Basketball Star Sophie Cunningham Stands Up Against Men in Women’s Sports
The radical left must hate her.
Sophie Cunningham received much attention last year when she stood up for her fellow basketball star, Caitlin Clark, and went after the girl who assaulted Clark in a game. Cunningham was referred to as Clark’s bodyguard.
Caitlin Clark was harassed and attacked, and then, on one key play, Clark was poked in the eye by Connecticut Sun player Jacy Sheldon. Then, Clark was bumped into and punched in the back by another player, while another player from the Sun knocked Clark down to the floor. The Sun players were not kicked out, and Clark and a Sun player were charged with technicals.
The refs in the WNBA are the worst!
This view is much worse. Clark was assaulted (again).
Then, with 47 seconds left on the clock, Clark’s teammate Sophie Cunningham got slammed into by Jacy Sheldon and was having none of it. Cunningham slammed Sheldon to the floor, and all hell broke loose. Cunningham, Sheldon, and another Sun player were kicked out of the game. BTW – Cunningham reportedly has a black belt.
The whole time that Cunningham held Sheldon, she was talking.
By the way, now Cunningham is a name every WNBA fan knows…
During the off-season, Cunningham attended a golf outing with Clark. Clark was joined by her good friends and Indianapolis teammates Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull as guest caddies. Cunningham took a shot, and it was memorable.
Clark yelled “Man Down” after Cunningham reportedly hit the man with her drive. It was hilarious as the injury was not severe. Another man, seeing Cunningham running his way, fell to the ground as well.
Earlier this year, Cunningham went viral for pointing out a competitor.
This past week, Cunningham made the news again by speaking out against men in women’s sports.
Christians continue to be killed daily across Nigeria’s Middle Belt, with Plateau State among the regions hardest hit. Courtesy of Christian Solidarity International (CSI)
A Christian community leader who appealed for peace with Fulani Islamist herdsmen on July 21, 2026, was killed the following day in an attack by the same militant group. Two youths returning from an artisanal mining site were shot dead in the same attack, days after nine other members of the community had already been killed in a separate assault.
The killings are the latest in a wave of violence that has left Barkin Ladi Local Government Area in Plateau State among the hardest-hit parts of Nigeria’s Middle Belt this year.
The majority of Christians in Barkin Ladi and surrounding parts of Plateau State are farmers, but sustained attacks have displaced many from their land. Repeated attacks on people working in the fields have left many with no land left to farm. As a result of the ongoing violence, nationwide, more than 4 million people have been displaced, the majority of them Christian farmers.
Some communities have given up on farming altogether. Others cultivate only smaller plots close to their settlements rather than more exposed, fertile land farther away. A few communities have even abandoned tall crops such as maize because they fear the plants could conceal Fulani terrorists as they approach a village.
As a result, many have turned to artisanal mining to support their families. However, the mining sector is largely controlled by armed groups, who extort Christian miners for the right to work the sites or kill them as they return from the mines in the evening.
Boss Pam Fom, community chairman of Urwababuje Community in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Plateau State, said the attack began around 12:30 p.m., when local youths went out for artisanal mining just past a nearby river.
On their way back, they were ambushed by armed Fulani militants who had come to water cattle at the river and had concealed armed men among the animals. Two youths returning on a motorcycle were blocked on the road; when they tried to turn back, they were shot and killed at close range.
Fom said another group of youths mining nearby was accompanied by an army officer who “didn’t respond, intervene, or fire his rifle” during the shooting. Instead, the officer moved victims toward town and made a phone call. It was the youth leader, Fom said, who alerted security agents, who then arrived at the scene.
The militants attempted to move on the remaining youths at the mining site but the youths fled; the attackers then drove their cattle back toward their camp at the base of nearby hills.
The incident is the latest in a pattern of near-daily violence across Plateau State, where a coalition of indigenous youth groups reported at least 50 people killed and hundreds displaced in a single week in mid-July 2026 alone, including a December 2025 mining-site killing in Tosho, Barkin Ladi, that left 12 dead.
Fom called on security agencies to “live up to their responsibilities,” saying his account of a soldier standing by during the shooting echoes a broader pattern of complaints against the military task force responsible for the area. Operation Enduring Peace, a joint military operation covering Plateau and neighboring states, was launched in 2025 as a rebrand of the longer-running Operation Safe Haven, which had patrolled the region since 2010.
Despite that presence, residents have repeatedly described soldiers failing to respond during attacks, even when stationed nearby.
In one case in Mangu Local Government Area, a youth leader said residents ran to a nearby military checkpoint as gunmen attacked their village. They pleaded with roughly ten soldiers stationed there to intervene but were told it was not their line of duty.
In April, residents in the Gashish district of Barkin Ladi similarly accused security personnel of routinely failing to respond to distress calls during attacks. They said the troops arrived only after the violence had ended to make arrests. The frustration led residents to destroy a military checkpoint in protest.
The Berom Youth Moulders-Association has also issued a vote of no confidence in Operation Enduring Peace personnel, accusing them of negligence.
Fom noted that the militants in question have grazed in the area for a long time without prior confrontation. He said his community has never fought with or provoked them. Despite this, he said, the militants continue to destroy farmland.
Fom added that his community, already displaced once by herdsmen from its original village, has been followed to its current location. He said the attacks have cut off access to both farming and mining, the community’s main sources of livelihood.
His account of ongoing conflict over mining and grazing land comes months after Governor Caleb Mutfwang, following a wave of attacks in the same LGA, banned night mining statewide and prohibited both night grazing and grazing by underage herders. The measures reflected the government’s acknowledgment that mining sites and grazing routes have become flashpoints.
He identified an area called Blaborak, just across from the community, as a staging ground the militants use to plan attacks. He appealed for government surveillance of the site so that both grazing and farming could proceed without conflict.
Fom stressed that his community has never denied herdsmen the right to earn a living or interfered with grazing. He added that nine community members had been killed shortly before this latest incident, and that the community had “not finished mourning” those deaths.
He said the community wants peaceful coexistence but warned that separation may be the only option if the killings continue. “If push comes to shove, the only option will be death,” he said.
Fom added that the people of Plateau are peace-loving and that their parents had always counseled against revenge attacks or responding to provocation. He said the security response time has been fair, but that more must be done to stop the killings and allow residents to pursue their livelihoods safely.
The killing comes amid renewed federal attention to Plateau’s security crisis. In April 2026, Governor Mutfwang led a state delegation to meet President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa to seek federal intervention. The meeting produced a peace and security report recommending measures extending beyond military deployment, including assistance for displaced persons and livelihood restoration.
Plateau’s chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria has also said it is a shame that a state historically known for peace continues to experience unchecked violence.
Screengrab of Helen Comperatore, widow of Corey Comperatore via NewsNation interview on YouTube
Helen Comperatore, the wife of slain firefighter and Trump supporter Corey Comperatore sat down with NewsNation recently and gave her thoughts on the Trump Butler Rally shooting.
Former fire chief Corey Comperatore was shot and killed on July 14, 2024 while attending Trump’s Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Since the shooting, numerous questions have been raised about the Secret Service’s security failures at the rally.
Among the most talked about is why agents did not secure the rooftop from which 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to open fire on President Trump and several rally attendees.
Helen Comperatore, in a sit-down interview, claimed the security lapses were due to the shooting being an “inside job.”
Helen stated, “I don’t believe there was another shooter there, but I believe he (Crooks) was working with somebody. I believe it was an inside job inside the government.”
Helen Comperatore, Corey’s widow, said she believes the Secret Service got “everything” wrong.
“They had no communication with the outside. None,” Comperatore told NewsNation. “If they would’ve, they would’ve known there was a shooter, that there was someone suspicious. Why wouldn’t have you reacted from one (call)?”
“If they had held him (Trump) back from that stage and not let him go, I wouldn’t be sitting here with you today,” Comperatore continued.
She added she believes Crooks was working with someone at the time and that there was a plan for a mass shooting and assassination attempt of Trump, but that they were not the second shooter.
“He didn’t just get up that day and go do it,” Comperatore said. She added she believes it was someone inside the government who helped Crooks, but did not elaborate on the things that led her to believe this.
