Memorial Day Weekend means grilled food, summer whites, and softball Super Regionals. By Sunday night, the eight-team Women’s College World Series will be set. So spicy, not even the new season of Bridgerton can tear you away.

With No. 3 Boston and No. 4 Minnesota knotted at one game apiece, the best-of-five PWHL championship series is shifting to the State of Hockey for Game 3 tonight at 7 p.m. ET and Game 4 Sunday at 6 p.m. ET.

The GIST: Despite a season marked by unprecedented growth for the WNBA, the Washington Mystics don’t have the same level of big-name recognition that’s helping some other teams sell out their arenas. What they do have, however, is a genius marketing strategy.

Both the women’s and men’s national tournaments wrap up this weekend.

The conference finals are delivering more spice than Ed Sheeran’s episode of “Hot Ones,” with high-scoring outbursts and home court upsets lighting up both the Eastern and Western Conference Final. Pass the milk and let’s dive in.

Only four teams are left skating for the title of Stanley Cup champions: the NY Rangers and Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference and the Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers in the Western Conference. Let’s break it all down.

Much to the chagrin of at least two tennis legends, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) entered a multiyear partnership on Monday. The eyebrow-raising but not unexpected alliance comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that the WTA Finals will be hosted in Riyadh through 2026.

Two rematches kick of Super Regionals

Four teams are still fighting for the rights to BringYaAss.com the Larry O’Brien Trophy, with an epic overtime (OT) Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals (ECF) in the books and the Western Conference Finals (WCF) beginning tonight. Swish swish.

By tomorrow evening, the NCAA and the Power Four conferences will vote on whether to settle House v. NCAA, the ongoing lawsuit claiming the NCAA’s pre–NIL ban on student-athlete compensation violated antitrust regulations. A settlement would permanently change college sports’ business model, creating industry-altering shockwaves.

Last Thursday, Parity — a sponsorship platform that connects brands with women athletes — released a study in partnership with SurveyMonkey. The results contain the “most robust” data on women’s sports fans globally, Parity CEO Leela Srinivasan told The GIST.

This weekend’s 100-game Regional round was packed with SportsCenter-worthy highlights.