Gregg Doyel Does An Impressive Ron Burgundy In Sorry Caitlin Clark Apology Column

Long before Gregg Doyel developed what seems like a cringe crush on Caitlin Clark, he became a great sports columnist at the Charlotte Observer in the 1990s, later at CBSSports.com and, since 2014, at the Indianapolis Star.

Doyel, who is in his mid-50s and a father of two sons, won the Associated Press Sports Editors No. 1 columnist in the nation in 2014, ‘17, ’19 and '22. He has won 16 top 10 awards from APSE - the Oscars of sports writing - since 2007 with eight of those for columns. 

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It was Doyel who was not afraid to ask LeBron James a tough and extremely timely and pertinent question during the 2011 NBA Finals between James' Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks. Many other writers, at the time, were fawning over the still budding LeBron before any of his four championships.

"Three games in a row for you in the fourth quarter - not much," Doyel began to LeBron after game three of the finals with Miami up two games to one. "That's moments when superstars become superstars. Seems like you're almost shrinking from it. What's going on?"

LeBron James had a more pertinent exchange with columnist Gregg Doyel during the 2011 NBA Finals than Caitlin Clark did Wednesday at a press conference. (Getty Images)

Wow. That proved to be as pertinent a question as OutKick's Dan Zaksheske's two to LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey about the national anthem and South Carolina women's coach Dawn Staley about men as transgenders entering the women's game during the NCAA Tournament recently. Particularly since Miami and LeBron had just won again. Doyel also showed a tremendous amount of guts, particularly since LeBron's team had just won.

"You should just