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  Sports The TV Numbers Are Breaking Records. Everyone Is Pretending This Is A Surprise. It Is Not A Surprise. Caitlin Clark's second WNBA season opened to record attendance and broadcast numbers. Indiana Fever games are selling out arenas that haven't sold out in years. Analysts are "shocked." The analysts were also "shocked" last year. At some point the shock should become expectation. We are not there yet. By Buzzer Beater Jones , Satirz Sports  |  May 11, 2026 INDIANAPOLIS — The 2026 WNBA season opened this week. The Indiana Fever's first home game sold out Gainbridge Fieldhouse — a 17,000 seat arena — for the second consecutive year. The league's national TV numbers for opening week are up 47% year over year. Merchandise sales broke records before the season started. Three other franchises have reported sellouts or near-sellouts on the strength of their matchups against Fever road games. Sponsors who had never previously considered WNBA partners...

  Sports The Oklahoma City Thunder. The Cleveland Cavaliers. The Minnesota Timberwolves. And Tyrese Haliburton's Indiana Pacers, who are here again, somehow, against all reasonable expectations, playing good basketball in a building full of people who cannot believe it either. By Buzzer Beater Jones   |  May 11, 2026  |  Sports / NBA NEW YORK — The 2026 NBA Playoffs Conference Finals are set. Oklahoma City Thunder, built around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and a roster whose average age is 24, which is unsettling. Cleveland Cavaliers, who went 64-18 in the regular season and are the best team in the East by a margin that made the entire conference somewhat depressing to watch from February onwards. Minnesota Timberwolves, who have Anthony Edwards doing things that should not be physically possible for a human in shoes. And the Indiana Pacers, who have Tyrese Haliburton and a genuine belief that hustle is a strategy, which is either heartwarming or delusional dep...