Ryan Clark is still taking heat.
Barstool Sports honcho Dave Portnoy called out the ESPN personality after Clark publicly shut down reporter Peter Schrager in a debate regarding the NFL.
On Friday’s “Get Up,” Clark dismissed Schrager’s opinion in a live debate, telling Schrager, “That’s the non-player in you.”
That spurred plenty of backlash, including from Schrager, who told Clark not to “belittle” him. And on Monday, Portnoy got his shot in.
“Ryan Clark went after Peter Schrager from [ESPN],” Portnoy said on “Wake Up Barstool” on FS1. “They got into debate about a game and Ryan Clark, who’s one of the all-time jerks in the history of mankind — he is a race-baiter. You can say that. ‘I don’t know if we can say this.’ He is. The only time he’s in the news is when he’s picking fights and then apologizing. But he yelled at Peter Schrager basically saying, ‘Hey, shut up. You didn’t play football, you can’t talk.’
“I’ve never understood that. Like I get playing the game, but there’s a lot of morons who played the game. There’s a lot of bad GMs who played football. There’s a lot of bad coaches who played football, watching football, being around football, being around sports. So I appreciate you, [co-host Jason Williams], saying you didn’t have to play the game. Certainly not to have an opinion.”
Clark has not been shy about bringing up racial issues in sports debates, famously getting into it with Robert Griffin III and bringing up the former quarterback’s choices of partners during an argument over WNBA stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.
“If you’re RG3, when’s the last time within your household you’ve had a conversation about what she’s dealing with? You haven’t been able to do that because in both of your marriages, you’ve been married to white women,” Clark said in May. “You haven’t had opportunities to have those conversations to educate you on what they’re feeling, what black women deal with, what they’re seeing when they think of a young Angel Reese.”
Clark later apologized for the incident.
The latest incident with Schrager also resulted in an apology and apparently rising tensions behind the scenes at ESPN.
Front Office Sports later reported that Clark could be on “thin ice” with ESPN after the latest issue.
Clark and Schrager appeared on “NFL Live” together on Monday.
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