Clark gone completely commercial

Caitlin Clark, no longer to be confused with an amateur college student-athlete, last weekend appeared in as many TV commercials as the Manning family.

➤ College women’s basketball teams and coaches seem too eager to go the Megan Rapinoe route. That classless display of Middle Tennessee State players mocking their losing Louisville opponents with an all-in hand gesture likely inspired some to regard the winners as the losers.

➤ Reader Vinny Mooney, noting that the Yanks played Robinson Cano’s Mexican team, Diablos Rojos, acknowledged that his Spanish needs work but that Diablos Rojos “Either means Red Devils or Lazy Drug-Using Malingerer.” In any language, still can’t figure local media’s rationalization of Cano as “good in the clubhouse.”

➤ Read any good games lately? Reader David Bremer sent a screenshot from Sunday’s Texas A&M-Houston game. With play on, 10 graphics, upper and lower screen, appeared for simultaneous reading.

➤ The Brazil-England “friendly” on Fox, Saturday, was another blow to the good senses. Brazil, known the world over — and for decades — for its canary yellow and green uniforms, wore its new blue jerseys with just a slight trim of yellow and white trunks. Nike involved? Completely.

➤ Jim Spanarkel remains understated, underrated, underutilized. Sunday, after a sweet, right-handed scoop basket in Clemson-Baylor on TNT, Spanarkel was quick to tell us that the play was even better than it looked as the scorer is lefthanded.

➤ With P. Diddy, or whatever his name is this week, now in a heap of lowlife trouble, Roger Goodell doesn’t yet know if it has elevated Diddy’s status or disqualifies him from the list of Super Bowl halftime performers.