Believe it or not, Caitlin Clark is not invincible. 

Clark will miss a minimum of two weeks due to a left quadriceps strain, the Indiana Fever announced Monday. The 23-year-old had yet to miss a regular-season game in her professional career and played every possible game during her four years at Iowa.

Clark had missed a preseason game earlier this year due to a quad injury, but this injury is a “new” one, according to Chloe Peterson of Indy Star Sports.

Given the Fever’s timeline, their star guard will miss at least four games, including two games on the road that were moved to larger arenas.

• May 28: at Washington Mystics (moved to CPG Bank Arena in Baltimore)
• May 30: vs. Connecticut Sun
• June 3: vs. Mystics
• June 7: at Chicago Sky (moved to United Center)

Washington normally plays at the CareFirst Arena, which seats about 4,000, while the CPG Bank Arena would fit about 14,000. Chicago is moving from the Wintrust Arena, which fits about 10,400, to the United Center, home of the NBA’s Bulls, with a capacity close to 21,000, the most among all NBA arenas.

It’s unclear whether the teams will provide any compensation for fans who bought tickets to their games. A Mystics spokesperson said the team was “not planning to make changes to tickets.” The Sky did not respond to a request for comment. 

Just outside of the two-week timeline is another road game against the Atlanta Dream, though that game will be played at the team’s usual home of Gateway Center Arena. The Dream moved its home opener on May 22 against the Fever to State Farm Arena, home of the NBA’s Hawks, and drew a sellout crowd of 17,044 fans.

All four of the Fever’s games over the next two weeks will be nationally televised, if NBA TV is considered. The two Mystics games will be on NBA TV, the Sun match-up will be on Ion, and the Sky game will be on CBS. 

Clark has continued to be the needle mover for WNBA viewership. The Sky and Fever drew 2.7 million viewers on ABC in their season opener on May 17, the most-watched regular-season game ever on ESPN networks.

The Pacers looked like a shoo-in for the NBA Finals after taking a 20-point lead in the second quarter of Game 3 against the Knicks. But comebacks have been a theme of these playoffs for both teams—and it was New York’s turn Sunday. The Knicks outscored the Pacers by 16 in the fourth quarter to bring their Eastern Conference finals series to 2–1, with a chance to tie it on Tuesday.

It’s a positive result for the NBA (and its broadcast partner, TNT, airing its final series before the league moves to NBC and Amazon Prime) as it extends one of the postseason’s most exciting series. 

While there are still no viewership numbers for Games 2 and 3, ratings are expected to be strong following Game 1, which drew 6.6 million viewers, a seven-year high for an Eastern Conference finals opener. It helps that the two sides have a long-standing rivalry dating back to the ‘90s, and each of the three games has been decided by six points or less.

The boost comes at a good time for the league, as the other side of the bracket hasn’t had the same viewership pull. Game 1 of the Western Conference finals series between the Thunder and Timberwolves averaged 5.36 million viewers, the least-watched conference finals opener since 2021. Game 2 on Thursday drew 5.16 million viewers, the least-watched Western Conference finals game since 2013, according to Sports Media Watch.

Like the Knicks, Minnesota also cut its series deficit to 2–1 with a win Saturday, but the 42-point blowout over Oklahoma City likely didn’t help viewership numbers—at least for that game.

Sunday’s win for New York also ensures that at least one more game will be played at Madison Square Garden. The get-in price for Game 5 is $620, according to TickPick, more expensive than the cheapest ticket for Game 4 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The current get-in price for a potential Game 7 at The Garden is $1,127.

Fox aired the Indianapolis 500 for the first time—and delivered a historic audience.

The 2025 Indy 500 drew 7.05 million viewers on Fox, according to Nielsen fast nationals, the network announced Monday. It’s the most-watched Indy 500 since 2008, which drew 7.2 million viewers, and was up 40% from the 5 million who watched the race last year on NBC.

According to Sports Media Watch, it was the most-watched motorsports event in the U.S. since the 2023 Daytona 500. It topped the last two Daytona 500 races, which were both also carried by Fox. 

Last year, IndyCar agreed to a multiyear deal with Fox, leaving NBC for the first time in 16 years. The length of the deal is unclear, but reports have indicated it is worth $25 million annually, $5 million more than NBC’s contract.

Sunday’s record numbers come despite a delay in the start time of the race. The original 12:45 p.m. ET start was pushed back about 45 minutes due to light rain. Last year’s race was delayed nearly four hours due to rain. 

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Álex Palou, who has won three of the last four IndyCar championships, won the iconic race for the first time in his career. The win solidified his dominant start to the season, which now includes wins in five of the first six races. He holds a 115-point lead in the standings.

The Indy 500 and Monaco Grand Prix shared the same weekend for the final time—and two former teammates stood on the top of their respective podiums for the first time.

McLaren’s Lando Norris took home the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday morning. Norris’s win and teammate Oscar Piastri’s third-place finish helped Team Papaya extend their constructors’ championship lead to 172. That lead is larger than the total point count accumulated by second-place Mercedes, which failed to score Sunday.

Norris also cut Piastri’s lead in the constructors’ championship to three points.

Hours later, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Álex Palou, McLaren’s 2023 reserve driver, won the Indy 500, two years after he took home pole position at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Palou has won three of the last four IndyCar drivers’ championships and sits at No. 1 this year.

The two races will no longer be on the same weekend starting in 2026, as the Monaco GP will be moved to the first full weekend in June.

Failed Double

For the second year in a row, Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson failed to complete The Double—which is when drivers finish both the Indy 500 and NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte on the same day, a total of 1,100 miles.

After the weather halted his attempt last year, crashes stopped him this year. Larson crashed on Lap 91 at the Indy 500 and Lap 246 of the Coca-Cola 600.

It may be Larson’s final time to attempt The Double, and he told Front Office Sports Today on Friday that he had initially planned a two-year window to attempt the historic feat.

“The Double is a tough undertaking,” Larson said Sunday. “The window of time is just too tight.”

Monaco Misses Again

F1 enforced a rule at the Monaco GP that required teams to make two tire changes—one more than the usual race—in an effort to spice up what’s been a lackluster race in recent years. But it didn’t do much.

A year after the race featured just four overtakes, there was only one legal overtake in the 2025 Monaco GP, according to ESPN. The race, which has been renewed by F1 until 2031, was criticized by most drivers, including four-time World Champion Max Verstappen.

“You can’t race here anyway, so it doesn’t matter what you do. One stop, 10 stops. Even at the end, I was in the lead, but my tires were completely gone, and you still can’t pass. We were almost doing Mario Kart,” Verstappen said.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner was one of the leaders calling for changes in the track’s layout.

“The cars are so big now that you just don’t have a chance to get alongside. … There just needs to be one area where you can have an overtake and everybody knows that coming here the race was pretty much done on Saturday,” Horner said.