dave Nacandri
0:17.4	formerly the director of the Washington State Historical Society.
0:21.9	Gentlemen welcome both.
0:23.4	Thank you.
0:24.4	Happy to be here, Clay.
0:25.4	Good to see again, Clay.
0:26.8	Now, of course, you are my two Red Barber correspondence.
0:29.6	I don't know a lot about sports.
0:31.1	I'm sort of fascinated from an anthropological point of view or
0:34.4	from a cross-cultural point of view, but I'm not an avid weekly sports witzer, but I'm not an avid
0:40.5	weekly consumer of television sports, and I have no child currently in any sporting
0:45.5	activity whatsoever. Although my daughter at Oxford has been getting into Archery which I don't think counts. All right, so, Kurt, let me start with you.
0:52.8	You have written a book called Before March Madness, The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball,
0:58.9	one of the two books that really caught my attention.
1:01.4	The other thing I know is that Caitlin Clark of Iowa has now
1:04.0	scored more points than any other person in the history of the NCAA boys or girls. So Kurt, pick it up from there.
1:10.1	Well, yeah, so I can't admit that I am much of an expert on women's college basketball, the book that I wrote focused entirely on the origins of the men's tournament.
1:18.8	However, one of the things that my book does touch on is the way in which the NCAA has managed to
1:27.0	slay all competitors. My book mostly focuses on the way in which they completely delegitimated the NAA, the National Association for
1:36.6	Intercollegiate Athletics, but I make brief reference at the end that the patterns that were
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