Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes came under fire in recent weeks for comments about her expectations for Caitlin Clark as the Iowa sharpshooter appears poised to be WNBA bound.
Swoopes, in a recent episode of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas’ podcast "Gil’s Arena," pushed back on criticism that labeled her a racist for her comments and explained that "Black people can’t be racist." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Sheryl Swoopes of the Comets poses during the WNBA Finals on Sept.
5, 1999, at the Compaq Center in Houston, Texas. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) "I’m gonna say this and then I want to be done with the whole conversation," Swoopes said. "For people to come at me and say I made those comments because I’m a racist, first of all, Black people can’t be racist.
But that’s the farthest thing from my mind. "Like, I grew up in a very small West Texas town – predominantly White. My best childhood friend is White.