Commissioner Heather Mueller was repeatedly chided at a hearing Monday for not sending more inspectors to visit sites sponsored by Feeding Our Future at a time when state officials were concerned over what Mueller called the rapid and "inexplicable" growth of the nonprofit organization.
The Final Four in Minneapolis showed the sport is thriving. But the next step for developing women's basketball is adding teams to the WNBA.
Lefthanded reliever Danny Coulombe pitched for the team last year, but only got a minor league contract in the winter.
Dominance against the East has put the Wild in good playoff position in the Western Conference, but it still lacks wins against division rivals Nashville and St. Louis.
Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck had the procedure done in January and made his first public comments on the subject to the Star Tribune.