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Sports pundit Sarah Spain slams Shane Gillis over 'hacky' jokes about female athletes
Sarah Spain, a sports media personality, took issue with Shane Gillis cracking jokes about female athletes during the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night.Gillis jokes included a crack about Caitlin Clark working at a Waffle House when she retires from the WNBA to continue "fist-fighting Black women," needling former U.S. womens soccer star Megan Rapinoe and tricking the crowd into believing his friends wife was a former WNBA player.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"In a year of crazy growth for women's sports choosing an ESPYs host who doesn't even try to make clever jokes about women athletes (he at least *attempted* for the men) he goes with hacky no one knows the WNBA bits, Pinoe is a bad time & repeatedly insults Black women. COOL," Spain wrote in a post on X.For what its worth, the Clark joke didnt appear to go over well with the crowd in Los Angeles at the Dolby Theatre.COMEDIAN SHANE GILLIS CRACKS CAITLIN CLARK WAFFLE HOUSE JOKE AT ESPYSGillis had jokes about President Donald Trump, Aaron Rodgers, Jeffrey Epstein and O.J. Simpson as well throughout the night.Even he couldnt believe that Disney allowed him to say some of the things he was saying."They let me do it, I dont know," Gillis said after tearing into Belichick and his relationship with Jordon Hudson. "This is Disney. They allowed that ... Yeah, we should've taken that out. I had doubts going into that. That didn't work all week."Fox News Scott Thompson contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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