Dear Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers…
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers are revolutionizing women’s basketball. So why are they apologizing for it? Michele, who covered the WNBA from its inception, has a message for the two superstars.
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | Today, Caitlin Clark, Paige Beckers, race, WNBA, sports, tennis, women's athletics. |
| 0:24.6 | Is race a factor in whether or not you are marketable? |
| 0:29.1 | We're going to talk about this because Paige Becker's made some comments that I respect but |
| 0:34.7 | disagree with. |
| 0:35.5 | So I respectfully disagree with them. |
| 0:37.4 | We're going to get into this. |
| 0:38.3 | In the meantime, please hit that subscribe button wherever you are, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, just hit |
| 0:44.9 | subscribe. So you never miss an episode. We'd love to have you on board. We have some great |
| 0:49.7 | interviews coming up. We have tons in the library that you're going to want to get your hands on as |
| 0:53.8 | well. |
| 1:03.6 | Today, look, I covered sports for the better part of 30, 35 years. And I covered men's sports and I covered women's sports. And as a matter of fact, when the WNBA began, I was one of the three |
| 1:09.0 | play-by-play voices. Hannah Storm and Robin Roberts were the others. |
| 1:13.9 | I worked with Reggie Miller on Lifetime Television covering the WMBA from its inception. |
| 1:19.1 | So I saw the initial year of it. And what I think is going on right now is a cultural moment |
| 1:25.0 | where white players are feeling guilty for their success. They're feeling bad |
| 1:31.4 | about it. They're apologizing for it without really understanding the history of the league |
| 1:37.4 | and maybe some realities that are actually out there. |
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