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Column: Angel Reese isn’t harming women’s sports. Her pearl-clutching critics are

Two women's college basketball stars, one pointing at her ring finger

The biggest obstacle women’s sports faces in this country is not a lack of talent, athletic stamina or even public interest.

It’s pearls.

As in men clutching theirs every time a female sports star has the temerity to act like one.

This weekend, women’s college basketball had three of the most exciting and widely viewed Final Four games in its history. Two major upsets — LSU’s defeat of Virginia Tech and Iowa’s win over South Carolina — led to a final in which sophomore Angel Reese and the deep bench of LSU overcame the phenomenal star power of Iowa junior Caitlin Clark and the team she has led to so many victories.