"Nightcaps," a column on OutKick.com, discusses reactions to WNBA player Sophie Cunningham's actions and comments about social issues, focusing particularly on her ex-teammate Sydney Colson who criticized Cunningham and other white players for not speaking up enough on these matters. The article also mentions an incident where a referee tackled someone on the sidelines during a game. Additionally, it briefly touches upon National Sausage Pizza Day, listing sausage as the best pizza topping above others like pepperoni and banana peppers.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk.
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It runs Monday-Friday on OutKick.com.
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We've made it!
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While the left spent all week whining about Sophie Cunningham's hat and firing squad best practices, us PATRIOTS were biding our time, keeping our heads down, and grinding towards another weekend.
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And there ain't a thing they can do about it.
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Let's roll.
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Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham's ex-teammate, Sydney Colson, virtue-signals her BUTT off while also having maybe the worst career stats I've ever seen.
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This is who's telling Sophie — and white people — to shut up?
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The WNBA can do better than this, right?
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I've got Dak getting heckled by an Uber driver, a referee absolutely trucking a poor soul on the sidelines, and I'm sad about Mike Ditka.
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I feel like we say that every year, but goodness, 2026 has been a real kick to the you-know-whats in terms of death.
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And we still have three months to go!
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This is the best they got?
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I've got no real hot takes on pizza beyond the fact that I do, in fact, believe sausage is the best topping.
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I'm not just saying that because of the occasion.
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- Sausage
- Pepperoni (low-hanging fruit, but sometimes you have to take the layup)
- Banana peppers (would probably be No. 2 if I wasn't afraid you all would mock me)
- Meatballs!
Meatballs as a topping are underrated in the pizza topping game.
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They're not on every menu, but when they are, HAMMER it.
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And that concludes our Ted Talk portion of today's class.
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NOW, let's officially get the day started with some ex-WNBA player named Sydney Colson pandering to the left by telling Sophie Cunningham and her white counterparts to PIPE DOWN.
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Amazing:
At least she backed up her talk on the floor!
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Listen, if you never speak up about a d–n thing when you know it’s impacting the people that you claim to love, care about, you know we’re fighting together as a team, sister, blah blah blah, and you don’t speak up when things affect them.
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They don’t respect you.
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They are just trying to make it.
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Let me just tell you now, for real, for real: For the white players in the league, when you don’t say s–t, and even worse, when you say things that are harmful, talking about the trans s–t, nobody respects you.
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Nobody wants to hear your opinion.
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Freedom of speech, so you can say it, but just know people are just trying to get by when they’re dealing with you.
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Y’all ought to be ashamed to act like you’re cool with people, to act like you care about sisterhood, all of these things.
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They're the gifts that keep on giving "the whole year," as Cousin Eddie would say.
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As Dan Z. said in the above post, let's quickly remind everyone of the VERY HARMFUL thing Sophie Cunningham told ESPN months ago as it pertains to trans people:
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans.
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And I’m like, ‘I never once said that.’
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I think that I am here to extend love.
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But I also think with that love is truth, being honest.
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And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men."
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THAT's what Sydney Colson, who played with Cunningham last season in Indiana, deems "harmful" rhetoric.
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Speaking of last season, because I had never heard of this girl before this morning, I decided to do some Big J digging to see if her play on the court warranted all this chest-pumping off of it.
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Dak, Mike & what a hit!
Well, there you have it.
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That's who is calling out Sophie Cunningham.
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A player who struggled to score three points per game during her illustrious career in the WNBA.
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By the way, for the "Sophie stinks, too!" crowd ... she's averaged at least 8 points per game off the bench every year since 2022, including two seasons in double-digits.
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It ain't close.
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…and 18 more, not listed.
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