There was a reason that hotels used to give out free copies of USA Today to guests. That rag couldn't get people to buy it, and so they had to force it on travelers against their will. It's easy to see why, because any outlet that employs Nancy Armour deserves to go belly-up.
In a world where cracking your knuckles can get you accused of making the "white power" symbol and thus get you fired from your job, or where you can be arrested, tried, and convicted of "disorderly conduct" for uttering the N-word, Armour's status as a white liberal woman protects her from the backlash.
USA Today is standing by Armour, who was forced to issue an apology and lock down her X account after she wrote a piece that compared Caitlin Clark's demand for equal protection from, and that her opponents be punished for, fouls to the lynching of Emmett Till in Tennessee.
UPDATE: A top USA TODAY executive stood by Nancy Armour's explosive column linking some Caitlin Clark fans to white nationalists.
— Michael McCarthy (@MMcCarthyREV) July 24, 2026
"Her column is clearly labeled Opinion," she tells @FOS.https://t.co/zoAZNkmNmR
USA Today is addressing a controversial column by Nancy Armour on Wednesday about Caitlin Clark that invoked murdered Emmett Till—while linking some of Clark’s fan base to “white nationalists.”
After Armour’s column about the Indiana Fever star sparked a firestorm Thursday, Front Office Sports asked USA Today if they stood by her article.
Lark-Marie Anton, chief communications and brand officer for USA Today Co., wrote an email back to FOS stating: “Nancy is a Sports columnist, and her column is clearly labeled Opinion. Please note that the column has been updated for clarity, and Nancy has addressed the matter here (and below). We will not be commenting further.”
Anton was referring to Armour's post on Threads Thursday defending her decision to include the 14-year-old Till’s racially motivated murder in 1955 in Mississippi. However, Armour wrote she regretted not providing “appropriate context” in her piece.
Simply incredible.
When the Patriot Front showed up in Washington, D.C. on July 4, USA Today covered it and wrote a piece chiding President Trump for not condemning the group that is likely sponsored by the SPLC, because that's kind of their thing. Yet, there's not a peep from the Left about the abhorrent attempt by Armour to compare an actual lynching to fouls in the WNBA.
@USATODAY is trash.
— 🙄Erin 🤔 (@MsErinMurray) July 24, 2026
Yes, it is.
If someone can post an opinion like this, when will it be okay for someone else to post an opinion that most of the black players in the WNBA are racists?
l— Michael Moats (@MichaelRMoats) July 24, 2026
USA Today would never publish that opinion piece.
An exceedingly ill-informed, hysterical, & s***ty opinion, for which Armour should be fired.
— Big Jarhead (@big_jarhead) July 24, 2026
If Armour would have published a column criticizing Angel Reese or Alyssa Thomas, she would have been fired.
So @usatodaysports standard for sports opinion columns is if it’s “clearly labeled opinion,” they will publish anything? This entire company doesn’t just employ morons, it’s run by morons too. https://t.co/dytindvfyn
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 24, 2026
They will not, in fact, publish everything.