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[Andrés Moreno Gómez @andresmorenogz]

Oportunista. ¿Donde le reclamó a Petro por el mal gobierno? ¿Le hizo una carta igual? Nunca la vi.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

An Open Letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert

Dear Commissioner Engelbert,

This is no longer incompetence.

This is negligence.

You were handed the greatest gift the WNBA has ever received, and you are finding new ways to squander it.

For nearly 30 years, the WNBA has struggled to stand on its own merit. It has needed patience, protection, subsidies, excuses, advocacy, and endless goodwill. The league has been treated less like a professional sports product and more like a cause people were expected to support out of obligation.

Then Caitlin Clark arrived.

She was not just a star.

She was the lottery ticket.

She brought the audience. She brought the ratings. She brought the sold-out arenas. She brought fathers and daughters. She brought casual fans. She brought sponsors, road crowds, national television attention, and cultural relevance the WNBA had been chasing for decades.

She made people care.

And under your leadership, the WNBA has responded by acting uncomfortable with the very thing it begged the sports world to give it.

That is the failure.

You are not just mishandling Caitlin Clark.

You are mishandling the future of the league.

The WNBA wants her ratings but not her reality.

It wants her ticket sales but not her protection.

It wants her relevance but not her responsibility.

It wants the money she brings while acting annoyed by the fans she brought with her.

That is not leadership.

That is doubling down on stupid.

Let’s be very clear about what just happened.

A player made reckless, non-basketball contact to Caitlin Clark’s throat area while she was vulnerable on the floor.

The throat is not a shoulder.

It is not a hip.

It is not a forearm.

It is the airway. The larynx. The trachea. The structures that allow a person to breathe, speak, swallow, and get oxygen.

Contact to that area can become a medical emergency fast.

The WNBA got lucky.

That is the sentence.

The WNBA got lucky Caitlin Clark got up.

Because if that contact had caused a serious airway injury, a breathing emergency, a collapse, or something worse, nobody would be talking about “physicality” today.

They would be talking about how everyone saw this coming.

And they would be right.

You should have known better.

The league should have known better.

The officials should have known better.

The players should have known better.

The coaches should have known better.

And you, Commissioner, should have acted like the person responsible for making sure it never gets to that point.

Instead, the league reviewed the play, admitted enough to upgrade it, called it reckless, called it a non-basketball act, and responded with one game and a $1,000 fine.

One game.

For contact to the throat area of the most important player in your league.

That was an insult.

That was the WNBA admitting the act was dangerous, then punishing it like it was an inconvenience.

You did not send a message that player safety matters.

You sent a message that the WNBA will wait until something catastrophic happens before it grows a spine.

And if that day comes, the liability will not arrive quietly.

It will come with a very large “we told you so” attached to it.

Because fans have been telling you.

Basketball people have been telling you.

The video has been telling you.

The pattern has been telling you.

Caitlin Clark has been grabbed, bumped, shoved, poked, face-guarded, knocked down, crowded, tested, and hit while your league keeps hiding behind the word “physicality.”

Physicality is basketball.

Reckless contact is not.

Cheap shots are not.

A fist to the throat area is not.

And every time your league responds weakly, every time your officials miss it, every time your media partners minimize it, every time players mock the outrage, and every time your office stays too quiet, you are teaching the league exactly what it can get away with.

That is how standards collapse.

That is how trust dies.

That is how lawsuits are born.

You have an obligation to protect the players in your league.

Not just the players who fit the league’s preferred identity.

Not just the players the old guard approves of.

Not just the players whose fame makes everyone comfortable.

All of them.

Especially the player who has done more to grow the WNBA than anyone in its history.

This is not about Caitlin Clark needing special treatment.

This is about Caitlin Clark not receiving basic protection.

That distinction matters.

The WNBA does not protect stars because they are fragile.

Serious leagues protect stars because the product matters, player safety matters, and the future of the business matters.

The NBA understood this.

The NFL understands this.

Major sports leagues understand that when a generational athlete changes the economics of the sport, you do not allow resentment, weak officiating, cheap shots, and petty narratives to swallow the opportunity.

You are not protecting the game.

You are managing optics.

And you are not even doing that well.

The commissioner’s job is not to hide until the storm passes.

The commissioner’s job is to lead before the storm becomes a disaster.

Right now, the WNBA looks small, bitter, reactive, and unserious.

That is on you.

The officiating looks unprepared for the moment.

That is on you.

The discipline looks weak.

That is on you.

The league’s biggest star looks isolated.

That is on you.

The media narrative around Caitlin Clark has been allowed to become poisonous, dishonest, and dismissive.

That is on you.

The WNBA was handed the golden opportunity women’s basketball had been waiting on for decades, and instead of building around it with urgency, gratitude, and professionalism, the league keeps acting like Caitlin Clark is a problem it has to survive.

She is not the problem.

She is the proof of concept.

She proved the audience exists.

She proved the money is real.

She proved people will watch.

She proved women’s basketball can be mainstream, debated, emotional, commercial, and fun.

And your league is proving it may not be mature enough to handle what she proved.

That is the brutal truth.

Commissioner Engelbert, you are now on notice.

Not as a legal phrase.

As a public one.

The whole sports world can see this.

If Caitlin Clark gets seriously hurt because your league refused to establish a real standard, nobody gets to act surprised.

Nobody gets to pretend this came out of nowhere.

Nobody gets to say the warning signs were not there.

They are everywhere.

Fix the officiating.

Punish dangerous conduct like it is actually dangerous.

Stop letting players disguise reckless behavior as toughness.

Stop letting media voices gaslight fans who know exactly what they are watching.

Stop treating Caitlin Clark’s fanbase like a nuisance while cashing the checks her attention creates.

Stop hiding behind statements that say nothing.

And stop confusing silence with leadership.

The WNBA spent nearly 30 years asking to be taken seriously.

Caitlin Clark made that possible.

Now you have to decide whether you are going to protect the player who made the league bigger or keep letting the league act like she is the inconvenience.

Because if the WNBA cannot protect Caitlin Clark, it cannot be trusted with the future she brought it.

And if you continue to mishandle this, history will not remember you as the commissioner who inherited the Caitlin Clark era.

It will remember you as the commissioner who wasted it.

Sincerely,

A fan who is tired of watching the WNBA endanger its golden opportunity.

[🇺🇸Red Wave Rider🇺🇸 @coach___walker]

Ref Suspension is needed in this case!

[Momoko @Momoko_19830310]

Referee Angelica Suffren watched as Caitlin Clark was assaulted and did nothing. Where is her punishment?

[Tour Golf (not PGA Tour) @PGATUOR]

Should be closer to 100%

[Adriana Martinez @AdrianaVeterin]

@karolg @ABDELAESPRIELLA Babosa HIJUEPUTA: siga mejor mostrando el culo y cantando esa basura que canta y deje que nuestro tigre arregle este mierdero que dejó su ídolo.

[Martha R. @MarthaRincon28]

@karolg @ABDELAESPRIELLA Ud donde estaba cuando ocurrían todo estos crímenes en Colombia?

[Anthony Kross @AnthonyKross]

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Su nombre es @karolg. Estuvo congelada 4 años guardando silencio frente a las barbaridades del Narcogobierno. Hoy aparece exigiendo cosas al nuevo Presidente.

No seas hipócrita como Karo.
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[Myrna 𝕏 @GigaBeers]

Caitlin Clark takes a fist to the throat and still outplays everyone. Sophie Cunningham is the only one brave enough to call it out.

Two women with guts. One gutless league.

[The Leagues @TheseLeagues]

Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham have the top two selling WNBA jerseys.

The two make up 71% of the WNBA’s jersey sales.

[AU-D @el_audiman]

Llegamos familia ! Se la pongo o no ???

[𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 👑 𝙳𝚒𝚟𝚊™ @1776Diva]

⛹🏻‍♀️ They hate her because of her raw talent.

They hate her because she's a superstar.

They hate her because she delivers.

They hate her because she competes.

They hate her because she’s a phenomenon.

They hate her because the spotlight follows her.

They hate her because of the attention she gets.

They hate her because she’s changing the game.

They hate her because people can’t stop watching.

They hate her because she’s the biggest draw in the sport.

They hate her because every conversation comes back to her.

▫️And I dare say they hate her even more because she's White! 🏀

[La Fuente - Periodismo de Investigación @Pinvestigacion3]

▶️ ¿Cuál habría sido el rol de #JoséSerrano?
Míralo hasta el final 👀
En el episodio 7 exploramos: La teoría del caso.

🔎Analizamos el rol de cada uno de los procesados con evidencia del #CasoMetástasis, #CasoMagnicidioFV, el informe policial final de la Unidad Nacional de Investigación con la Fiscalía (UNIF) y las amenazas de muerte que llegaron tras nombrar la estructura detrás del magnicidio.

▶️ Míralo completo en YouTube: https://t.co/Vb3aR9QIAV
🎧 Escúchalo en Spotify: https://t.co/BkO7Q9kCNY

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

El embajador de Panamá en EEUU, Kevin Cabrera, denuncia lo que hemos observado los últimos días, ni China, ni Rusia, los históricos aliados del chavismo, se han aparecido para ayudar a Venezuela en esta crisis.

La única potencia en aparecer fue EEUU.

[Dante Rossi @tvc1five]

After watching the Fox News report on the Caitlin Clark incident, it became clear that the unchecked physical targeting of this talented white star is no accident. The league’s failure to protect her exposes a troubling double standard in women’s basketball.

This reveals racism against white athletes, especially women, as little more than a cynical spectacle to sell tickets and boost media viewership. It’s truly sad that society has descended to exploiting division for profit.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

“They're definitely targeting her and the league and the refs do nothing to protect her.”

Sophie Cunningham calls out the WNBA for its lax response to the consistent “targeting” of the league’s biggest star Caitlin Clark.

Cunningham said she and her teammates did not see the flagrant foul on Caitlin Clark by Alyssa Thomas in real time, but added “I promise you that if we would have seen that happen, we would have had her back.”

“Unfortunately, this type of s--- happens every single game to her, and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it.”

Thomas appeared to drive a fist into Clark’s throat after a play — but no foul was called at the time. The WNBA eventually suspended Thomas for one game and fined her for the flagrant foul.

[Kim ✝️🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒🇺🇸🕊️ @NYFLUSA]

@DX_Alphafg

[DX @DX_Alphafg]

Please keep Caitlin Clark in your prayers. 🙏 She's been receiving a lot of hate lately, especially from the Black community. Why? Because she's in a sport where most players are Black, and she's proving she's one of the best. Stay strong, Caitlin. Keep your head up.

[Rebeca Loor @rebecaloor]

Y lo volveríamos a hacer.
Quién les manda a “dar asilo” a delincuentes.

[Carlos Andrés Vera @Polificcion]

En este momento en Venezuela hay que rescatar heridos y fallecidos. Luego, amigos venezolanos, brinden la lucha final por su democracia. Ya es hora de sacar a esa tiranía. EEUU no podrá sostener a una Nelcy Rodriguez o un Diosdado Cabello si Venezuela se expresa en la calle. Columna de Marzo 2026: