{"id":63188,"date":"2026-08-09T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/63188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:01:15","slug":"florida-attorney-general-offers-his-response-to-brutal-foul-on-sophie-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/63188\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida attorney general offers his response to brutal foul on Sophie Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">One of the wildest moments of the <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_144413\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/wnba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> season \u2014 which is saying a lot these days \u2014 came on Saturday between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">DiJonai Carrington of the Sky was handed a Flagrant 2 foul for appearing to clothesline <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_144414\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the Fever&#8217;s<\/a> Sophie Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The incident has gotten people talking, with even the Florida attorney general chiming in.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_144415\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/sophie-cunningham-speaks-out-against-dijonai-carrington-flagrant-foul-white-privilege-post\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM SPEAKS OUT AGAINST DIJONAI CARRINGTON AFTER FLAGRANT FOUL AND &#8216;WHITE PRIVILEGE&#8217; POST<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786287675_725_sophie-cunningham-carrington-chicago-sky-wnba.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie Cunningham drives to the basket as DiJonai Carrington fouls her during an Indiana Fever vs. Chicago Sky game.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington commits a flagrant 2 foul against Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">His take: a play like that would never happen in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier hopped on X after the incident and explained why there&#8217;s not currently a WNBA club in the state.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Well, if that&#8217;s the case, I can see why the league has been hesitant to head down to Florida in recent years.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Florida previously had two clubs, but the state has not been home to a WNBA franchise for over 20 years. The Orlando Miracle played in the league from 1999 to 2002, but relocated to Connecticut, where they currently play as the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_144416\" href=\"https:\/\/link.podtrac.com\/dmwdd_article\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON&#8217;T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Farther south, the Miami Sol (yeah, technically that would be another team with the name &#8220;Sun&#8221;) played from 2000 to 2002.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/james-uthmeier.jpg\" alt=\"James Uthmeier\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier had some thoughts after the the Indiana Fever&#8217;s Sophie Cunningham was the target of a brutal flagrant foul. (Amy Beth Bennett \/ South Florida Sun Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">We&#8217;ve reached out to the Florida Attorney General&#8217;s office for comment but have yet to hear back.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_144417\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/wnba-faces-discipline-dilemma-carrington-white-privilege-post-targeting-indiana-fever\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA FACES DISCIPLINE DILEMMA AFTER CARRINGTON&#8217;S &#8216;WHITE PRIVILEGE&#8217; POST TARGETING INDIANA FEVER<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Joking or not, there&#8217;s no question that what we saw on Saturday was one doozy of a foul, no matter who was on the receiving end of it.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">But, in light of recent events, the fact that Cunningham was the target, and that Carrington has gotten into it before with Cunningham&#8217;s Fever teammate Caitlin Clark, it&#8217;s no surprise that the incident has gotten a lot of attention from all over the place.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Including the Florida AG&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">It remains to be seen if Carrington will receive supplemental discipline for the foul, or for the controversial social media post accusing the Fever of benefiting from <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_144419\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/dijonai-carrington-declares-white-privilege-ejection-smacking-sophie-cunningham-face\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;white privilege&#8221;<\/a> during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the wildest moments of the WNBA season \u2014 which is saying a lot these days \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[5439,8,5441,9,12309,7,4386],"class_list":["post-63188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-chicago-sky","tag-headlines","tag-indiana-fever","tag-news","tag-outkick-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117066156415766233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}