Fever G Caitlin Clark was in attendance at Friday's Bucks-Pacers Round 1 NBA Playoff series Game 3 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse with some of her new Fever teammates, including C Aliyah Boston and G Erica Wheeler. Clark "literally revved up the crowd while sitting in an indy car before the game started," and she also "threw T-shirts out to fans in the stands" (N.Y. POST, 4/26).
A Golden Knights fan was "hospitalized early Thursday in Dallas after he says he was assaulted by a Dallas Stars fan outside American Airlines Center" following Game 2 of the teams' first-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. A fan "dressed in Stars apparel punched him in the face at the entrance to PNC Plaza" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 4/26).
A crowd of 11,703 was in attendance Saturday as UCLA held its "first spring showcase at the Rose Bowl since 2015." The crowd "dwarfed previous turnouts for the spring showcase at Drake Stadium" (L.A. TIMES, 4/27).
Maya Moore-Irons on Saturday was inducted into the Women's Basketball HOF as a member of the 2024 class at the Tennessee Theatre. Moore-Irons was escorted by UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and her husband, Jonathan Irons. She was inducted alongside her former Lynx teammates Seimone Augustus and Taj McWilliams-Franklin (KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL, 4/27).
Arena football made its return to Nashville on Saturday as the Nashville Kats began their third run in the city, opening the season at Municipal Auditorium in front of an announced attendance of 5,704. Though the arena was "about half-full for the game, the crowd was loud and lively." Kats play-by-play announcer Eli Gold, the longtime voice of Univ. of Alabama football, is one big name to "help usher in the new era of Kats football" (Murfreesboro DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, 4/28).
