{"id":591410,"date":"2026-04-09T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:58:11","slug":"sophie-cunningham-to-join-usa-sports-broadcast-team-for-wnba-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591410\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham to join USA Sports broadcast team for WNBA games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Indiana Fever fans will see a familiar face behind the desk during games this season. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DW2e20hFGf5\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham posted on Instagram<\/a> that she will be joining the broadcast team with USA Sports for WNBA games and contribute to studio coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, who is currently an unrestricted free agent, played for the Indiana Fever last season. Cunningham is not retiring, but joining the team in addition to her playing career. <\/p>\n<p>The small forward played 30 games with the Fever last season, averaging 8.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per game. She played the previous six seasons with Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>WNBA free agents can begin signing contracts on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Indiana Fever fans will see a familiar face behind the desk during games this season. Sophie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-591410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}