{"id":124215,"date":"2025-08-06T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124215\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:02:13","slug":"fevers-sophie-cunningham-fined-1500-by-wnba-for-criticizing-refs-in-podcast-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124215\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever&#8217;s Sophie Cunningham Fined $1,500 by WNBA for Criticizing Refs in Podcast Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham wrote another check to the WNBA office for critical comments she made about the league&#8217;s officiating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cunningham <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nosyone4\/status\/1952799867027550584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a> on her Show Me Something podcast that she was fined $1,500, thanks to some of her remarks in the show&#8217;s premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;If I was a ref, I know I would mess up all the time,&#8221; she said in that episode (via <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/08\/05\/sophie-cunningham-fined-1500-for-comments-about-wnba-refs-on-podcast-show-me-something-indiana-fever\/85530385007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Matthew Glenesk<\/a> of the Indianapolis Star). &#8220;Like, I&#8217;m not saying that your job is easy, but when it is a simple call right in front of your face multiple times, what are you doing? What are you doing? &#8230; They&#8217;re just so inconsistent, like that&#8217;s one thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">For more from Bleacher Report on this topic and from around the sports world, check out our <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/br.app.link\/RmoyZixP3xb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">B\/R app<\/a>, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleacherreport.com\/?utm_source=webdva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">homepage<\/a> and social feeds\u2014including <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bleacherreport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bleacherreport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> and <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bleacherreport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham wrote another check to the WNBA office for critical comments she made about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-124215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}