“Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.” — Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Cheryl Miller & the WNBA in 2026: “Shut up that noise!”
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Last evening, August 12, was the first time ESPN discussed in print the WNBA 2026 CBA failure to codify transgender issues. It reads, “The WNBA has no publicly available policy governing eligibility of transgender or intersex athletes. The 2026 collective bargaining agreement signed in March states that ‘only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.’ There is no further definition of a woman.”
This issue has been brought to a head by Enes Kanter now proclaiming himself/herself to be a woman and declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft. Sophie Cunningham can no longer be scapegoated on transgender policy, so the WNBA is in crisis mode.
The WTA & LPGA have specifically defined a woman and have codified testing & criteria for tour eligibility. Therefore it would be impossible for Tiger Woods to join the LPGA tour, or for Roger Federer to compete in the WTA. The WTA/LPGA would flatly tell these athletes they are welcome to compete on their tours as long as they can meet their eligibility requirements, which they won’t be able to do, so no one tries a stunt like this with these organizations. The WNBA opened themselves up to this form of ridicule by playing identity politics instead of basketball.
Yesterday, the WNBA called an emergency meeting of its board of governors, a so-called “anti-hate task force” to combat online criticism, such as Enes Kanter’s stunt. To be clear Enes Kanter isn’t serious about playing in the WNBA, he/she is forcing the WNBA to do something it hasn’t wanted to do up until now– define a woman. As soon as the WNBA does that, Enes Kanter (& the rest) will transition back into being a man.
With that said, Enes Kanter has declared himself/herself a woman and WNBA draft eligible, so we have to take him/her seriously otherwise we are being transphobic. These are the rules the WNBA plays by, which have now tangled them up. This issue can’t be resolved until WNBA & WNBAPA representatives sit down and hammer this out after the season– at the earliest.
This should have been taken care of from November 1, 2025 to March 23-24, 2026 when the WNBA CBA was being negotiated, but clearly there were no adults in the room. Only Sophie Cunningham made her thoughts known on the transgender issue at the time (February), but her comments mysteriously weren’t published until July 21, 2026, when she was made the target of an ESPN hit piece.
As explained here, this “trans rights” issue is stalking horse politics from the Democrats who want to push everything to the right. Democrats are two factions. The CIA Democrats– moderates & conservatives– represent the true power of the party. These are the ‘blue dog’ Democrats. The liberal Democrat faction represents identity politics, and is a tool– which most people recognize & despise. CIA Democrats saddle DEI Democrats with these stalking horses such as “trans rights”, handing victory to the right wing of their party, or to Trump. The idea is that any socialist agenda is always squelched, slandered & marginalized by conservative money & power.
For example, liberal Democrat Francesca Hong just lost her primary bid for Wisconsin governor to replace conservative Tony Evers who is retiring. Francesca Hong, a state lawmaker, was favored and well-ahead in all the polls for weeks before Tuesday’s primary on a program of Medicare for all, abolishing ICE and raising taxes on the rich. But brutal waves of never-ending conservative attack ads, particularly on trans men in women’s locker rooms, soured Wisconsin voters on her and she lost by a razor thin margin to a black moderate– David Crowley. Republicans joined in against Francesca Hong in this Democratic primary. That’s the right wing of both parties, using a fake left stalking horse to make sure a fake socialist candidate doesn’t win the Wisconsin gubernatorial race. Real socialism is, of course, completely blacklisted.
This is how everything the WNBA is doing ties into the bigger picture. Everything the WNBA does politically is meant to discredit the left. The WNBA is fake left to its core. No one who believes in abolishing ICE, universal health care, or raising taxes on the rich has trouble distinguishing a man from a woman, yet that’s the DEI Democratic message. Liberal Democrats won’t admit XX doesn’t equal XY for these political reasons.
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Google search: WNBA CBA trans issues
Google AI: The WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but the contract does not formally define the term “woman” or outline specific biological, genetic, or hormone criteria. Amid a surge of outside attention and political pressure regarding transgender athletes, the league’s anti-hate task force met to discuss online vitriol and eligibility. The WNBA released an official statement declaring that “there are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA” and strongly denounced “bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others”.
Me: Is WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert the one most responsible for the CBA failure to codify transgender testing & sex criteria?
Google AI: No, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert cannot be held solely or even primarily responsible.
Me: Why not? She’s the commissioner and that’s her job to handle this stuff.
Google AI: While handling major league crises is a commissioner’s job, a sports commissioner does not have the legal authority to rewrite a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on their own. Under federal labor law, changing eligibility or medical rules requires both sides to agree.
Me: What about when Cathy Engelbert presided over the 2025-26 WNBA CBA negotiations and didn’t bring this transgender issue up at all?
Google AI: During the 17-month negotiations that culminated in the landmark March 2026 CBA, neither Cathy Engelbert nor the WNBAPA introduced transgender criteria to the bargaining table because the issue was completely outside the scope of both parties’ immediate priorities at that time.
Me: That’s simply a statement of fact, not an explanation for the WNBA commissioner’s lack of leadership & foresight, correct?
Google AI: You are entirely correct.
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This “online vitriol” the WNBA, ESPN, Google AI, and all the rest are trying to combat are people such as Enes Kanter & myself. We can’t be allowed to make the WNBA look bad and expose their cynical politics. That kind of “hate & divisiveness” must be extinguished! It’s communism, pure & simple!! This riff-raff (always good for a laugh– ha ha ha) should be thrown in jail for their “bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.” How dare they express a point-of-view on the WNBA, which is always about inclusiveness, and that can’t be questioned because they say it all the time. Got that?
Bitch factor(noun): Something to never ignore or underrate. If you do, it will emasculate you– viciously.
Girls, it’s okay to get a technical foul for your team, if it’s remembered like this. Unfortunately payback is a bitch, and it came to Indiana Fever teammate Caitlin Clark the next time these two teams met– two days later. Sophie Cunningham later stated her 22-second finger point was a stupid thing to do, and that is why. DeWanna Bonner would have kicked Sophie Cunningham’s ass if they had fought is the other reason.
Disclosure: Sophie Cunningham is perhaps the most beautiful women in the WNBA. To me, Azzi Fudd (pic below) is her closest rival for that princess crown. I like Azzi Fudd as a person better, but both are basically physically irresistible to any straight man or lesbian, so there it is.
The point is the WNBA doesn’t want DeWanna Bonner messing-up Sophie Cunningham’s pretty face, or Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas throat-punching their ‘great white hope’ Caitlin Clark.
There are serious racial tensions among the WNBA players. It’s rooted in economics, meaning media attention & endorsements versus quality of basketball performance. The best WNBA players aren’t necessarily the best-known or highest-paid by endorsements. You have to be white and have a pretty face for that. This rubs many black veteran players, who aren’t as physically attractive, the wrong way. This is supposed to be about basketball, right?
Wrong. It’s about money, and beauty sells. This is why Sophie Cunningham, who averages 8.0 PPG in her career is known by so many people.
There were serious legal discussions about logoing that Sophie Cunningham finger point. It’s how to become the Jerry West of the WNBA. Bitch factor in play, no question. It’s been officially decided the WNBA will not logo or license Sophie Cunningham’s viral finger point.
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I queried Google AI, “Reasons for Angel Reese playing with a weave?”
Google AI: Court versatility: High ponytails and secure protective styles keep her hair manageable and out of her face during intense WNBA games. Fashion expression: She matches her hair colors and textures—such as blonde highlights, bright statement colors, or custom units—to pre-game outfits and high-profile fashion events.
Me: Could it possibly hinder her game?
Google AI: Generally speaking, playing with a weave or extensions does not hinder Angel Reese’s game…
But I’m specifically asking and you’re giving me generalities. Google AI does list some “Potential Minor Disadvantages” such as, “Heat retention: Thick extensions can trap extra heat around the scalp, which might feel slightly less breathable during intense conditioning. Maintenance overhead: Sweat and friction can loosen the style faster than normal, requiring frequent salon upkeep to prevent shifting or pulling on her natural hair. Ultimately, the psychological boost of feeling confident and authentic on the court far outweighs any minor physical adjustments.”
Me: How can you be authentic with fake hair?
Google AI: Being authentic means aligning your external actions with your true internal identity, not just showing what grows naturally from your body. For Angel Reese and many other women, changing their hair is a genuine expression of self.
Me: Why can’t she just love herself as she is?
Google AI: Choosing to wear weaves or extensions is an expression of self-love, not a sign of lacking it. For Angel Reese, loving herself “as she is” means embracing her freedom to change her look, celebrate her culture, and define her own beauty.
Me: Isn’t covering up your natural beauty a fundamental sign of self-loathing or lack of confidence in oneself?
Google AI: From a psychological perspective, altering your appearance is not fundamentally a sign of self-loathing or a lack of confidence. In many cases, it is actually a reflection of high self-esteem and creative confidence.
Me: Then why is she only averaging 14 PPG game in her WNBA career and considered such a disappointment as far as a wining player goes?
Google AI informs me I’m wrong, she is a winning player, etc…
Me: The Chicago Sky traded her because she didn’t help them win and brought too much drama to the team. She led that team nowhere in two seasons, before being dumped to Atlanta for draft picks. What kind of franchise gives up on a supposed game changer so quickly?
Google AI: The Chicago Sky’s decision to trade Angel Reese to the Atlanta Dream was driven by a toxic combination of building internal locker room tension, friction with organization legends, and a mutual desire to separate. While it is historically rare for a franchise to give up on a 23-year-old reigning All-Star on her rookie deal, the situation in Chicago had deteriorated past the point of a workable relationship.
Me: [!!!]
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* A weave excessively pulling on natural hair during basketball competition could lead to follicle damage & female baldness. It could create unpleasant odors & such. It could also be a high-maintenance turn-off for men who mostly prefer natural hair. Thankfully, I didn’t query Google AI on that.
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I was going to query Google AI on long fingernails affecting shooting touch, dribbling, etc, but I’ll let others try that. “Is making a fashion statement negatively impacting WNBA play?” Do we have any hard data on this? It’s never been a problem in the NBA. The problem is Google AI never played the game, and the people in control of Google AI have a well-targeted virtue-signaling agenda.
I don’t capitalize black or white when referring to skin color, or what’s referred to as “race”. There is only the human race. There is no reason to capitalize except to emphasize one over the other, in which case it’s a White racist or Black racialist– but in either case, a racist. Ignorance, fear & hate are what motivate racists.
Mon 27 Jul 2026 05:30 PM CDT
I just queried Google AI “wnba all star game tv ratings 2026”.
Google AI: Not yet available from Nielsen and ABC…
Me: [Really, this game was two days ago, they’ve had their overnights for a day now]
I can’t get Google AI to help me the way I need it to. I’m sure it’s my fault…
Brickcenter on X currently has a video clip of the 2026 WNBA All-Star game with 9.1M views. Embarrassingly bad. “Pay us what you owe us,” rings so hollow after this. The WNBA is a joke. It’s now a $280K minimum player salary, whose “All-Stars” who can’t consistently make an open lay-up. The WNBA can’t hide this.
This entire league is subsidized by the NBA. Officially the annual number is ~$10M/franchise. It’s actually $200-250M/franchise, as the WNBA gets free arena rent for all its teams courtesy of the NBA, as well as promotional & TV network tie-ins that prop-up the WNBA bottom line. Without that, the WNBA would be on life support. Instead, over-aggressive expansion has (and will further) dilute quality of play, while creating a culture of entitlement that breeds mediocrity. It’s the capitalist, upper-middle class pay-to-play culture in American sports that produces this.
But NBA support can only go so far. At some point you have to earn for yourself, otherwise you’re nothing. That’s a rule in business & sports. Last Saturday evening, I was watching the Dodgers-Mets on Fox, and between innings I switched to the WNBA All-Star game on ABC. You can’t hide an embarrassing performance like that when so many people see it. The WNBA still doesn’t want fans to know how many people tuned-in, because it was a disaster. No effort, no skill; and these women are strutting around like rockstars all weekend in the House that Michael Jordan built. That rubs basketball fans the wrong way, to say the least.
I have previously discussed the issues of hyping something that isn’t real (USMNT @ World Cup), and how that will blow back. I’ve mentioned this with the WNBA, repeatedly. People this year tuned-in to the WNBA All-Star game because Caitlin Clark was healthy enough to play. She was fine, but most of the rest were disinterested.
These women aren’t good enough to take the All-Star game off, the way the NBA does. The NBA (since Bird-Magic) is well-established, profitable, and has the respect of basketball fans everywhere. The WNBA doesn’t. Therefore WNBA All-Stars ALWAYS need to put on a good show when a stage like this is given to them. Instead, they mostly blew it off like prima donna bitches. It’s about fashion, glamour, and selling brands. That All-Star game was a soap opera more than a sporting contest, and I’ve written that about the WNBA before too. Serious sports fans look at the WNBA like WWE– scripted with no real action or beautiful skill.
Basketball is about respect and the WNBA has traded that in for the big money. Caitlin Clark is their vehicle. I’m not sure how Lisa Leslie feels about that, but I could see she wasn’t happy after that “All-Star” game ended. That’s from one of the all-time women’s basketball greats. What was supposed to be a celebration of women’s power in sports became a laughing stock. ESPN is mum on this, as they have a huge deal with the WNBA, but what happened is impossible to ignore. Fans expect a WNBA All-Star team to be able to beat a boys high school JV team, and it didn’t look like they could on Saturday night. That’s on them.
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I left the Dodgers-Mets because I don’t like watching the Dodgers win, which they did 4-3. I don’t like the Mets either. I like the Braves or Brewers as the Dodgers top competition for the 2026 NL pennant. Anyone but the Dodgers. Anyway, by the fourth quarter I was watching this WNBA All-Star game train wreck as my primary. It was fascinating. The last five minutes of the game were up-and-down the court, both teams sleepwalking in both directions just to keep the clock running. The blue team with A’ja Wilson & Caitlin Clark beat the red team. There’s nothing else you need to know. Spectators left the arena early and in numbers. By the fourth quarter good seats were seen vacated, never to be reoccupied. No one cared who won by then, just get it over with. I don’t know how you sell that to advertisers. I’d love to know, but the WNBA isn’t talking & Google AI hates me.
* A value needs to be put on the WNBA and it isn’t zero. I’d pay $5 for a courtside seat to a WNBA All-Star game played at a great venue like the United Center in Chicago. I’d bend up to $7.50, but $10 would feel like too much. That’s for a courtside seat or somewhere near, as my only interest would be celebrity watching. Obviously, other people will pay more, so I’ll let them have it. No big loss if I tell a scalper “No” to $10 on that.
Note that these WNBA All-Stars are celebrities first, athletes second. They are so into themselves, it’s really telling. Anyone who paid more than $10 to sit anywhere at this game paid too much. WNBA team payrolls have jumped from $1.5M to $7M annually with the new CBA. But the lack of quality in WNBA play is turning sports fans & other viewers off. The 2026 WNBA All-Star game will live in infamy as a watershed example of a phony (or group of phonies) being exposed.
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The biggest financial bubbles today are in AI, crypto & the WNBA. AI over-expansion without profitability or serious use value has been exposed above (and by many others) as fraud & bad politics with a cost in the trillions, perhaps tens of trillions of dollars. Crypto fraud is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no more than a few trillion dollars. WNBA franchise expansion hype is measured in the billions of dollars. These are different tiers of fraud, but all are bound up in the same corrupt politics.
Tue 28 Jul 2026 02:42 PM CDT
The WNBA starts back up tonight. Who cares, right? “Not enough rest,” was another WNBA excuse that was floated as a media smokescreen after Saturday night. I’ll discuss that below.
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has said nothing serious concerning that legendary All-Star game disasterpiece. Basketball fans saw it, or at least have seen the embarrassing video clips which have gone viral. As a rule in sports, the commissioner is supposed to be the spokesperson for the league– meaning it’s Cathy Engelbert’s job to answer the tough questions to the media & fans. Especially when this kind of shit happens. That’s what she’s paid for, and she refuses to do that, and it’s far from the first time.
A few weeks back, Cathy Engelbert skipped the Dan Patrick show after booking it and being at his event, all because she didn’t want to answer any tough questions from a legitimate sports reporter. This is ESPN that Cathy Engelbert is ducking. Imagine if real everyday fans, who earn far less than the current WNBA minimum player salary, were allowed to pose media questions. That would be too much!
It’s this never-ending chickenshit stuff from the WNBA that really flips the anger switch for sports fans. People watch sports to be entertained and take a diversion from their lives. When Democratic Party DEI narratives become the storyline, it isn’t a sport anymore. Instead it’s part WWE, part political rally, and part soap opera. That’s the best way to describe the WNBA. Figuring it out isn’t easy, and that’s also by design.
As far as the not-enough-rest-for-an-All-Star-game excuse goes, the WNBA plays 44 games over a 5-month span, with compressed playoffs as compared to the NBA, which has an 82-game regular season. November to June for the best NBA teams. In contrast, the WNBA regular season will expand to 50 games in 2027 per the new CBA, on which the ink is barely dry, yet with which many WNBA players already seem dissatisfied. The WNBAPA was given everything they lobbied for– huge pay increases, better travel & accommodations, etc, and this is how their best players repay their own deal to their fans– by sleepwalking through their biggest & most-important All-Star game ever.
No quarter to the WNBA. That’s my battle cry. This is ideological warfare on their part, sponsored by the Democrats, and everyone knows it. The WNBA will reap the whirlwind for disrespecting a much greater force– the game itself. That’s where the entire WNBA, past & present, find themselves after this blatant disrespect, some might say outright contempt, they’ve shown towards the game of basketball.
