Can Caitlin Clark fix college sports?

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The biggest star of this year’s March Madness basketball tournament isn’t one of the male players, explains SB Nation’s Ricky O’Donnell. The Wall Street Journal’s Laine Higgins says that’s great, but women are still somehow fighting for equality in college sports. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Hady Mawajdeh and Haleema Shah, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What are you doing Saturday?
0:02.0	A lot of Americans will be watching March Madness,
0:05.0	and sorry boys, all eyes will be on the undisputed star of this year's tournament,
0:10.0	Caitlin Clark.
0:11.0	Caitlin Clark. C
0:20.3	Clark becomes the all-time leading score in major college basketball history.
0:19.2	She makes a logo three look easy.
0:21.1	The most Caitlin-Clark way to get a bucket. I mean we are talking well. three look
0:25.0	the most Caitlin Clark way to get a bucket I mean we are talking well inside the middle of the media
0:26.6	comp logo a no look behind the back pass in transition no problem
0:31.4	you know you're running the middle behind the back pass, yet it's somehow led Sydney a falter to the basket.
0:38.0	She's making Iowa feel less corning.
0:40.0	Is there anything she can't do? Maybe make women's athletics equal to men's in the eyes of the NCAA.
0:51.0	That's not on her, but we're going to talk about how college sports still
0:54.6	has some work to do on Today Explain.
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