CAM NEWTON believes the WNBA will quickly grow to be one of many very greatest sports activities within the USA.

The 2015 NFL MVP was talking on his 4th and 1 podcast when he declared that one of many Massive 4 leagues is a “dying sport” that can quickly be overwhelmed by girls’s basketball.

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Newton, who was a multi-sport athlete as a teenager, believes that baseball is the one set to lose its place given the brand new wave of WNBA stars resembling Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

Newton stated: “Baseball is sort of a — I hate to say — a dying sport.

“I feel baseball might be surpassed by WNBA in 20 years. Baseball isn’t being performed by People anymore.”

Considered one of his co-hosts stated “convey again steroids” however Newton responded:”I don’t learn about convey again steroids.

“I’m Cam Newton, and I don’t approve that message.

“We have a bunch of blurters, blurting out s***.”

He then added: “For those who take offense to that, it is simply the reality?

“Who’s actually listening to baseball?

“Particularly baseball in the course of the common season.”

Newton’s feedback don’t go practically as far Stephen A. Smith, who beforehand obtained into bother over his tackle Japanese celebrity Shohei Ohtani.

In 2021, the ESPN analyst had stated it was not factor for Ohtani to be the face of MLB as a result of he did not converse ok English and wanted an interpreter.

He later issued a full apology.

“Let me apologize proper now,” Smith started the prolonged rationalization.

“As I am watching issues unfold, let me say that I by no means supposed to offend ANY COMMUNITY, notably the Asian Group — and particularly SHOHEI Ohtani himself,” he wrote.

“As an African-American, I am keenly conscious of the injury stereotyping has completed to many within the nation, it ought to’ve elevated my sensitivities much more.

“Based mostly on my phrases, I failed in that regard and it is on me, and me alone!”

He went on to name Ohtani “one of many brightest stars in all of sports activities.”

Newton’s feedback additionally do not mirror the current success of MLB on TV.

Recreation 4 of the World Sequence gave the MLB their greatest viewers since 2019, drawing 16.7million viewers.

Recreation 5 then went one higher and pulled in 18.6m viewers, the best share since 2017.