And here's a partial score ...

Be honest, now. Who among you, especially in These Parlous Times (and it's always These Parlous Times somewhere), wouldn't  -- or hasn't* -- put a sports story at the top of the front page? So it wouldn't be fair to question Fox News's judgment a priori on this one, which reached the No. 4 spot on the homepage May 17. Let's dive in:

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese had a heated exchange after the Indiana Fever sharpshooter fouled the Chicago Sky forward in the third quarter of their matchup Saturday.

Reese pushed Fever forward Natasha Howard in the back as she grabbed an offensive rebound off a miss by teammate Rebecca Allen.

Reese brought the ball low, and Clark fouled her before she went up for a shot. Reese fell to the ground.

Reese got up from the floor and got into the face of Clark.

OK so far?

Referees looked at the play and determined Clark used her left hand to shove Reese to the floor. They upgraded the personal foul on Clark to a flagrant foul. And Reese and Aliyah Boston of the Fever were issued technical fouls.

"Nothing malicious about it, just a good take foul," Clark told ESPN's Holly Rowe.

Ready for the nut graf?

It seemed to be another chapter in the rivalry between Clark and Reese.

The two had an intense rivalry during their time in women’s college basketball. Clark spoke on the importance of defeating rivals on the floor before the game against Chicago.

"Rivalries are real, and that's what makes sports so amazing," Clark told ESPN. "There's certain teams that those games just mean a little bit more. [We] come out here and play the same way every night, but [a rivalry] gets the fans involved, and they love it."

Now, if you're a sports fan, or perhaps even if you're not -- are you starting to get the sense that something's missing here?

Clark’s history with the Sky began last season.

Clark took a series of questionable fouls from Reese's Sky throughout the 2024 season, including one from Reese June 16.

Clark also took an infamous illegal hip check from Chicago Sky forward Chennedy Carter June 1. Then, in late August, Chicago's Diamond DeShields committed a hard foul on Clark, who went flying across the floor. The foul was later upgraded to a flagrant violation, and DeShields later posted screenshots of hate messages she had received from the foul.

But Clark's team prevailed, taking three of the four meetings between the teams last year, which were among the most-watched WNBA contests all season.

The Sky and Fever meet five times in 2025.

Don't bother going back to the top to look again, because -- no. Fox doesn't tell you who won, or by how much, or who set a record, or any of the things that might suggest why a sports story muscled its way up the page to No. 4. (And yes, the story was updated once after its initial timestamp.) So what put it there? Here's another Top 10 story from the same scribe the next day:

Or this, later the next day, which at least tells you who won (Indiana, 93-58):

Or this, from the day after that:

OK, fair enough: We all screw up sometimes in the heat of journalism. Shake it off, rub some dust on your hands, and get back in the game. But after a while reading Fox, one can easily form the idea that leaving the score out isn't always the mistake you might think it is. Let's see if the people who smash the "comment" button can tell us anything about other sports stories that didn't need a result to get to the top of the homepage.

Cavs' Donovan Mitchell, Grizzlies' Dillon Brooks ejected after brawl breaks out (Feb. 2, 2023)
Whole lotta disrespektin' going on!

Why do they need a full month for their history? A minute is more then sufficient.

NBA.  NOTHING BUT ANIMALS

They’re feral. 

Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert punches his own teammate during timeout (April 9, 2023)
That's odd... On TV commercials (and they appear in 95% of them for some strange reason), they're always so peaceful and friendly. Going on camping trips in luxury SUVs with their smiling, white spouses and well-behaved, light-skinned children...

The sacrifices made for others to cater to a certain segment of the population over the past several decades has been futile. Federal laws, education opportunities, employment opportunities, government assistance programs all created for a specific segment of the population, and yet violence and cr...

He was obviously 'disrespected' - he had no choice but to hit him.

Multiple Indoor Football League players suspended indefinitely (July 4, 2023)
Whoever first said we should have picked our own cotton nailed it perfectly .

But sheet mane, hez dispected me. Hez luggy iz dint shewtz him.

Maybe they were kept in chains for a reason.

Fight erupts on NFL field after huge hit, one person carted away, another player ejected (Dec. 1, 2024)
I’m just glad he comes from a religion of peace or this could have been really bad!

Anyone supporting the NFL is a traitor,  pure and simple. Supporting BLM should be a crime.

Remember when the 'N' in NFL stood for 'National'? Well, at least nobody shot up a mall...

It's almost as if ... some major sports stories aren't about sports at all.

Over the course of looking at right-wing media, the question does come up sometimes: Is Fox actually racist? Short answer, yes, but longer answer -- it often doesn't have to be. It just hands the keys to the audience and lets them drive.

* Yes, I got a kudos from the glassholes for breaking a 1A design rule in honor of Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit. What of it?