Angel Reese

Louisiana State University's Angel Reese was described as “classless” by sports fans who took issue with her taunting Iowa star player Caitlin Clark when their ...

Jackson](https://twitter.com/SamuelLJackson/status/1642765426063966210), and much of Black Twitter to rally in Reese’s defense against raging criticisms she was receiving. Just days prior, Clark’s “clap backs” were compiled for an Smith also weighed in with his assessment of the situation after giving praise to Clark but also noting that she had “instigated” the type of taunting displayed on Sunday. Reese told reporters at the press conference that the game was “bigger” than her and made sure to highlight the differences in reception. I’m too ghetto. I’m too hood.

FS1 personality Shannon Sharpe has labeled the coverage of Angel Reese's taunting as 'not about anything other than race.' Sharpe took aim at the difference ...

That's the story.' That's the inconsistency. 'Trash talk is a part of the game. The other is condemned. The Maryland transfer [Iowa](/news/iowa/index.html) star Clark in the [final throes of the national title game, which the Tigers won comfortably. Angela Reese does the same gestured it's considered "classless." And they were talking about nothing but her greatness. This is not about anything other than race. when Caitlin Clark did the John Cena it was considered "swag". it's so obvious what this is. Conversely to Clark, Reese repeatedly used the gesture in the sequence, moving around the court in an attempt to goad Clark as opposed to the once-off motion by the Naismith Player of the Year in the previous game.

Angel Reese did the “you can't see me” hand wave to Caitlin Clark, sparking outrage online. Clark previously did the same move. The anger, with people ...

[classless](https://twitter.com/OrtizKicks/status/1642648288280162305)” and an “ [idiot](https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1642861230221041664),” among [other things](https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1642648843010428931). [for celebrating their 2013 World Cup victory too much?](https://www.today.com/news/us-team-criticized-celebrating-during-women-s-world-cup-win-t156130) Or [all the times](https://twitter.com/AgentTinsley/status/1038619677688135686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1038620452615118848%7Ctwgr%5E1aaa94c55b95aac105962c7bffac4fbccbc06f11%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2018%2F09%2Fyes-serena-williams-was-treated-unfairly-in-us-open-loss) Serena Williams was held to a different, higher standard by umpires, opposing players, and the public for being angry about certain calls? Sports commentator Emmanuel Acho put together [a handy collection](https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status/1642746824896434177) of just some of the times men playing sports taunt one another. Dog whistles like “classless” and “disrespectful” have long been used to put down and contain Black women’s experiences and joy. In his eyes, the problem is that Reese and Clark “can be classless winners who are willing to overshadow their own team’s victory.” Reese added a little flair, pointing to her ring finger, effectively saying she was getting the championship ring.

This is classless. Angel Reese is only 20, so she's still young, but taunting Caitlin Clark like this shows a pure lack of class. Win with class, lose with ...

It was bigger than me. It was bigger than me tonight. And with the exposure has come extreme criticism from many online. Immediately after the Tigers’ championship win, basketball fans on social media began voicing their displeasure with the 20-year-old star's actions. I'm too ghetto. I'm too hood.

LSU's Angel Reese waved her hand in front of her face while staring down Caitlin Clark, then pointed toward her finger as if to say a ring was coming while ...

Please be mindful when you tag and/or send me DMs that your intent is to me not my daughter,' she wrote on Twitter earlier this week. She also holds the SEC single-season record for double-doubles with 32. I am Angel Reese, the mom, not the LSUwbb player. Angel (seen as a kid) grew up in a town near Baltimore, Maryland, called Randallstown. All the credit in the world to LSU. 'I was just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position,' said Clark, who scored 30 points. [The gestures late in the Tigers' 102-85 victory](/sport/college-basketball/article-11931009/LSU-sets-NCAA-womens-final-record-59-half-points-vs-Iowa.html) in the NCAA championship game Sunday lit up social media, with comments supporting the 'Bayou Barbie' for trash talk that's just part of the game and condemning her for lacking grace in victory. Angel grew up in a town near Baltimore, Maryland, called Randallstown. 'I came from Maryland and I succeeded at Maryland, but I wanted more. 'And then I don't let my defenders kind of box me out.' What are you going to say now?' 'Twitter can say what Twitter can say,' Reese said.

The racist double standards Black women athletes are forced to endure are why LSU basketball star Angel Reese doesn't need to apologize to Iowa's Caitlin ...

But the reactions to Clark’s use of the “you can’t see me gesture” on March 26 were drastically different. [shared a Tweet calling](https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1642648843010428931?s=20) Reese a “classless piece of shit,” while sports commentator Keith Olbermann [quote tweeted](https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1642649593140637706?s=20) a video of Reese with the remark: “What a f*cking idiot.” Reese followed up by mimicking Iowa guard

Some took to social media to criticize Reese for taunting Iowa guard Caitlin Clark during the NCAA women's final.

I'm looking forward to celebrating and the next season." "And I'm happy. And that's what I did it for tonight.

On Sunday, April 2, Louisiana State University defeated the University of Iowa and won the NCAA women's college basketball national championship — an ...

[Reese said](https://twitter.com/sportingnews/status/1642671282767507456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1642671282767507456%7Ctwgr%5E24a8f3e617aa084ceef5b9c7ddf1903114f14582%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F04%2F03%2F1167704651%2Fangel-reese-caitlin-clark-you-cant-see-me-gesture), explaining that she may have gotten caught up in the moment. Further, Clark did all this while leading her team to a top-10 ranking and a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament — her performance and statistics won her the [AP Player of the Year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LytIcY7829g) honors prior to the national championship. Keith Olbermann, a former ESPN SportsCenter anchor and MSNBC commentator, called Reese a “ [fucking idiot](https://twitter.com/keitholbermann/status/1642649593140637706?s=46&t=gVDCG-WIWRQsuSYMwZv8Xg).” Dave Portnoy, owner of Barstool Sports, echoed, calling Reese a “ [classless piece of shit](https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1642648843010428931?s=20).” [grown men](https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1642861230221041664) especially — believe there’s no room for trash talk in women’s sports because women are perceived to be better, gentler, and above the fray. Meanwhile, trash talking and vitriol are seen as an established part of [men’s](https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/29/living/college-football-rivalries/index.html) sports and its [most compelling rivalries](https://www.si.com/nba/lakers/news/lakers-magic-johnsons-former-agent-recounts-tales-of-larry-bird-trash-talk-bw2021). When she hits [a “logo” three](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/sports/ncaabasketball/caitlin-clark-iowa-shooting.html) — nailing a basket from inside Michigan’s giant mid-court M, for example — she knows that’s going into the game’s highlight reel. [averaged](https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4433403/caitlin-clark) 27.8 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game, and 8.6 assists per game while shooting at a 47.3 percent clip through the 2022-2023 season. However, this outpouring of concern about how women athletes should behave when they win wasn’t nearly as much of an issue when Clark, who is white, was steamrolling, [trash talking](https://www.hawkcentral.com/videos/sports/college/iowa/basketball-women/2023/04/01/caitlin-clark-iowa-womens-basketball-trash-talk/11584560002/), and [mocking](https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wwe-legend-john-cena-approves-iowas-caitlin-clark-you-cant-see-me-taunt-historic-win-over-louisville) the competition. [funding and facilities](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/the-video-that-changed-the-ncaa.html). [lack of “class”](https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1642649737072463872) and how Reese, who is Black, should have conducted herself in the face of imminent victory. To those familiar with hand gestures in basketball, this was Reese’s way of telling Clark that her team won — that LSU would be getting that championship ring — and that Reese herself was unguardable. [pointed at her ring finger ](https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1642646161659154432)and waved her own hand in front her face, in the direction of Caitlin Clark, the best player on Iowa’s team.

LSU's Angel Reese, right, reacts in front of Iowa's Caitlin Clark during the NCAA Women's Final Four championship basketball game on Sunday. (Tony Gutierrez / ...

It‘s also an exhibit of the very sexism that has kept women’s sports second to men’s. Those who argue against wage parity or women’s sports stadiums inevitably claim that women athletes should receive less because they do not generate the kind of ratings and profit that the men do. Displays of anger, ambition, frustration and pride, player-to-player beefs, unlikely friendships and long-running rivalries humanize the game. It isn’t just the fundamental unfairness of such examples that’s infuriating. Well, the first way to ensure women’s games aren’t as intense and entertaining is to publicly shame any woman who reveals the same kind of emotions or engages in the same kind of behavior that make men’s games so intense and entertaining. [and widely viewed](https://www.si.com/college/2023/04/01/espn-reveals-womens-final-four-viewership-numbers) Final Four games in its history. too ghetto” to fit into women’s college basketball. Something victorious male soccer players did regularly? We’re not monkeys. We’re not thugs. She has done it herself. “We’re not bar fighters.

The NCAA tournament was a lesson in how far women's sports has come, yet the reaction to LSU's Angel Reese and how she celebrated her victory shows how far ...

[the men’s final](https://thegist.createsend1.com/t/t-l-fkhhhld-jtkdjldlid-o/) and [last weekend’s Taylor Swift concert](https://thegist.createsend1.com/t/t-l-fkhhhld-jtkdjldlid-b/) in large part because of the personality of players like Clark and Reese. In her mind, the reason for that framing is that, like LSU, her team is predominantly and unapologetically Black. It sure wasn’t when Caitlin Clark did it, so don’t make it more than elite competition when it’s Angel Reese cutting down the nets. [ring finger](https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/steph-curry-epically-points-ring-finger-after-huge-3-pointer-game-6) to punctuate his most recent championship he made the [“night-night”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89vASRXKzA) celebration a trend in sports around the [world](https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nba/news/stephen-curry-night-night-celebration/tyqg8c5hxllaohrgrl983tv9). In the Elite Eight, she not only flashed the “you can’t see me” gesture to Hailey Van Lith, she also told her to [shut up](https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1640782853549215744). This is who Reese is and always has been, whether Clark was in her vicinity or not. People are asking Reese to be modest at the height of her achievement. An elite athlete in her 20s talking trash is certainly not one of them. Reese was sending a message to more than just Clark. Female athletes work just as hard, so they should be able to turn up just as much. Sadly, race had been a factor in the proceedings well before the final buzzer. Anecdotally many of those expressing outrage with Reese online were men.

Why is the sports world is in a conniption over some trash talk clap back, instead of celebrating what was a coming of age event for NCAA women's ...

“Twitter is going to go on a rage every time, and I’m happy. So I’m looking forward to celebrating in the next season.” Nobody was trash talking the other Iowa players. I’m super happy and excited. “All you can do is hold your head high, be proud of what you did, and all the credit in the world to LSU,” Clark said after the game. Over hyped and excited, I followed with “on you” to my defender. That’s the crazy part. I’m too ghetto. I’m too hood. By all accounts, Clark had no problem with Reese’s antics. “They were tremendous, they deserve it. 1 South Carolina, sparking a ESPN feature,

The Tigers' star had an honest response to the first lady's suggestion.

LSU Tigers star Angel Reese isn't a fan of first lady Jill Biden's idea for the Iowa Hawkeyes to receive a White House invite.

So, we hope LSU will come,” she said while speaking at the Colorado state capital in Denver. ["you can't see me" gesture from Reese to Caitlin Clark](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/lsus-angel-reese-does-you-cant-see-me-gesture-iowas-caitlin-clark) inside the White House? [LSU's thrilling national championship game win](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/lsu-beats-iowa-102-85-programs-first-ever-national-championship) over Iowa in Dallas on Sunday, the first lady said she would [like to have the runner-up Hawkeyes come to the White House](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/jill-biden-wants-champions-lsu-and-iowa-at-white-house/) in addition to the champion Tigers.

White House visits are traditionally for champions. Iowa is not a champion. LSU is. So when First Lady Jill Biden suggested on Monday that the White House ...

LSU Tigers star Angel Reese isn't a fan of first lady Jill Biden's idea for the Iowa Hawkeyes to also receive a White House invite.

So, we hope LSU will come,” she said while speaking at the Colorado state capital in Denver. [LSU's thrilling national championship game win](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/lsu-beats-iowa-102-85-programs-first-ever-national-championship?chrcontext=WMAQ) over Iowa in Dallas on Sunday, the first lady said she would [like to have the runner-up Hawkeyes come to the White House](/news/sports/jill-biden-wants-champions-lsu-and-iowa-at-white-house/) in addition to the champion Tigers. [Angel Reese reacts to Jill Biden wanting Iowa to visit White House](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/lsus-angel-reese-reacts-jill-biden-wanting-iowa-visit-white-house?cid=Yahoo&partner=ya4nbcs&chrcontext=WMAQ) originally appeared on [NBC Sports Chicago](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago?cid=MSN&chrcontext=WMAQ)

LSU star Angel Reese tweeted a link to a story on Jill Biden's remarks on Monday. " A JOKE," she wrote, along with three rolling-on-floor-laughing emojis.

have come since Title IX in 1972 gave women equal rights in sports at schools that receive federal funding. Reese was unapologetic. "But, you know, I'm going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game." So, we hope LSU will come," she said. If she saw Reese's gestures, Clark didn't seem concerned about them. She watched LSU's 102-85 victory over Iowa from the stands on Sunday night.

First Lady Jill Biden said on Monday that she's hoping Caitlin Clark and the Iowa women's basketball team are invited alongside national champions LSU when…

"I don't fit in the box that you all want me to be in. It was her 34th double-double of the season, I was just in my bag, in my moment." It was bigger than me tonight." "So this is for the girls that look like me, that want to speak up on what they believe in. While champions across various sports are almost always invited to visit the White House, the losing team in the championship game is never afforded that honor.

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Michael Smith on the latest episode of "Good Word with Goodwill” on the Ball Don't Lie ...

LSU star Angel Reese called a suggestion from first lady Jill Biden that they might invite both LSU and Iowa's women's basketball teams to the White House ...

“LSU has won their first NCAA women’s Basketball Championship Title with a record-breaking score of 102-85. Runner-ups don’t get invited to the White House. Reese tweeted a link to the story which included Biden’s comments, calling it “A JOKE” along with three rolling-on-floor-laughing emojis. Sunday’s national championship drew a record-breaking average of 9.9 million viewers, according to sports broadcaster ESPN. She was named the women’s NCAA tournament’s Most Outstanding Player as a result of her standout performances. So, we hope LSU will come but, you know, I’m going to tell Joe [Biden] I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”

Find out more about LSU's star sophomore forward, including why she decided to make the move from Maryland to the Lady Tigers.

“A coach to push me to get me to the next level.” 2 player nationally in her class. [nola.com](https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/lsus-angel-reese-tells-why-she-wears-one-legging-in-games/article_cac3157a-cb40-11ed-8d51-8351af4345fa.html) about the WNBA stars she looks up to, and why she wears one legging to hide a scar following a right foot fracture. Still, the rising star says competing in the ‘W’ is an aspiration, and it was one of the reasons she decided to make the move from Maryland to LSU last year. [2022-23 women’s basketball stat leaders](https://www.espn.co.uk/womens-college-basketball/stats), many have started to ask when, rather than if, Reese will go to the WNBA. [Dawn Staley's](https://olympics.com/en/athletes/dawn-staley) South Carolina and Tennessee, Reese chose LSU after visiting the campus. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/sports/ncaabasketball/lsu-tigers-angel-reese.html), discussing the move. [basketball](https://olympics.com/en/sports/basketball/) tournament finished with a bang as Louisiana State University (LSU) defeated the Caitlin Clark-led Iowa Hawkeyes [102-85](https://olympics.com/en/news/lsu-beat-iowa-for-first-womens-ncaa-basketball-title) to claim a first championship. She led the team to three consecutive Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland (IAAM) championships and two conference titles, and played in the McDonald’s All-American Game. [34th double-double](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-women/d1/current/individual/554) in 2023, the most achieved by any woman in a single NCAA basketball season. [2023 NCAA men's basketball champion](https://olympics.com/en/news/uconn-wins-fifth-mens-basketball-ncaa-title) Jordan Hawkins of the UConn Huskies is Reese's cousin via her father. The engine behind the victory for LSU was 20-year-old Angel Reese who put up a game-high 10 rebounds and 15 points to lock in her

Angel Reese of LSU (left) and her cousin, Jordan Hawkins, of the Connecticut Huskies. NCAA Photos/Getty Images.

“I just try to contribute in any way I can and if that’s one of them, then so be it,” he told CNN. “It means a lot to be around him every day.” All of UConn’s titles have come since 1999 with the most recent before Monday occurring in 2014. The cookout gone be lit.” “We saw that as amazing … I’m going to see her in Maryland soon.

LSU star Angel Reese made her position clear about first lady Jill Biden breaking with tradition and suggesting both teams from the NCAA women's basketball ...

"I don’t fit in the box that y'all want me to be in," Reese said in the press conference after the game. She trash-talks on the court, but she doesn’t cross, really, the line of vulgarity." "I’m too hood, I’m too ghetto, y'all told me that all year. Why are we trying to change it now?" Runner-ups don’t get invited to the White House. "That is a bad suggestion.

LSU Tigers star Angel Reese became the first member of her family to win the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. Connecticut Huskies guard Jordan Hawkins joined his ...

If not them, then maybe one of their brothers. While Hawkins didn't have a trending moment of his own, he did drain a clutch three down the final stretch, giving him over 20 made triples in the tournament. [2023 NCAA Tournament](https://www.marca.com/en/ncaa/2023/04/04/642b91ae268e3ed73c8b466b.html). [taste of her own medicine](https://www.marca.com/en/ncaa/2023/04/03/642a1e58ca474187568b45a0.html) in the final seconds of the March Madness final. [defeated the San Diego State Aztecs](https://www.marca.com/en/ncaa/2023/04/04/642b4d7a5aeb520026b82e59-directo.html). San Diego State in NCAA Championship: Final score and full game highlights from March Madness final](https://www.marca.com/en/ncaa/2023/04/04/642b4d7a5aeb520026b82e59-directo.html)

LSU's victory over Iowa on Sunday was the most viewed women's national championship game in history, and yet much of the discussion has been about the ...

Both Angel Reese and and Caitlin Clark now boast far more social media followers than any of the players in the men's tournament.

[record](https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2023/lsu-championship-march-madness-records-ratings-viewership-1234718192/)—men’s and women’s—191 points during the tournament, it was Reese who added more followers on Instagram. Reese’s dominance continued on Twitter, too, where she was mentioned half a million times over the weekend, [according](https://twitter.com/CodyWorsham/status/1642947111032590336?s=20) to LSU associate AD Cody Worsham, with a reach of 3.84 billion views. She had a message to potential endorsers: “The price just went up.” Reese’s 17 partnerships, including deals with Bose and McDonald’s, are often cited as the most in college basketball. UConn’s most popular posting player, Andre Jackson, was still fighting his way towards 75,000 Instagram followers after the Huskies lifted their own trophy Monday night. Already a [social media](https://www.sportico.com/t/social-media/) influencer with roughly 450,000 followers before the tournament, she eclipsed the 1 million mark on Monday.

LSU's Angel Reese to UConn's Jordan Hawkins, who are cousins, both won NCAA college basketball championships with their respective teams.

It's coming to me though." I love coach Hurley to death. The whole family is going to be there." where her," Hawkins said. That's pretty cool." I know it's going to be crazy.

After Jill Biden made remarks that she wanted to invite both championship-winning LSU and Iowa, the losing team, to the White House, social media pushed ...

The LSU Tigers defeated Iowa 102–85 to win their first NCAA tournament title. It was the most-viewed NCAA women's basketball game on record, according to ESPN, ...

“Black women are the most loyal constituency of the Democratic Party,” he added. The privilege of being invited to the White House is one typically reserved for the title winners. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come too, because they played such a good game.” “I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House; we always do. I’m too ghetto. I’m too hood.

LSU's star player did a little trash talking. So what? She's helped vault women's college basketball into mainstream culture. Are you not entertained?

For now, though, Reese holds the crown, and with it, the last word in the dialogue until further notice. She crashes the boards and bangs her body around the paint while rocking eyelash extensions, a French manicure, a compression stocking over one leg, and a headband wrapped around a wig that hangs to her waist. Asked about it later in a postgame interview, Reese said, “Caitlin Clark is a hell of a player for sure, but I don’t take disrespect lightly.” Reese didn’t say that Clark had disrespected her. Basketball coaches often call rebounding the “dirty work” of the game, the invisible labor more likely to elicit awe from teammates watching film than cheers from stadium crowds. She had jawed with her Texas opponents during her previous game, and in the handshake line afterward, one of them appeared to say to her, “Call me a pussy again, bitch, I’mma beat your ass.” Van Lith continued running her mouth in the game against Iowa. In the quarterfinals, she faced off against Louisville’s star guard, Hailey Van Lith, a third-year player who had led her team to the Final Four in 2022. Playing at her highest level, toppling the best team in the country, living up to the hype of her stature, Clark seemed on the road to coronation. Those reflexively hating on Reese in her moment of glory were telling on themselves, so consumed by subconscious prejudice that they missed out on the chance to savor the dramatic crescendo of an exhilarating tournament that far exceeded the men’s version in narrative drama and She has been in the national spotlight for so long that even casual sports fans have witnessed her break records, make jokes in postgame interviews, and hold back tears after devastating losses. Maybe one day, the WNBA lowers its age requirement — currently 22 years old or four years removed from high school — and the most talented women will leave for the pros after a single year of college, but for now, their extended time on campus blooms the storylines and rivalries that heighten a sport’s drama. Since then, neither has won a title, and five different teams have won the last five tournaments. At her postgame press conference on Sunday, she alluded to the double standard.

Black women like Angel Reese and Angela Bassett are held to unfair standards, called unprofessional, and treated disrespectfully for their public actions.

[endured denigration and public humiliation](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/republican-attacks-ketanji-brown-jackson) as part of the US Supreme Court's hearing process to show her worthiness. Standards of professionalism aren't applied equally to all, and when any person of color deviates from the status quo, even to challenge workplace injustice, they are often labeled “unprofessional.” This especially impacts Black women, who are often devalued in the workplace and [report feeling the least respected](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/333194/black-women-workplace.aspx). Critics condemned Reese for bad sportsmanship, but her opponent, Clark, [was not criticized when she made the exact same gesture recently](https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167704651/angel-reese-caitlin-clark-you-cant-see-me-gesture). [applies to everyone, “is used to widely police and regulate people of color in various ways including hair, tone, and food scents,”](https://www.uclalawreview.org/professionalism-as-a-racial-construct/) as Leah put it in an essay for the UCLA Law Review. While navigating anti-Blackness in the workplace, we’ve both been told — as many Black professionals have been — to “play the game.” But the game, which is rigged with limited boxes, stereotypes, and implicit biases beyond our control, is designed for us to lose. We are two Black women lawyers who walk the halls of the court system with the fire of our authenticity, passion, and innovation, only to have our flames continually doused by misogynoir, humiliation, and indignity.

Clark, who also taunted players during Iowa's NCAA Tournament run, came to the defense of Reese.

That's what draws it to the pro level, to the college level, to the high school level." I think more and more people, as they turn on the game, are appreciating it for what it is. I don't think she should be criticized, like I said. "I don't think Angel should be criticized at all," Clark said. I think that's what it's always been. "I think men have always had trash talk.