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Time of India
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
'Well not for you now' - Sophie Cunningham receives backlash from NFL player on her demeaning Detroit comment
Sophie Cunningham receives backlash from NFL player on her demeaning Detroit comment (Image Credit: Getty Images) Sophie Cunningham spoke her mind while mentioning possible cities that could be considered for the WNBA's expansion. She wanted the WNBA to consider crowd sentiment while developing its expansion roadmap. While expressing her thoughts, she commented on Detroit and Cleveland, which received a blunt response from NFL player Dan Skipper. Responding to a clip where Cunningham was seen being skeptical about Detroit as a good destination for the WNBA's growing presence, Dan Skipper wrote: 'You ever been there? Pretty good place to play, well not for you now.' Sophie's comments on the WNBA's possible destinations garnered attention. It received more than a million views, and varied responses from the basketball fans and fraternity. The entities affected by the comment instantly put up their responses on their X accounts. — DanSkipper70 (@DanSkipper70) Sophie Cunningham gets reality check in response to comments on Detroit In addition to Detroit Lions' Dan Skipper, the City of Detroit page on X came to the defense of the city with a statistics-based response. They enlightened Sophie with some mind-boggling information about Detroit's love for sports. Their response was: 'The last time we were home to a WNBA team (Detroit Shock), we ranked top five in attendance for five straight seasons, No. 1 in attendance for three straight seasons and set a single-game attendance record of 22,076 fans at Game 3 of the 2003 WNBA Finals. Additionally more than 775,000 people were excited to come to Detroit for the 2024 NFL draft. Detroit is a sports town. We're sure we'll see the same excitement for the WNBA returning. ' The City of Cleveland admins also sprang into action and reposted Caitlin Clark's response from 2024, where she was seen praising the city. They tweeted: 'Sophie, your teammate doesn't seem to think Cleveland is too bad! We're proud to have been chosen to host a WNBA team, and any player who comes here will feel that legendary passion Cleveland sports fans show our teams!' Sophie Cunningham gets response from X account City of Cunningham What did Sophie Cunningham say about Detroit and Cleveland? Sophie Cunningham had her list of cities ready, which she thought would be suitable destinations for the WNBA's expansion. However, while doing so, she put Detroit and Cleveland off her list of preferred locations. She said: 'Miami would have been a great one. Everyone loves Florida. Nashville is an amazing city. Kansas City, amazing opportunity. There's a huge arena downtown (Sprint Center) that no one's using. And I think the women's soccer league (in Kansas City) is showing that people draw.' It was the concluding part that caught people's attention. She wrapped up her thoughts, saying: 'You don't want teams to totally dominate then have teams that aren't. It's a hard situation, but I don't know how excited people are to go to Detroit or (Cleveland).' Also Read: NBA star Sophie Cunningham's viral Instagram carousel sparks heartfelt reactions from Caitlin Clark and Lexie Hull Was Sophie Cunningham's comment blown out of proportion? Readers can share their thoughts in the comments section. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
USA Today
05-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Lions OTA notebook from the final offseason workout before training camp
Lions OTA notebook from the final offseason workout before training camp The Detroit Lions held their final OTA workout session that is open to the media on Thursday. Due to inclement weather, the practice was indoors at the team's training facility in Allen Park. Being indoors constrains the practice. There is only one field, and the viewing angles for the media are different than what we normally get. With many veterans already gone or not participating in the unpadded walkthrough, there wasn't a great deal of notable action. The biggest takeaways from the practice: Rookie Tate Ratledge took the first-team reps at center, followed by Colby Sorsdal. Veteran Graham Glasgow was not participating in the practice. Kingsley Eguakun played at left guard with the second-team offense and didn't get any center reps that I saw. Newcomer Trystan Colon is wearing No. 67. He took early walkthrough reps but did not align in the team walkthrough drills. Christian Mahogany continues to work exclusively at left guard. With Glasgow not playing, Kayode Awosika took the first-team reps at RG. Giovanni Manu was the first-team left tackle and Dan Skipper on the right side with starters Taylor Decker and Penei Sewell not participating. There is nothing detailed beyond that to be gleaned from performance in an unpadded, half-speed practice for any linemen. First-round rookie Tyleik Williams did mix in some defensive reps, an upgrade from last week's session when he merely observed. Again, it's half-speed so nothing too strenuous. Derrick Barnes also participated in that capacity, which was nice to see. On the offensive side of the ball, free agent signee Kenny Yeboah saw some action after missing last week's session. With the news that Malcolm Rodriguez is likely out until at least November, the Grant Stuard signing is looking more important all the time. Stuard continues to get considerable reps at LB and is also the first-team punt protector for Jack Fox. Without revealing too much detail, Dan Skipper and Jamarco Jones are the best receiving options amongst the offensive linemen. Netane Muti and Michael Niese, not so much... Following practice, wideout Amon-Ra St. Brown told us he had minor knee surgery earlier this offseason. He's not participated in any OTAs but expects to be ready for training camp next month. Skipper volunteered to be the first player to meet with the media after practice, to talk about Frank Ragnow. He noted that he once hosted Ragnow on his official visit to Arkansas back when the Razorbacks were recruiting the freshly retired center. The Lions are now off until training camp, which fires up in July ahead of the Hall of Fame game against the Chargers on July 31st.
