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 ). The other inductees in the 2024 Women's Basketball HOF class were RITA GAIL EASTERLING , VIOLET PALMER , SUE PHILLIPS and ROONIE SCOVEL ( Women's Basketball HOF ).
IN THE BUILDING : 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 )....Real Madrid President FLORENTINO PEREZ was in Dallas on Friday for Game 3 of the Mavericks’ first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Clippers. Mavericks G LUKA DONCIC spent his "formative years in Spain playing basketball for Real Madrid," and when he spotted Perez courtside before the game started, he "immediately walked over to embrace him" ( DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 4/26 ).
NAMES : UFC fighter CONOR MCGREGOR 's "empire is expanding" as he is "now a part-owner of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championships." Triller will "remain the majority shareholder” of the promotion while McGregor Sports and Entertainment enters as a part owner. A partnership with McGregor will “expand the reach of the BKFC with McGregor's ability to promote" and will "likely become a destination for fighters to try their hand in bare knuckle competition" ( ESPN.com, 4/28 )....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 ).
