Caitlin Clark Hasn’t Broken the Women’s Basketball Scoring Record (Yet) - 2 minutes read




Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss whether court-storming should be banned for good. The Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins also joins to explain why she believes the NCAA is cheapening Caitlin Clark’s scoring records. Finally, they assess the NCAA’s latest legal trouble and what comes next.


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• Duke basketball player Kyle Filipowski got hurt when Wake Forest fans rushed the court to celebrate the Demon Deacons’ victory over the Blue Devils.


• ESPN.com on the intensifying debate over court-storming.


• Yahoo’s Jeff Eisenberg wrote that nobody should “expect college hoops’ court-storming problem to get fixed.”


• Read columnist Sally Jenkins’ work in the Washington Post and buy her latest book, The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life.


• Jenkins wrote that the NCAA has cheapened Iowa star Caitlin Clark’s scoring records by “historically gutterizing women’s basketball.”


• Clark is 33 points from breaking Lynette Woodard’s all-time major-college women’s record of 3,649 points, set before the NCAA recognized women’s sports.


• Pearl Moore scored more than 4,000 points in her small-college career in the 1970s.


• A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction barring the NCAA from enforcing its name, image, and likeness rules.


• A rundown of the extraordinary number of legal challenges the NCAA is facing.


• College football players will get $600 if they opt into the EA Sports College Football 25 video game.


Hang Up and Listen’s weekly 80-yard potato:


Joel’s 80-yard potato: The precarious existence of the NBA’s G League Ignite.


On this week’s bonus segment, Joel, Stefan, and Josh discuss their personal histories with sports video games, including Atari Skiing, Tecmo Bowl, and Madden.


Podcast production and edit by Kevin Bendis.


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