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Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham called for more honesty among the sports media while speaking to reporters at her team’s media day Wednesday.
Cunningham was asked about a recent social media exchange that appears to refer to her calling out Yahoo Sports for an X post that claimed she was “not thrilled” about her recent one-year contract extension with the team. The post cited a recent quote from Cunningham’s podcast in which she said the deal was “kind of frustrating.”
“I want to shut this down right now. I’m not mad about the money… I just wanted more years because I love this. I wanted a house so I could take my dog and donkey to Indy. That was it. That’s the truth. I think we have something really special here in Indiana!!” Cunningham wrote in response to the post X on Monday.
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham warms up before a game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Aug. 15, 2025. (Christine Tannous/IndyStar/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Cunningham appeared to address the issue again at Wednesday’s media day.
“Media is going to do what media does, and I think you guys know that. You’re a part of it. And I think if everybody watches the whole clip, I’m very calm, cool and collected. You know, I think sports and media in general, we need more honesty. We love clickbait. I know that’s what pays the bills and whatnot,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham added that she hopes to take an honest approach as an aspiring sports broadcaster.
“I’ve been on both sides of the media, positive and negative. And I want to be someone who brings smiles, who brings positivity. And then I really hope that I can bring that to the broadcast surface. I think if you have conversations with your friends and do all that, of course, anyone can cut a little thing and it can just blow up and not be what you meant at all,” she said.
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham reacts during a WNBA game against the Phoenix Mercury at PHX Arena in Phoenix, Arizona on August 7, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)
“And then, I think as much negativity as I got on it, so many people were like, “Hey, we love the authenticity. We love the honesty. We think more players should be talking like that.’ And so, for me, it just opened up a different perspective of, ‘Hey, I want to tell people stories.’ And I wanted to be positive. I wanted to be them. And then when all this happens, now I have to be you and I have to share the story.”
After sign a year$665,000 contract On Sunday, Cunningham posted a video on TikTok on Tuesday of her adult baptism.
“I was baptized when I was little, but I felt a tug in my heart to do it on my terms as an adult! Such a fun, amazing day. Thank you Jesus,” she wrote.
Cunningham is one of many players from last year’s Fever core who have re-signed with the team and will continue to play alongside superstar Caitlin Clark.
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Indiana Fever guards Lexie Hull, Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham laugh near the bench during a game against the Washington Mystics at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on June 3, 2025. (IMAGIN)
The trio of Clark, Cunningham and Lexie Hull, who also recently signed a contract extension with Indiana, proved to be an effective and attractive force in popularity when they were all on the court at the same time last year. Along the way, they acquired a mysterious nickname on social media that they later adopted for themselves – “Tres Leches”, which translates from Spanish to “three milks” and refers to a popular Latin American sponge cake.
“We saw it on Twitter at one point and people ran with it,” Hull previously told Pakinomist Digital about the nickname. “It was fun.”
