Despite Cathy Engelbert announcing her plans to retire at the end of the WNBA season, former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is still indulging in an ongoing feud with her. Freedom appeared on Fox News on Friday night and spoke about Engelbert’s decision and publicly called her out as “Coo-coo Cathy.” “Cathy Engelbert, the commissioner,...
Page S2From§Eachthe milkman edition — 6 September 2026
A congresswoman applies to run the WNBA. Its most persistent critic answers by suing over his own ejection.
Hot Mic Moment
(Mic still on.) This reporter needs the political desk down here — a sitting member of the United States House just posted a job application to a pro sports league on social media, in the same wire item confirming she lost her own primary this year to the state's Lieutenant Governor. Nobody at the Capitol's asked whether a House seat leaves time to run a league, or whether "I'm a free agent in January" is a joke or two weeks' notice. Somebody who covers Congress needs to take this off my desk.
Gushis side
This reporter has covered professional basketball since the league's founding in 1998, and Chicago just gave it a new low. On August 23rd, Sky guard Natasha Cloud tangled with former NBA journeyman Enes Kanter Freedom, who was ejected and banned for his trouble.
Five days later Freedom laid out his terms: drop his bid for the 2026 Draft entirely if the league would simply write "biological females only" into its eligibility rules. One condition, this reporter figured, everybody home for supper.
By the 31st, Freedom had sweetened the offer, calling on decathlon legend Caitlyn Jenner to referee what he termed a peace summit — one this reporter understood had already been held.
The players didn't wait around for a referee. By September 2nd, Workers World had Sky guard Cloud and teammate Sophie Cunningham standing together as trans-athlete allies, one united locker room front.
The grievance came to a head Thursday, when Freedom sued the league office over his ejection — a case this reporter expects settled by lunch.
Friday brought two headlines at once: Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota threw her hat in for the vacant commissioner's chair, and Freedom went on Fox calling the outgoing boss "Coo-coo Cathy" on her way out the door.
Trudyher side
The WNBA tipped off in 1996, sugar, not '98 — two commissioners before Engelbert ever took the job. Get the year right before you get to anything else.
It's the 2027 Draft he's threatening to skip, not '26 — read your own clip. And it's the New York Post's own reporting that has him demanding the league rewrite itself around his condition, not the other way round.
Nothing's been held, Gus. The Post has him calling for a sit-down, not walking out of one. No room, no transcript, no summit. You reported a wish as a wrap-up.
They are not standing together on this, Gus. That story has Cloud confronting Freedom and separately dinging Cunningham for telling ESPN she wants "biological" eligibility limits — the same sentence Freedom's been demanding since August 28th. Two different players, two different corners.
Federal court, and it's the Chicago Sky named on the complaint, not the league office. Fox News had it Wednesday, September 3rd. Civil-rights cases don't settle by lunch; some run years.
Put the mic down before Standards finds it, Gus — hush. But you're not wrong to want other eyes on it: The Hill has Rep. Craig, of Minnesota, posting that free-agent line days after losing her primary to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, and nobody's filed the question you just filed on a hot mic. Go take your nap. I've got the desk.
“A congresswoman loses her primary on a Tuesday and by Friday she's applying to run a whole pro league — that's not ambition, that's the exit already planned. The guy suing over getting thrown out of the building wants the league to rewrite its rulebook around his one condition, same as he's wanted since August. Nobody elected either of them to run women's basketball, and somehow they're both first in line for the job.”
“Look, all Enes wants is a level playing field and a clear written policy — that's not extreme, that's just — okay, the written policy is barring an entire class of athletes, but the point is due process, he got ejected without — well, there was an altercation, but the point is he's exercising his right to sue, which is very civic-minded of him, very litigious-but-in-a-good-way. Did I say litigious? That doesn't sound like me.”
The receipts
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn) offered herself up to replace retiring WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, who recently announced her retirement amid the league's growing popularity and recent controversies. “Hey, @WNBA, I’m a free agent in January,”
Chicago Sky player Natasha Cloud confronts right-wing transphobe Enes Kanter Freedom, Aug. 23, 2026. A great deal of media attention has been devoted to the transphobic comments of Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player Sophie Cunningham.
· Enes Kanter calls for Caitlyn Jenner to moderate ‘peace’ talks in WNBA trans scandal from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
· Enes Kanter Freedom gives WNBA one condition and ‘I’d drop everything’ from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· Enes Kanter Freedom files lawsuit against Sky following ejection, ban after altercation with Natasha Cloud from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.