Sports expert Sarah Spain hits Shane Gillis on ‘haky’ jokes on female athletes

Sarah Spain, a personality of the sports media, disagreed with Shane Gillis making jokes on female athletes during the ESPY awards on Wednesday night.

Gillis jokes included a crack on Caitlin Clark working in a Waffle house when he retires from the WNBA to continue “black women fighting against the punch,” introducing the former women’s soccer star in the United States, Megan Rapinoe, and deceives the crowd to believe that his friend’s wife was a former WNBA player.

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Shane Gillis at the 2025 ESPy Awards held at the Dolby Theater on July 16, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Christopher Polk/ via getty images)

“In a year of crazy growth for women’s sports choosing a host of Espys who does not even try to make smart jokes about female athletes (at least * tried * for men) he goes with Hankky ‘nobody knows the’ Bits of WNBA, ‘Pinoe is a bad moment’ and repeatedly insults black women. Cool,” Spain wrote in an X post.

From what is worth, Clark’s joke did not seem to go well with the crowd in Los Angeles at the Dolby Theater.

Comedian Shane Gillis Grieta Caitlin Clark Waffle House jokes in Espys

Sarah Spain attends the annual ESPNW: Women + Sports Summit Day 1 in The Lodge At Torrey Pins on October 18, 2021 in La Jolla, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty images)

Gillis had jokes about President Donald Trump, Aaron Rodgers, Jeffrey Epstein and OJ Simpson also throughout the night.

He could not even believe that Disney would allow him to say some of the things he was saying.

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Shane Gillis jokes were unpredictable with fans during the night. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media through Getty Images)

“They let me do it, I don’t know,” Gillis said after destroying Belichick and his relationship with Jordon Hudson. “This is Disney. They allowed … yes, we should have taken that out. I had doubts on that. That didn’t work all week.”

Scott Thompson News contributed to this report.

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