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Indiana Fever prima Sophie Cunningham called for much honesty among nan sports media, while speaking to reporters astatine her team's media time connected Wednesday.
Cunningham was asked astir a caller societal media exchange, appearing to reference her calling retired Yahoo Sports for an X station that claimed she "was not thrilled" astir her caller one-year statement hold pinch nan team. The station cited a caller quote from Cunningham's podcast wherever she said nan woody was "kind of frustrating."
"I’m gonna unopen this down correct now. I’m not huffy astir nan money…. I conscionable wanted much years because I emotion it here. I wanted to get a location truthful I could bring my canine and donkey to Indy pinch me. That’s it. That’s nan truth. I deliberation we person thing very typical present successful Indiana!!" Cunningham wrote successful consequence to nan station connected X Monday.
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Indiana Fever defender Sophie Cunningham warms up earlier a crippled astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected Aug. 15, 2025. (Christine Tannous/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Cunningham past appeared to reside nan rumor again astatine Wednesday's media time session.
"Media is going to do what media does and I deliberation you guys cognize that. You guys are a portion of that. And I deliberation if everyone watches nan afloat clip that I'm very calm, cool, and collected. You know, I deliberation sports and media successful general, we request much honesty. We emotion clickbait. I cognize that's what pays nan bills and whatnot," Cunningham said.
Cunningham added that she hopes to return an honorable attack arsenic an aspiring sports broadcaster.
"I've been connected some sides of media, affirmative and negative. And I want to beryllium personification who brings smiles, who brings positivity. And so, I really dream that I tin bring that to nan broadcasting space. I deliberation if you person conversations pinch your friends and do each that, of course, anyone tin clip a small thing and it tin conscionable rustle up and beryllium not what you meant astatine all," she said.
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Indiana Fever defender Sophie Cunningham reacts during a WNBA crippled against nan Phoenix Mercury astatine PHX Arena successful Phoenix, Ariz., connected Aug. 7, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)
"And so, I deliberation arsenic overmuch negativity arsenic I sewage connected that, truthful galore group were like, ‘Hey, we emotion nan authenticity. We emotion nan honesty. We deliberation that much players should speak for illustration that.’ And so, for me, it conscionable opened up a different position of, ‘Hey, I want to show group stories.’ And I wanted to beryllium positive. I wanted to beryllium them. And truthful erstwhile each this worldly happens, now I get to beryllium you guys and I get to stock nan story."
After signing a one-year, $665,000 statement Sunday, Cunningham posted a video connected TikTok Tuesday of her big baptism.
"I sewage baptized erstwhile I was small but I was emotion a tug connected my bosom to do it connected my position arsenic an adult! Such a fun, astonishing day. Thank you Jesus," she wrote.
Cunningham is 1 of galore players from past year's Fever halfway who re-signed pinch nan squad and will proceed playing alongside superstar Caitlin Clark.
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Indiana Fever guards Lexie Hull, Caitlin Clark, and Sophie Cunningham laughter adjacent nan squad chair during a crippled against nan Washington Mystics astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected June 3, 2025. (IMAGN)
The trio of Clark, Cunningham and Lexie Hull, who besides precocious signed a statement hold pinch Indiana, proved to beryllium an businesslike and gravitating unit successful fame erstwhile they were each connected nan tribunal astatine nan aforesaid clip past year. Along nan way, they earned a mysterious nickname connected societal media, which they later adopted for themselves — "Tres Leches," which translates from Spanish to "three milks" and refers to a celebrated Latin American sponge cake.
"We saw it connected Twitter astatine immoderate point, and group ran pinch it," Hull antecedently told Fox News Digital of nan nickname. "It was funny."
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