Sports Pundit Sarah Spain Slams Shane Gillis Over 'hacky' Jokes About Female Athletes

Sarah Spain, a sports media personality, took rumor pinch Shane Gillis cracking jokes astir female athletes during nan ESPY Awards connected Wednesday night.

Gillis’ jokes included a ace astir Caitlin Clark moving astatine a Waffle House erstwhile she retires from nan WNBA to proceed "fist-fighting Black women," needling erstwhile U.S. women’s shot prima Megan Rapinoe and tricking nan crowd into believing his friend’s woman was a erstwhile WNBA player.

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Shane Gillis astatine nan 2025 ESPY Awards held astatine nan Dolby Theatre connected July 16, 2025 successful Los Angeles. (Christopher Polk/ via Getty Images)

"In a twelvemonth of crazy maturation for women's sports choosing an ESPYs big who doesn't moreover effort to make clever jokes astir women athletes (he astatine slightest *attempted* for nan men) he goes pinch hacky ‘no 1 knows nan WNBA’ bits, ‘Pinoe is simply a bad time’ & many times insults Black women. COOL," Spain wrote successful a station connected X.

For what it’s worth, nan Clark joke didn’t look to spell complete good pinch nan crowd successful Los Angeles astatine nan Dolby Theatre.

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Sarah Spain attends The Annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit time 1 astatine The Lodge astatine Torrey Pines connected Oct. 18, 2021 successful La Jolla, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

Gillis had jokes astir President Donald Trump, Aaron Rodgers, Jeffrey Epstein and O.J. Simpson arsenic good passim nan night.

Even he couldn’t judge that Disney allowed him to opportunity immoderate of nan things he was saying.

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Shane Gillis' jokes were deed aliases miss pinch fans complete nan people of nan night. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)

"They fto maine do it, I don’t know," Gillis said aft tearing into Belichick and his narration pinch Jordon Hudson. "This is Disney. They allowed that ... Yeah, we should've taken that out. I had doubts going into that. That didn't activity each week."

Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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