Storm guard Erica Wheeler felt confident, but could only watch to see if Liberty guard Natasha Cloud could best her time in the WNBA Skills Challenge final Friday.

Explore Indy through the Indy Hoops Pass during WNBA All-Star Weekend. Scan QR codes at basketball-themed landmarks across the city to earn prizes.

The Line brings together lists of sevens from our reporting staff. “It’s early season.”

Russell Coutts, the chief executive of SailGP, knows all about winning that exalted, complicated, irresistible prize. He won the America’s Cup as skipper for New Zealand, twice, then once for Switzerland and twice as chief executive of the U.S. team, Oracle Racing.

For this week's Pulse Check, I connected with Robert Stone, CEO of City of Hope, one of the nation's largest cancer research and treatment organizations. Its hospitals are pillars in some of the largest American cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and Atlanta.

Purdue has the first-ever Comprehensive Space Engineering Degrees Program with offerings ranging an online master’s degree to undergraduate space certificate.

The league did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Based on the statistics of Season 1, the chances of getting an opportunity to compete are slim. The publication reports that around 81,000 people applied to take part in Squid Game: The Challenge Season 1 (which has been inspired by the Korean hit series Squid Game). The winner? Mai Whelan, also known as Player 287.