Derek Schultz: Clark’s absence couldn’t halt the WNBA’s unstoppable momentum
What we’ve all been missing in the heated discourse about Clark is the fact that there’s even a discourse about professional women’s basketball at all.

What we’ve all been missing in the heated discourse about Clark is the fact that there’s even a discourse about professional women’s basketball at all.
The game capped off a weekend during which negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement took centerstage. Players wore warmup shirts before the game that said “Pay us what you owe us.”
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert feels optimistic that the league and the players’ union will be able to come to a new collective bargaining agreement at some point, even if it’s after the end of October deadline.
More than 25 different countries and territories were represented at the camp—which is organized by the WNBA, NBA and International Basketball Federation. Last year, 30 participants gained college scholarships.
The National Weather Service said meteorologists are tracking a line of showers and storms in western Indiana that are expected to move through the Indianapolis area between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
IBJ will be covering all things WNBA All-Star Weekend, from watch parties to the game itself.
Indiana’s Miss Basketball, Maya Makalusky, a rising freshman forward for Indiana University, was among the current and former Indiana stars who played in the Legends Game at the Indiana Convention Center.
Nine players from seven teams took part, including former Indiana Miss Basketball Skylar Diggins, former Indiana Fever Erica Wheeler and the Fever’s Lexie Hull
Indianapolis’ big midseason weekend wasn’t supposed to play out this way, with Clark patrolling the sidelines instead of impressing her home fans with more nifty passes or trademark logo 3-pointers.
Meanwhile, tickets for other weekend entertainment options are becoming increasingly difficult to come by.
IBJ reporters and editors captured images of fans enjoying WNBA entertainment zones across downtown on Friday.
The release of $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs comes after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states.
Dr. Ryan Nagy, who previously held the role, left IU Health earlier this year for a leadership position at Boston Children’s Hospital.
I am not suggesting you treat your team members like your children or that you strive to create the same type of attachments you have with your children.
The essence of social capital is the strength and quality of our relationships.
To no surprise, I’ve spent the last 30-some years attempting to learn from the mistakes of others, so that someone else’s pain could end up being my gain.
We hope you saw from the moment you got off the plane at Indianapolis International Airport how much we love basketball in Indiana.
It’s the same emotion I felt 25 years ago when the Indiana Fever launched. It seems crazy to think about now, but at the time, the idea that women had a professional basketball league seemed unreal to me.
The health care system is making big changes, down to the smallest details, for the 864 patient rooms in the academic hospital system’s massive new downtown hospital.