Fever star Sophie Cunningham says sports media needs 'more honesty'

Indiana Fever prima Sophie Cunningham called for much honesty among the sports media, portion speaking to reporters astatine her team's media time connected Wednesday.

Cunningham was asked astir a caller societal media exchange, appearing to notation her calling retired Yahoo Sports for an X station that claimed she "was not thrilled" astir her caller one-year declaration hold with the team. The station cited a caller punctuation from Cunningham's podcast wherever she said the woody was "kind of frustrating."

"I’m gonna unopen this down close now. I’m not huffy astir the money…. I conscionable wanted much years due to the fact that I emotion it here. I wanted to get a location truthful I could bring my canine and donkey to Indy with me. That’s it. That’s the truth. I deliberation we person thing precise peculiar present successful Indiana!!" Cunningham wrote successful effect to the 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 code the contented again astatine Wednesday's media time session.

"Media is going to bash what media does and I deliberation you guys cognize that. You guys are a portion of that. And I deliberation if everyone watches the afloat clip that I'm precise 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 the bills and whatnot," Cunningham said.

Cunningham added that she hopes to instrumentality an honorable attack arsenic an aspiring sports broadcaster.

"I've been connected some sides of media, affirmative and negative. And I privation to beryllium idiosyncratic who brings smiles, who brings positivity. And so, I truly anticipation that I tin bring that to the broadcasting space. I deliberation if you person conversations with your friends and bash each that, of course, anyone tin clip a small thing and it tin conscionable stroke 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 the 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 got connected that, truthful galore radical were like, ‘Hey, we emotion the authenticity. We emotion the honesty. We deliberation that much players should talk similar that.’ And so, for me, it conscionable opened up a antithetic position of, ‘Hey, I privation to archer radical stories.’ And I wanted to beryllium positive. I wanted to beryllium them. And truthful erstwhile each this worldly happens, present I get to beryllium you guys and I get to stock the story."

After signing a one-year, $665,000 declaration Sunday, Cunningham posted a video connected TikTok Tuesday of her big baptism.

"I got baptized erstwhile I was small but I was feeling a tug connected my bosom to bash it connected my presumption 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 with the squad and volition proceed playing alongside superstar Caitlin Clark.

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Indiana Fever guards Lexie Hull, Caitlin Clark, and Sophie Cunningham laughter adjacent the squad seat during a crippled against the 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 declaration hold with Indiana, proved to beryllium an businesslike and gravitating unit successful popularity erstwhile they were each connected the tribunal astatine the aforesaid clip past year. Along the way, they earned a mysterious nickname connected societal media, which they aboriginal adopted for themselves — "Tres Leches," which translates from Spanish to "three milks" and refers to a fashionable Latin American sponge cake.

"We saw it connected Twitter astatine immoderate point, and radical ran with it," Hull antecedently told Fox News Digital of the nickname. "It was funny."

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