Ex-ESPN Personality Rips Shane Gillis for ‘Insulting Black Women’ During ESPYs Monologue

While most found comedian Shane Gillis’ opening monologue at the ESPYs Wednesday night to be hilarious, one former ESPN personality did not.

Gillis made jokes about Caitlin Clark fighting black women at Waffle House, the “deleted” Epstein client list, and the general unrecognizable status of WNBA stars, among other things.

X and other social media sites immediately filled with clips of Gillis’ act as users reacted with millions of laughing emojis and praise for the comedian’s work. But not former ESPN personality Sarah Spain.

Instead, she took strong exception to Gillis’ jokes about female athletes and “insults” towards black women.

“In a year of crazy growth for women’s sports choosing an ESPYs host who doesn’t even try to make clever jokes about women athletes (he at

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