The spotlight has never shined brighter on the Indiana Fever than it has this WNBA season. Superstar guard Caitlin Clark has managed to stay healthy amid the team’s title-contending campaign but much more national attention has been cast on her teammate, Sophie Cunningham.
Cunningham made headlines for her comments opposing transgender participation in women’s sports as part of a recent ESPN profile on the Fever guard. Cunningham noted last week that she wanted to steer the conversation back to basketball, and as the online controversy continues to snowball into an unavoidable issue, that’s what she and Indiana have more or less tried to do.
