Voting Begins this afternoon for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game to be held Next Month at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Voting for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game will start at 2 p.m. This Afternoon the league announced Tuesday. Fans will have until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time June 28 to cast their votes for this season’s All-Star starters. This year’s All-Star Game will be played on July 19 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, home of the Indiana Fever. The game will headline three days of WNBA events in Indianapolis. Throughout the voting period, fans can submit one full ballot per day via WNBA.com or the WNBA app, selecting up to four guards and six frontcourt players regardless of conference. Additionally, three special “2-for-1 Days” — on June 14, June 20 and June 27 — will allow fan ballots to count twice. As part of the fan engagement effort, one grand prize winner will receive a trip for two to All-Star weekend, including airfare, hotel accommodations, and tickets to both the All-Star Game and Friday’s Kia WNBA Skills Challenge and WNBA 3-Point Contest.
All-Star starters will be determined by a combination of fan, player, and media voting. Fans will account for 50% of the vote, while current players and a panel of media members will contribute 25% each. After voting concludes, players will be ranked by position within each voting group. The four guards and six frontcourt players with the best aggregate score will be named starters, with fan votes serving as the tiebreaker if needed. Once starters are selected, WNBA head coaches will vote to determine the 12 reserves. Coaches will be barred from voting for players on their own teams. The two players receiving the most fan votes will serve as team captains and will draft their rosters from the pool of remaining starters and reserves. The head coaches for the All-Star Game will be determined based on regular season records as of July 4. The coach with the best record will lead the team captained by the top vote-getter.
Indiana University Football Lands Ohio Linebacker Ja’Dyn Williams for 2026 Indiana received a verbal commitment Tuesday from Ohio linebacker Ja’Dyn Williams. Williams attends Washington H.S. in Massillon, Ohio. The 6-foot-2 and 205-pound Williams announced the offer on his social media pages. Williams took an official visit to IU over the weekend. He cancelled a Virginia visit to move up his trip to Bloomington. As a high school junior, Williams recorded 81 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks and 2 forced fumbles in 10 games. Based on the average of the national recruiting sites, Williams is a 3-star prospect and the No. 55 linebacker in the 2026 class. He chose IU over Power 4 offers from Cincinnati, Boston College, Duke, Kentucky, Rutgers, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, West Virginia, along with a host of Group of 5 schools. Williams becomes the 13th commitment of the 2026 class and the third player to commit in the last three days.
Devin Taylor Repeats as a Perfect Game All-American The first of many All-American awards were handed out Tuesday afternoon. Junior outfielder Devin Taylor was a repeat selection by Perfect Game on the All-American team, earning First Team honors as one of the best players in the country. The Cincinnati, Ohio native was a dominant force at the top of the IU lineup, working a .374 batting average while leading the team in hits (80) and runs (63). He broke the program’s home run record (54) this season and also became the first Hoosier with consecutive 80-hit seasons since Kyle Schwarber (2013-14).
It’s the third All-American honor for Taylor in his illustrious career and certainly not the last. In 2024, the lefty was honored by Perfect Game (Second Team) and the NCBWA (Third Team) following a 20-home run campaign. He was also a Freshman All-American by two separate outlets in 2023. Taylor is the third player in program history to earn First Team All-American honors by Perfect Game. The organization first began handing out honors in 2011. Schwarber repeated as a First Team selection in 2013 and 2014. He was joined in 2014 by his teammate Dustin DeMuth. The program’s all-time home run leader is a likely top 40 pick in this summer’s MLB Draft and has completed the first step towards being a unanimous All-American. The remaining outlets, which includes the likes of ABCA and D1 Baseball, will release their teams as the month progresses.
Jake Hanley and Cooper Malamazian named Perfect Game Freshman All-American’s The Indiana Baseball program has become notorious for recruiting high-level prep prospects and letting them play right away. As a result, IU has led the Big Ten in Freshman All-Americans since head coach Jeff Mercer took over the program in 2019. That trend will continue this year. Freshman first baseman Jake Hanley and freshman shortstop Cooper Malamazian were named First and Second Team Freshman All-Americans respectively by Perfect Game on Tuesday afternoon. It’s the third time in the last four years that multiple IU players have earned Freshman All-American honors.
Hanley, now a First Team Freshman All-American selection by the NCBWA and Perfect Game, was the 2025 Big Ten Freshman of the Year after starting all 56 games at first base for the Hoosiers. He hit .333 in his rookie campaign and collected 73 hits, 48 runs, 14 home runs and 52 RBIs. On top of that, he didn’t commit a defensive error in over 400 chances. Malamazian became the team’s starting shortstop in March and never let the position go. He played in 55 games with 46 starts. He hit .320 with 55 base knocks and 40 RBIs. Two of his four home runs were eighth-inning, two-run home runs to spark comeback victories against Ohio State (3/14) and Maryland (4/18). As of this week, Hanley and Malamazian are the 10th and 11th players to earn Freshman All-American honors at IU under Mercer. Hanley is well on his way to becoming the second unanimous Freshman All-American (Josh Pyne – 2022) in program history.
Indianapolis Indians Walk off the St. Paul Saints in 10 Innings The Indianapolis Indians took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before defeating the St. Paul Saints on Ronny Simon’s walk-off fielder’s choice in the 10th inning on Tuesday night at Victory Field, 3-2. The Indians (35-27) trailed for the first time entering the bottom of the 10th inning against Kyle Bischoff (L,4-1). Matt Fraizer, as the automatic runner at second base to begin the game, swiped third base before a wild pitch scored him as the game-tying run. Tsung-Che Cheng, standing on third following a walk, raced home safely to win the game on Simon’s grounder to the mound. Indianapolis led 1-0 after a fourth-inning sacrifice fly as Ryder Ryan, Dauri Moreta and Peter Strzelecki combined for 6.0 no-hit innings. The bid was broken up in the seventh before the Saints (30-31) tied the game against Yohan Ramírez with two outs in the ninth. Eddy Yean (W, 4-2) closed out the game in the10th. Billy Cook led the Indians offense with a trio of singles, followed by Cheng’s two hits. Cook now has six multi-hit performances in seven June games, good for a .556 batting average (15-for-27)
Atlanta Dream end the Indiana Fever’s Two Game Winning Streak The Indiana Fever (4-5) dropped a 77-58 result on the road to the Atlanta Dream. Despite the loss, the Fever earned $1,000 for their Commissioner’s Cup beneficiary, Peace Learning Center, bringing their tournament total to $7,000 with a 2-1 record. The first quarter saw Indiana and Atlanta locked in a tight battle, trading buckets on either end of the court with Aari McDonald’s six points leading the way for the Fever, but it was the Dream who would take the slight edge, up 22-19. Five points from DeWanna Bonner and Aliyah Boston in the second quarter made it a 33-33 game heading into the halftime break. Atlanta outshot the Fever through the third and fourth quarters, leading to the home team’s victory. Aliyah Boston’s assist on Kelsey Mitchell’s jump shot in the third quarter marked her 250th career assist, becoming the second fastest center in WNBA history to do so. Aliyah Boston recorded her 113th career block, giving her the 5th most in Indiana Fever history. Natasha Howard recorded her first double-double (15 points, 10 rebounds) of the season and the 49th of her career. Despite the loss, the Fever earned $1,000 for their Commissioner’s Cup beneficiary, Peace Learning Center, bringing their tournament total to $7,000 with a 2-1 record. The Indiana Fever return home to Gainbridge Fieldhouse to host the New York Liberty on Saturday at 3pm with the game broadcast nationally on ABC.