Dave Portnoy called for the firing of a USA Today columnist who compared WNBA star Caitlin Clark to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, arguing the writer belongs in an "insane asylum" for the piece. And people who say, 'Hey, Dave, that's too far' — that's nothing compared to what she just wrote," he later added. The writer then said the WNBA's All-Star Game was being held in Chicago, where Emmett Till lived. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after a White woman accused him of making advances toward her. To somehow equate the civil rights movement and Caitlin Clark arguing whether she got fouled or not," Portnoy said.