U.S. Representative Angie Craig (D-Minn.) has officially expressed interest in succeeding Cathy Engelbert as commissioner of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). The announcement comes shortly after Engelbert revealed plans to retire, a departure that coincides with a period of significant growth and heightened public scrutiny for the league.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Craig took to the social media platform X to declare her availability, writing, “Hey, @WNBA, I’m a free agent in January.” The former congressional candidate is looking to leverage her political experience in the professional sports leadership space.<\/p>\n
Craig is no stranger to competitive elections, having previously lost the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota to Peggy Flanagan. Her move to join the WNBA search represents a notable pivot from electoral politics to sports administration as the league navigates its current landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig has thrown her hat in the ring to replace retiring WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, citing the league’s growing popularity amid recent controversies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[129,36,627,1299],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-congress","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}