{"id":171495,"date":"2025-09-21T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171495\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:12:12","slug":"sophie-cunningham-has-message-for-haters-after-police-face-off-with-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171495\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Has Message For Haters After Police Face-Off With Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie ain&#8217;t backing down!<\/p>\n<p>PublishedSeptember 20, 2025 10:43 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 20, 2025 10:43 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Between the NFL, college football, MLB pennant races and that pesky Jimmy Kimmel news, I feel like we all collectively sort of missed the biggest story of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Did y&#8217;all know the WNBA playoffs were going on? Lord knows I didn&#8217;t. Feel like it&#8217;s all we talked about last year, mainly because of some girl named Caitlin Clark. She&#8217;s a needle-mover, you know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">So is teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/sophie-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sophie Cunningham.<\/a> Personally, I&#8217;d ride with Sophie all day over Clark, but that&#8217;s a story for another day. Regardless, they&#8217;re two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/sophie-cunningham-says-quiet-part-out-loud-about-angel-reese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">absolute firecrackers in the WNBA,<\/a> and they&#8217;re both, unfortunately, out for the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Somehow, the Indiana Fever still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/fever-win-first-playoff-series-10-years-despite-caitlin-clarks-injury-advance-wnba-semifinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">managed to advance<\/a> to the next round of the playoffs earlier this week, and Clark and Cunningham found themselves at the center of maybe the most viral picture on the internet right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Sophie and Caitlin vs. the police \u2026 who ya got?<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cunningham plans to stay in the picture\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Whoaaaaaaa Nellie! How did OutKick miss this little showdown from Thursday night? Here&#8217;s the backstory. The short version, obviously, it&#8217;s a college football Saturday after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Apparently, Sophie and Caitlin \u2013 and others \u2013 got a little frisky during an injury timeout with about four minutes left in the third quarter. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/wnba\/atlanta-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Dream<\/a> leading by six, Odyssey Sims sustained an injury, prompting the timeout. During those brief few minutes, Cunningham walked to center court with Clark behind her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That&#8217;s where they were met by this police officer, who DARED them to cross that line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Don&#8217;t know what was said, or what was going on here, but it was an all-time standoff. Who&#8217;s gonna blink first? Sophie? No chance. Absolute death stare from Sophie the whole time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Cunningham later retweeted the above photo of the encounter with the policewoman on social media. Yesterday, she let the world know she wasn&#8217;t backing down, or going ANYWHERE:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Honestly? No argument from me. I agree. Like I said, I&#8217;m #TeamSophie all day. She&#8217;s the WNBA content we all want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Anyway, who we siding with here? Sophie and Caitlin or the policewoman? Was she overzealous? Should Sophie have shown a little more respect? I don&#8217;t know. This feels unnecessary on the officer&#8217;s part from my view, but I also don&#8217;t know the context behind why Sophie and Co. were walking towards that side of the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In any event, it&#8217;s another elite picture for Cunningham to hang in her louvre. Along with others, of course:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie ain&#8217;t backing down! 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