Mary Biever

Wife, Mom, Grandma. Lifelong learner.
USI Screagle Fan Forever.
Catholic convert.

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@gatitweets @GeneralHospital Today was fun to watch!

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

Seems #GH will have a whole lotta triage going on Monday.

[Caitlin Francis @MrsCMFrancis]

How come Disney never releases old animated movies like Snow White or Lion King in the theaters in the Summer? I would pay full ticket price to take my kids and arrange all our summer plans around showtimes.
Heck, I’d pay more than reg ticket price.
Why is this not a thing?

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

Much more than just sports tourists, @FreddyLA7 and his crew brought fresh eyes to see our country for the first time and remind us all that that America is and has always been filled with beauty, tradition, and kindness. We should be thankful and proud.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

I had a taste for McDonald’s so I went,and a young girl is behind the register. The person before me was SO rude to her. When she got to me she started with “I’m sorry I’m new I’m learning” to which I dramatically said “I love it. I’m not in a rush, get your practice in girlie & take your time”. She giggled & said ok. This is somebody’s baby. Probably working her first job. I’m a mom and I would want someone to be patient & gentle with my baby. Yall we gotta be kinder to the kids fr.

[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.

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@mymomcare Caitlin has a valid claim for hostile workplace environment.

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@kinshriner @GeneralHospital I always enjoyed Brian and Scotty scenes.

[Mistress Dividend @mistressdivy]

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@ronsterd89 I use a whirlypop

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@lady_valor_07 Forging my younger sibling’s sick notes for school because my mom was too busy to write them.

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@elsathora Isn’t it part of New England?” In Indiana we pride ourselves on Hoosier Hospitality.

[Riley Nuttall @nuttallriley1]

Last silly post of the day ❤️

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@FreddyLA7 Replying from Indiana. I’m glad you’re ok. I was concerned last night and checked this morning. Half of America might have driven to the forest to find you otherwise.

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

If thousands signed to donate Caitlyn Clark $5 every time she’s assaulted during a game, would they finally stop physically attacking her to keep her from getting the money?

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@Hero_OfThe_Day @WNBA Why is this not being reviewed by a prosecutor as assault?

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@elsathora Evansville, Indiana was a major supplier helping American defense industries in W W 2. We are in the southwestern corner, and New Harmony, a small town near us has been home to two utopian experiments. It’s a historic treasure.

[😈 Xavier ✞ @RealXavier011]

The captains doing the Vikings Row!

[Mary Biever @MaryBiever]

@Joeinblack As I once told my kids the rooster who draws first blood on my kid becomes dumplings for dinner.
So let it be written. So let it be dinner. And it was.