Fever's Hull and Cunningham take beach day before LA matchup

On a Monday afternoon in Manhattan Beach, two Indiana Fever guards chose rest and sunlight over the narrow discipline their sport often demands — and in doing so, quietly argued for something larger: that athletes are whole people, and that wholeness, tended carefully, can be a form of preparation rather than a departure from it. Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull, contributors to a 12-8 Fever squad, spent their day off before a Wednesday clash with the Los Angeles Sparks building the kind of inner reserves — and outer visibility — that sustain long careers. Their beach day was small in scale an