USA Today corrects claim about Clark's All-Star absence

USA Today issued a correction on July 24 after falsely reporting that WNBA star Caitlin Clark skipped the league's All-Star Orange Carpet event to get her hair done. The Indiana Fever guard was actually in her hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, hosting a charity dinner for her nonprofit organization, the Caitlin Clark Foundation.

The original report, published on the morning of July 24, cited an Instagram post from Clark's hairstylist as the reason for her absence from the pre-All-Star festivities in Chicago. Following swift backlash on social media and the addition of a community note on the platform X correcting the record, the publication updated its article later that day. The outlet posted a clarification stating Clark missed the event because she was attending a foundation function.

This incident marks the second controversy involving the publication and the basketball phenom within a single week. It followed intense criticism of a recent opinion column by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour. In that piece, Armour referenced the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till while discussing fan reactions to Clark's on-court behavior and the online environment surrounding other WNBA players....