{"id":77311,"date":"2026-08-12T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/fevers-white-says-critics-can-go-to-hell-over-handling-of-sophie-cunningham-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:55:33","slug":"fevers-white-says-critics-can-go-to-hell-over-handling-of-sophie-cunningham-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/fevers-white-says-critics-can-go-to-hell-over-handling-of-sophie-cunningham-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever\u2019s White says critics can \u2018go to hell\u2019 over handling of Sophie Cunningham controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Coach was booed by sections of Fever fanbase<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fever\u2019s success on court continues despite distractions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White has pushed back on those who have criticized how she has handled the controversy that erupted after Saturday\u2019s game between her team and the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>Sky\u2019s DiJonai Carrington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/08\/sophie-cunningham-foul-dijonai-carrington-ejected-wnba\">was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul<\/a> after she struck Fever\u2019s Sophie Cunningham in the head and neck during Saturday\u2019s game. Afterwards, White, \u2013 who previously coached Carrington at \u2060the Connecticut Sun \u2013 said she did not believe Carrington intentionally aimed for Cunningham\u2019s neck. White was booed by some Fever fans before Tuesday\u2019s win over the New York Liberty, while Indiana\u2019s lieutenant governor h<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MicahBeckwith\/status\/2086400266690068829?s=20\">as called for her to be fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/12\/fevers-white-says-critics-can-go-to-hell-over-handling-of-sophie-cunningham-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach was booed by sections of Fever fanbase Fever\u2019s success on court continues despite distractions Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White has pushed back on those who have criticized how she has handled the controversy that erupted after Saturday\u2019s game between her team and the Chicago Sky. Sky\u2019s DiJonai Carrington was ejected for a Flagrant 2 &#8230; <a title=\"Fever\u2019s White says critics can \u2018go to hell\u2019 over handling of Sophie Cunningham controversy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/fevers-white-says-critics-can-go-to-hell-over-handling-of-sophie-cunningham-controversy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fever\u2019s White says critics can \u2018go to hell\u2019 over handling of Sophie Cunningham controversy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}