Belle Fraser

| Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner are getting headlines on and off the court.

WORCESTER — The Shrewsbury Post 397 legion baseball team had just beaten Hyde Park Post 78 on Saturday night when all the players' phones buzzed.

The Connecticut Sun will play in front of a sold-out crowd Tuesday night at TD Garden.

| The Connecticut Sun signed Celeste Taylor to a seven-day contract, the team announced Friday. The details of the rookie guard's deal were not disclosed at the time due to team policy.

The event featured 20-minute clinics run by Sun Academy, the team's official youth basketball platform. There were stations with the PWHL, NWHL and LPGA, as well as Microsoft's Science of Basketball STEM sessions and Daily Human's mental strength conditioning sessions.

TD Garden will host a WNBA regular-season game for the first time in league history on Aug. 20 when Connecticut takes on the Los Angeles Sparks for a 7 p.m. tip-off. The Sun – labeled as New England's women's basketball team – are hoping to lean into that identity and broaden their viewership to the Boston area.

BOSTON — The TD Garden crowd roared and rose to its feet as the final seconds ticked down in the fourth quarter.

The Sun beat the Los Angeles Sparks 69-61 Tuesday in the first-ever WNBA game held at TD Garden. What's more, it was a sold-out crowd of 19,156.

| The LPGA is back in New England. The Tour returns for the first time since 2004 to host the inaugural FM Championship at TPC Boston from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1.

| BOSTON — Megan Khang insisted her father keep the 2017 Super Bowl on the television despite the New England Patriots trailing the Atlanta Falcons, 28-3 in the third quarter.