Sunday’s game between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun was a special occasion for Fever's coach Stephanie White. It was a homecoming of sorts for the veteran shot-caller as she returned to her former stomping ground after previously serving as the Sun’s head coach for two seasons.

Caitlin Clark (right groin) is set to miss her 14th consecutive game when the Fever take on the Lynx in a 2025 WNBA Commissioner's Cup rematch.

The state is reporting 6,761 cases of valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, through July this year. That means California is on pace to top last year’s record of 12,595 cases. There were fewer than 1,000 cases logged in the year 2000. Valley fever now results in around 80 deaths and over 1,000 hospitalizations annually in California.

We don't know the number of asymptomatic cases.” First discovered in 1955, the virus is transmitted from person to person by a small insect called the biting midge ( Culicoides paraensis), which resides worldwide,

Since 2000, valley fever cases have been increasing, starting from less than 1,000 cases reported annually to more than 9,000 cases in 2019.

Marina Mabrey made headlines for all the wrong reasons after the heated matchup between the Connecticut Sun and the Indiana Fever on June 17. This was after Mabrey received a technical foul for forcefully shoving Caitlin Clark to the ground during a heated altercation in the game.

Sophie Cunningham's season-ending knee injury left a void for an experienced ballhandler and the Fever signed veteran Shey Peddy to fill that hole.

"When children get this kind of very severe [Valley fever,] it's very devastating," Yang said, explaining that infection can disseminate and spread to the bone in children, requiring chronic treatments. "They're not going to live normally."