Enes Kanter Freedom said he was "kicked out" of WNBA Finals Game 3 after refusing the luxury suite the Atlanta Dream arranged for him.

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Angel Reese posted 30 points and 16 rebounds to lead the Dream past the Valkyries 79-65, evening the 2026 WNBA Finals series at 1-1.

By the time the last of the supporters have filed out of Fitzpatrick Stadium, Hannah Sirois still has hours of work ahead of her.

As the vice president of fan experience for Portland Hearts of Pine, a USL League One men’s team, Sirois is usually the last person to leave the stadium on matchdays. When kickoff is at 7 or 7:30 p.m., she sometimes doesn’t leave Fitzpatrick — or Fitzy, as locals call it — until 12:30 or 1 in the morning. Fitzpatrick is a multi-use facility, meaning that nearly everything that makes a Hearts of Pine game truly feel like a Hearts of Pine game — the local vendors’ kiosks, the kids’ activities and the other matchday attractions — has to be set up before kickoff and then packed away afterward.

It might sound like a tremendous amount of work for a third-division soccer club in Portland, Maine, because it is. But the results have been extraordinary. Since beginning play in 2025, the Hearts of Pine has become something of a local phenomenon, attracting thousands of supporters on a regular basis to Fitzy and building a following that extends well beyond Maine (at a recent match, American soccer legend Landon Donovan was in attendance, taking oyster shots with the club’s owners). The game-day atmosphere feels less like a typical lower-division sporting event and more like a spirited community gathering, with supporters showing up week after week regardless of how the club is faring.

And now, Sirois and her colleagues are preparing to do it all over again next spring, when the Maine Wildness, a women’s team, makes its debut in the pre-professional USL W League. The new club will exist under the same umbrella foundation as Hearts of Pine but will be looking to build an identity and audience of its own. And if the early response to the Maine Wildness is any indication, the appetite for the W League will be even greater than the club anticipated.

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At Wilka’s Sports Bar in lower Manhattan, a crowd of mostly LGBTQ+ fans was fired up during a WNBA playoff game between the New York Liberty and the Atlanta Dream. When the Liberty’s Jonquel Jones blocked the Dream’s star forward Angel Reese at the basket, then chest-bumped her – leading teammates to separate them – the bar erupted in cheers. One fan quietly joked: “Now kiss!”

“I love strong women, and I love supporting strong women,” said August, a trans organizer and Liberty fan who asked to go by their first name for privacy reasons.

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The Big 12 released a statement late Saturday night that the game clock should have had one second left following the game's final play.