But that does not mean Caitlin Clark is single-handedly growing the game.
With South Carolina having defeated Iowa, 87-75, in the NCAA women’s tournament final, these conclusions:
Caitlin Clark is a very good basketball player. But not, not hardly, the greatest of all time.
There’s a fantasy world in which people want to believe stuff. It feels good, sure. And then there is reality.
It is so, so tempting to dismiss "The Body Issue" from ESPN The Magazine as either a lame attempt to compete with Sport's Illustrated's swimsuit issue, or just so much voyeurism, or both. The clock is already running on which librarian in which city declares the whole thing an abhorrent shock to the system, and orders it banned.
That would be foolish.
To look at the photos themselves in the magazine, which goes on sale Friday, is to be reminded once again that the human body comes in an astonishing variety of different sizes and forms and features, and to realize that humankind has celebrated the gift of our bodies since the dawn of time, and it's absurd to pretend that we don't, or we shouldn't.
Here are some of the best of the best among us, among them Olympic athletes past, current and future.
Click here to read the rest at TeamUSA.org.
And here for an ESPN photo gallery.
