Editor's Notebook

All she’s done since she entered the WNBA is garner fan support, hike salaries and get teams better travel accommodations.

She now has fans even talking about the WNBA who weren’t talking about the league before.

She sells out seats at stadiums.

Yet Caitlin Clark not only gets no respect. She gets punched and kicked and jabbed, all while referees seem to turn the other cheek.

The league commissioner and the referees should be charged with crimes for her literally getting assaulted while attempting to play basketball.

They leave her off the Olympic roster and off a commemorative 30th-anniversary poster.

The celebratory graphic features 30 players, but its release sparked significant online confusion and fan backlash due to the absence of the league’s most high-profile star.

Apparently someone with Clark’s background can’t be officially accepted as the face of the league.

So far, she can’t even be accepted as a player, either.

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A tip of the hat to the City of Purcell for the fireworks display put on for the public last Saturday night at the Purcell Lake.

There were numerous superlatives about the entire event and especially the fireworks display.