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Sophie Cunningham STANDS UP For Women Amidst WNBA Attacks | Don't @ Me w/Dan Dakich
Sophie Cunningham drops unfiltered thoughts defending women’s athletics, mounting disconnected a monolithic media firestorm. From ESPN’s basking takes to nan WNBA media’s fierce reaction, Dan breaks down why Cunningham is quickly becoming nan astir talked-about look successful nan league—and why she is wholly embracing nan backlash. Plus, Caitlin Clark makes waves by declining nan 3-Point Contest astatine WNBA All-Star Weekend.
'Nightcaps' is simply a regular file that catches you up connected nan biggest sports, news and civilization stories you whitethorn person missed while pretending to do activity astatine your desk. It runs Monday–Friday connected OutKick.com.
Penultimate Friday of July, and nan last weekend of nan period connected tap.
Who has it amended than america correct now? Nobody. We are ROLLING to adjacent nan month. The momentum is there, and it's growing.
ESPN cleaned location this week. Nancy Armour is getting perfectly dragged crossed nan internet. Sophie Cunningham is fighting back. Football practices are underway.
I mean, goodness gracious. What a blessing. What a country. What a clip to beryllium alive.
Let's roll.
ESPN newsman Alyssa Lang stands during nan assemblage shot crippled betwixt nan Texas Longhorns and nan Mississippi State Bulldogs connected Oct. 25, 2025, astatine Davis Wade Stadium successful Starkville, Miss. (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — nan 1 wherever ESPN's SEC big Alyssa Lang puts an net troll successful his spot aft a ascendant week astatine SEC Media Days.
What else? I've sewage a mates large anniversaries to observe today, Nick Saban is backmost connected my TV and it's been wonderful, and Nick Bosa tweeted for nan first clip successful 4 years specifically to observe Ryan Clark's firing.
Amazing.
Grab you a Busch Light for illustration a existent patriot, and settee successful for a Friday 'Cap!
Alyssa Lang survived nan cuts and is thriving this week
It's a Friday. We're gonna support it ray and loose astir here. I didn't get to mow nan section yesterday, truthful I'm besides gonna support it short because nan day thunderstorms are correct astir nan area and I can't spend to fto this jungle spell different day.
Before we start, nan value of brew astatine sporting events is genuinely absurd. Ryan is spot-on pinch his supra study saying that Busch Light costs astir $16 astatine Wrigley Field.
Frankly, I'm much impressed that Wrigley serves Busch Light. I respect them for that. Didn't deliberation a spot for illustration Chicago had that successful them. Well done.
That being said, here's your one-month informing that NASCAR returns to Daytona astatine nan extremity of August and nan Busch Light costs $9 successful nan infield. They besides service it connected draft, for those willing (all of you).
God, I emotion this state. Still pricey, but that's nan champion you're gonna get astatine a sporting arena successful 2026 (non-Augusta).
They besides explanation each of their "domestic drafts" arsenic "American drafts" astatine Daytona, for those who needed moreover much of a logic to travel connected down for nan Firecracker 400.
What a track. What a sport.
OK, that's your Ted Talk for nan day. Let's get this people started pinch ESPN's Alyssa Lang not only surviving this week's roster cuts, but past putting a body-shaming net troll successful his spot complete connected Elon's X.
Saban is backmost connected TV and instantly drops an expletive
"Just a small disconnected play pudge she’s gonna person to suffer if she wants to support her job."
"Those are really called abs, successful lawsuit you haven’t seen your ain recently."
Lordy. What a takedown. Alyssa spent nan summertime traversing Europe, and now she's backmost successful midseason shape fresh to roll. Been a sadistic week astatine ESPN (all self-inflicted, by nan way), but this is nan measurement forward. Alyssa Lang, Tim Tebow, Finebaum, and immoderate SEC football.
All is correct pinch nan world. Good to person assemblage shot backmost (sort of). Let's get done these adjacent fewer weeks and get this play rolling.
Can't wait.
Speaking of assemblage football, Nick Saban returned to our airwaves this week and wasted nary clip giving Bristol producers a panic onslaught by letting it rip connected unrecorded TV pinch caller UF coach Jon Sumrall:
More Saban, Happy day & Bosa's BACK!
"I’m a Florida resident now, down location amongst nan Gators… and I want you to cognize I’m benignant of a semi-Gator. So if you don’t get your s–t together, I’m gonna beryllium successful nan mediate of it."
As 1 of OutKick's resident Florida fans — on pinch Austin Perry — Nick is right, by nan way. There won't beryllium a ton of patience for Jon Sumrall. Believe me. The Gators person STUNK for years now, and it's been unacceptable.
We don't want to perceive astir NIL deals and transfers and "trust nan process." They request to triumph — aliases astatine slightest show they tin people a freaking touchdown — beautiful quickly.
Nick Saban speaks during ESPN's College GameDay astatine Vanderbilt University connected Oct. 25, 2025 successful Nashville, Tennessee. (Carly Mackler/Getty Images)
"Two Bits! Four Bits! Six Bits! A Dollar! All for nan Gators, guidelines up and holler!"
OK, let's instrumentality pinch Saban and rapid-fire this Friday people into a large Friday day of laying down stripes connected nan yard.
Where do we guidelines connected this comment?
Here's what I cognize ...
The OutKick assemblage is overwhelmingly pro-SEC. I cognize this, because I spot nan scholar emails each time aft Ian Miller writes different article dumping connected nan SEC.
PS: Ian's a bully dude, I promise!
I'm besides pro-SEC. Duh. I've lived successful it my full life. I work together pinch Saban erstwhile he says nan nationalist champion shouldn't automatically specify nan champion conference. Miami very good could person won past twelvemonth and we each cognize nan ACC ain't good.
But, it's besides not nan best time for Saban to make this statement fixed nan Big Ten has had nan precocious manus successful caller years. The SEC besides went 4-10 successful vessel games past season. Not awesome (at all).
The statement is valid. The timing is ... poor.
Thoughts? Lemme know!
Next? The lefties most-feared NFL player, Nick Bosa, hopped BACK connected Twitter pinch an original tweet for nan first clip since 2022, and it was a direct changeable astatine Ryan Clark:
Amazing. For those wondering, yes — Nick Bosa hates Ryan Clark. This isn't confirmed, but I'd ideate it stems from erstwhile Clark went connected his atrocious podcast and cried because Bosa wore a MAGA chapeau during an NBC postgame interview:
"When you opportunity Make America Great ... Again ... what was truthful awesome astir it before? What portion of America are you trying to get to?"
Goodness. What a loser. Frankly, it's stunning it took ESPN this agelong to cut ties. Good riddance, Rhino!
OK, that's it for coming — and this week. I time off you each pinch 2 very typical anniversaries connected nan measurement out.
First? This week marks six years since we started nan insufferable COVID shot play pinch Dr. Fauci throwing, easily, nan worst first transportation successful nan history of baseball.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of nan National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, throws retired nan ceremonial first transportation anterior to nan crippled betwixt nan New York Yankees and nan Washington Nationals astatine Nationals Park connected July 23, 2020, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
Second? TODAY is nan 26-year day of Varitek and A-Rod throwing hands successful arguably nan astir consequential shot conflict of each time.
I retrieve watching it unrecorded for illustration it was yesterday. We were connected picnic astatine our aged compartment successful North Carolina. I was mesmerized. It's erstwhile I genuinely became a Red Sox fan.
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See y'all Monday.
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Zach Dean is simply a writer for OutKick.
