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WWE Sunday Night's Main Event match card, predictions and more
For at least one night, WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event will transform into Sunday Night’s Main Event as the showcase will take place in Atlanta on Labor Day weekend.
There are only four matches on the card, but each comes with heightened stakes.
Sunday Night’s Main Event is also set to feature a live performance from hip-hop artist Quavo, who will debut an unreleased track from his forthcoming album "QROMELIFE."
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Read below for the match card and predictions on what will happen at the State Farm Arena on Sunday night. The event begins at 8 p.m. ET and can be seen on Peacock.
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A six-woman tag team match will take place to add to the longstanding feud among Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley and Jade Cargill, Michin and B-Fab. It feels as though these women have been battling for months. Paxley was added to the fray when she made her SmackDown debut to back up Flair and Bliss. But Cargill, Michin and B-Fab have continuously been scrapping with Flair, Bliss and Paxley with Cargill and Flair seemingly fighting for the top contender spot to Chelsea Green’s women’s title.
Prediction: Flair, Bliss and Paxley put away Cargill, Michin and B-Fab.
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Baron Corbin returned to WWE and made an immediate impact. He earned a United States Championship shot at SummerSlam and defeated Trick Williams to win the title. Williams has been clawing his way back to the top, eyeing a title return. But he hasn’t been the only who has messed with Corbin. Lil Yachty, Williams’ valet, has kept nipping at Corbin’s heels. He’ll have a chance to help Williams in his match against Corbin. If Lil Yachty lasts at least five minutes in the ring with Corbin, Williams will get a rematch for the U.S. title. Expect some kind of shenanigans to take place in this match.
Prediction: Lil Yachty holds out for as long as he can against Corbin
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It’s the long-awaited grudge match between WWE superstars Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton. Rhodes owes Orton another lick after getting punted in the head following their WrestleMania 42 Night 1 main event brawl. Rhodes won that match to retain the Undisputed WWE Championship. Orton got the last word with the kick that left Rhodes’ eye swollen. Since Orton’s return, the two have brawled constantly. Rhodes even went for a kill shot at one point. It caused SmackDown GM Nick Aldis to tell them if they continued to fight each other, they would never get a shot at a WWE championship again. It led to some harsh words from Orton, trying to coax Rhodes into hitting him. It didn’t work, but you could feel the tension between the two men building. This match will turn into a good ol’ fashioned slobber knocker.
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Prediction: Cody Rhodes comes out on top in this one.
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There’s no tangible title on the line in this one – there’s only perception. Who is the future of WWE? Bron Breakker has been inside his own head for weeks as he grappled with Oba Femi’s rise in WWE. Breakker was on the mend as Femi defeated Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 42, won the King of the Ring Tournament and seemingly ended Lesnar’s career at SummerSlam. Breakker failed to dispatch Seth Rollins and only became a tag team champion after Logan Paul got hurt. Breakker has shown that he still has that dog in him but Femi’s rule over the Raw roster has been cataclysmic for his opponents. Both men could very well be champions in the future, but for now, they fight to be the face of what is to come down the road.
Prediction: Breakker needs a win here to go back to the days in which he was considered the man with the loudest bark and the biggest bite. Breakker wins in what might be an upset.
Livvy Dunne and Brooks Nader join Lane's first Tiger Walk, Tricia Whitaker wants Indiana repeat & tons of meat
What a start to the Lane Kiffin era at LSU. After a week of drama surrounding a couple of players who couldn’t make an NFL roster, the Tigers steamrolled Clemson at home without those players on their roster.
It had it all. A rain delay, an awesome halftime interview, and Lane's first Tiger Walk had to have Screencaps in mind. He was accompanied by Livvy Dunne, Brooks Nader, and Theo Von as he confidently strolled to Saturday's game.
Nader, a Louisiana native, set the tone for the entire day. She was part of the festivities in the morning, and it was clear from that moment on that Clemson didn't stand a chance.
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She wasn’t there to play around. This was a business trip.
Later in the day came Lane's Tiger Walk and his entourage of Louisiana royalty. Nader returned, having made an outfit change, alongside LSU legend and Nader's "Baywatch" co-star and fellow SI Swimsuit model Livvy Dunne.
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Why was Theo Von there? Well, he's not, as far as I know, making an appearance in either "Baywatch" or SI Swimsuit, but he is a Louisiana native and evidently a friend of Kiffin's.
With an entrance like that, you had better win convincingly. We're talking 50-plus in a one-sided game where Clemson fans were at home tapping out. A 51-10 beat down works.
Something tells me they're going to have a lot of fun in Baton Rouge this season.
Now to another team who allowed points to be scored on them in Week 1. I get it not every team can dominate at home to open the season and manhandle a lesser opponent without allowing them to score a single point like Penn State did.
Some teams need a second to appear on a clock out of thin air. Teams like No. 16 Michigan who struggled and lost the game to Western Michigan until a second that had already ticked off the game clock returned from the dead.
After that miracle, the Wolverines won the game (asterisk) on a second Hail Mary attempt after the first was thrown out of the back of the end zone and showed the game clock at zero before anyone touched the ball.
Western Michigan was robbed. As sad of a game as it was for Michigan, fans storming the field after such an atrocious performance tells you exactly where they are as a football program.
This might count as a win in the record books, but this is a loss to everyone else.
- Dennis from Mesa, Az:
Good morning Sean, Dennis checking in here from Mesa, Az.
Later today (before it hits a balmy 110 degrees) I’ll be grilling up these two beautiful ribeyes (4 1/2 pounds total) prepped with a light garlic and Montreal Steak rub.
They’ll be served up with fresh asparagus and a couple of large taters slathered with butter, sour cream and chives.
Oh, did I mention the kickass bottle of wine we’ll also be having?
Thanks, have a great Sunday and keep up the fine work Sean👍👏
SeanJo
Fantastic job. This is what peak grilling season is all about. Dennis your meat looks great. Keep sending it in, especially if you're slapping your meat on the grill all year long, which I assume is the case out in Mesa.
- Jim T in San Diego writes:
How could I not think of you when I saw this:
SeanJo
Thanks Jim. It's an honor to be thought of whenever you see a bunch of meat.
- Mike writes:
Just got back from an Alaskan cruise and this guy is very well represented.
SeanJo
Speaking of honors. It's also an honor to be thought of whenever you see Bigfoot apparel out in the wild too. If I'm being completely honest, you're much more likely to have this sort of encounter with Bigfoot than you are to spot one in the woods.
- Guy writes:
16 pork shoulders!
SeanJo
Another awesome submission of meat. Guy, thanks for sending in your meat and keep it coming. I'll never get tired of looking at it.
- Bob writes:
Hey Sean, greetings from North Las Vegas. We’ve had a break in the triple digits, and the weekend has been a nice mid 90s. Nice to be able to get on the patio and spend some quality time watching football.
Friday tossed a flat iron on the grill and paired it with some stuffing. Saturday grilled some chicken and paired it with some green beans.
Sean, thanks for all the content that you put out continue with the solid work and who has it better than us.
SeanJo
What a weekend of grilling put in here. Great job Bob. Keep the grill going, keep slapping your meat on, and keep sending your meat my way.
- Gen X Warren M writes:
Hey SeanJo,
Saw this bumper sticker at a fancy mall.
SeanJo
Some people are most straightforward than others. If nothing else, you can respect their willingness to express honesty in the form of a bumper sticker.
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That's it for this Sunday. Football is all the way back. The Lane Kiffin era is off to an unbelievable start. There needs to be a formal investigation done on that second returning from the dead and saving Michigan.
ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!
The best part is there's more football today and tomorrow. Keep up the incredible work with your meat out there, I want to see it.
Happy Labor Day. The inbox and the DMs are always open. My email is sean.joseph@outkick.com and you can find me here on Twitter and here on Instagram.
My father taught me the dignity of labor: We ‘get to’ live, work and love
My father froze when he saw his professor washing cars.
It was 1962, and Zafar Nomani was a visiting teacher at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., newly arrived from India on a fellowship. One day, riding past a church car wash, he spotted his professor among the people scrubbing down cars beside his students.
For the rest of his life, my father treasured that moment.
"I saw the dignity of labor," he would tell us.
More than six decades later, on this Labor Day weekend, my family is mourning my father, who died in early August at the age of 93 in our adopted hometown of Morgantown, W.V. And as I negotiate new relationships with his power washer, his weed trimmer, his tools and the daily chores that he quietly managed, pushing a cart at our local Kroger on Patterson Avenue, I find myself reliving – and rewriting – the story of my life with him.
For most of my life, I thought I was challenging the patriarchy. Now I realize I grew and became the investigative journalist that I am because of the patriarch in my life.
I arrived in America from India in the summer of 1969 as a four-year-old girl and I grew up in the 1970s with feminism, women’s rights and Gloria Steinem, who died this week at 92, just a year younger than my father. I learned to interrogate male power, religious authority and the restrictions that societies imposed on women.
I still believe in the work of empowering women and girls.
But in my father's absence, I have come to understand something I failed to fully appreciate while he was alive: the quiet and largely invisible power of a good patriarch.
I spent much of my life believing my strength came from resisting my father’s authority; after his death, as I grieve his absence from this world, I recognize that much of my strength, intellect and purpose came from the invisible labor he performed to make my independence possible.
I thought I was overcoming the patriarch; I now see that – with his devoted and beloved wife beside him – my father was performing the quiet service that allowed me to become the woman capable of challenging him.
That epiphany has also changed the meaning of "labor" for me.
Labor, I now understand, isn't just the work we perform from nine to five, as Dolly Parton, another national treasure lost this summer, sang. Some of the most important labor of our lives is never entered on a time sheet. It is the ordinary caregiving through which people provide one another shelter, safety, security.
This summer, for two months, I helped care for my father with my family in hospital rooms at our local hospital. His last breath came in Room 8.
Amid the oxygen tubes, medications, alarms and fear, I fell in love with my father all over again. I resurrected the spirit of the girl who once lay against his belly listening to stories about the kings and queens of India. I remembered the girl who arrived in the U.S. At the time, my father was a Ph.D. student and our family lived in poverty in graduate-student housing in Piscataway, N.J., in a humble red two-bedroom home converted from military barracks on Bevier Road. In the winters, my parents turned on the oven to heat the home. But my parents still found a way to throw me a birthday party in our backyard.
The grievances and misunderstandings that accumulate over a lifetime fell away.
What remained was the gratitude my father had modeled for me through the way he lived his life.
His philosophy was not 'I have to,' but 'I get to'
My father never lived from the premise that life had victimized him. He didn't organize his days around the complaints of "I have to..." I have to work. I have to study. I have to take care of my family.
His philosophy was exactly the opposite: the gratitude of "I get to..." I get to. I get to work. I get to study. I get to take care of my family.
That philosophy had been forged long ago in his response to adversity and suffering.
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Born in the summer of 1933 in India under British colonial rule, my father survived the Bengal famine of 1943 when the British diverted food from India to military troops fighting in World War II. As a boy in Hyderabad, India, he stood in lines for food aid from the United States. Tears came to his eyes decades later when he remembered the coarse red sorghum scraping his throat as he swallowed grain he said had been intended as animal feed.
But the lesson he took from hunger wasn't "Look what I suffered."
It was "I get to eat."
After being wed to my mother in 1962 in an arranged marriage, he confided in her on their wedding night his philosophy of transcending suffering with a simple purpose: "Serve humanity." That led him to the car wash moment in Kansas.
Years later, while studying at Rutgers University, my mother babysat other people's children to help raise enough money for airfare for my brother, Mustafa, and me to reunite with our parents.
When we moved to Morgantown, W.V., in 1975, and he began building his career as a professor of nutrition, he worked from morning until night. He didn't begrudge those hours.
Instead his ethos was plainly simple: "I get to work."
He rarely announced this philosophy. Like many men of his generation, he wasn't fluent in the modern language of feelings.
His love language was service.
And what that service meant for me, especially as a girl growing up in the 1970s, was remarkable.
A stricter interpretation of Islam was spreading around the world, fueled in part by the religious forces rising from Saudi Arabia and the new Islamic Republic of Iran. Once, my father was told that I needed to cover my legs because otherwise they were haram, or Islamically forbidden.
My father didn't stop me from running track. He was a girl dad before it was a thing.
One cold, rainy day in the spring of 1978, after I had run a mile race on the track at the West Virginia University Coliseum, I stood weeping at the finish line because my hands were so painfully frozen. My father swooped down from the bleachers, took my hands inside his and breathed his hot breath over them, again and again, thawing my fingers.
He didn't complain about the rain. He didn't complain about standing there in the cold. His actions said: "I get to care for my daughter."
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My father’s labor of love often happened behind the wheel, driving us everywhere — to school, to opportunities, to airports, to the next place where one of us might grow.
In the summer of 1981, my father drove me to Pittsburgh International Airport for a National Science Foundation camp in Tahlequah, Okla. While I was away, he turned his attention to another journey: helping my mother, Sajida, realize her dream of becoming the first woman in her family to start a business. He stayed up through the night, hand-drawing the window sign for her boutique, Ain’s International, named using the last part of my middle name. Then he drove around town, stapling promotional flyers for her store on bulletin boards around campus.
He saw dignity in every act of service: "I get to help my wife."
She built a store on High Street in downtown Morgantown that became a home away from home for generations of college students. They sat on stools at her counter and told her their stories, their heartbreaks and their troubles.
As a first-generation immigrant, my father understood that opportunity wasn't something to hoard. It was something to create for others.
When I decided to become a journalist, my father knew well the expectations of our culture: a daughter eventually left her father's home for her husband's.
But when I wanted an internship in New York City in the summer of 1983, he got into our Subaru and drove me from our home on Cottonwood Street to an interview at Harper's Magazine on Park Avenue.
Years later, in Room 8, he still remembered one of the details of that trip. After dropping me off, he drove to New Jersey because the parking was cheaper. He had never complained to me about the cost of parking. He reveled in the act of service: "I get to drive my daughter toward an opportunity."
When I went to graduate school in Washington, D.C., in the late summer of 1986, he climbed back behind the wheel of our Subaru and drove with me again, helping me hunt for an apartment on Massachusetts Avenue and Embassy Row for a rent of $300 a month that my mother and he paid.
His work was sacred: "I get to help my daughter build her life."
But growing up inside that shelter didn't mean I always recognized it.
When I was in my late 20s, a successful reporter at the Wall Street Journal's Washington, D.C., bureau, I went to a psychologist carrying the grievances young adults can accumulate against their parents. I catalogued what my father had done wrong, leaving my brother and me in India with his parents while he settled with my mother in the U.S., leaving me with "abandonment issues." I even persuaded my father to come into a therapy session on Wisconsin Avenue NW and listen as I poured out my anger.
He could have dismissed me. He could have invoked his authority. He could have walked out. Instead, he listened.
I even complained that he hadn't made me a baby book as American children enjoyed. He didn't grouse. He filled out a baby book for me with hand-drawn pictures.
Again, when confronted with my pain, his instinct wasn't to defend himself. It was to do something.
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When I went to Pakistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to report on extremism, I couldn't have imagined what awaited me. Then my friend and colleague from the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped after he left a home I had rented in Karachi.
I called home. My father told me, "It is your farz," or duty, "to help your friend."
That was another definition of my father's sense of labor. Duty wasn't drudgery. Duty was love and friendship expressed through action.
Then, in one of the darkest periods of my life, I saw my father's sense of sacred duty express itself for me.
Weeks later, I learned I was pregnant. I had fallen in love with a boyfriend in Karachi, and we had talked about marriage. But amid the dragnet of intelligence and military officials surrounding my house as they searched for Danny, he disappeared, frightened by what was unfolding around us.
I broke the news to my mother, afraid of how my father would react. In Pakistan, it's a crime to be unmarried and pregnant.
Then my father sent me an email with just three words: "I love you."
There was no lecture. No shame. His message, as I now understand it, was a divine gift: You get to be a mother.
And, characteristically, he turned those words into work.
Over the next months, my father finished a new bedroom in his home for my baby and me. When he picked me up at the airport, his fingernails were coated with the baby-blue paint that is still on those walls.
Later, when I raised my son as a single mother, my father retired and quietly stepped into another job with a clear mission: Helping care for his grandson, reading the morning newspaper with my boy on his lap. During the challenging middle-school years, he moved in with us, sleeping on the lower bunk of my son's bunkbed and cooking us biryani lamb-and-rice dishes for dinner with packets of Shan Foods boxed spices.
Even the most mundane crises became occasions for service — and, inevitably, for science.
When a tree fell in our yard, he put my son's bicycle helmet on his own head as a homemade safety helmet and went outside to study the problem. He examined the angles, the weight, the branches and the physics. He approached the challenge with the same zest he tackled every adversity: "I get to clear the tree."
When I interviewed him about his strategy, he articulated the scientific method he had instilled in me: "Life is multivariate."
As a scientist, my father studied the Islamic practice of fasting from sunup to sundown during the month of Ramadan and became a pioneer in research that would later help inform what we now understand as intermittent fasting.
But the most important experiment he conducted, at least for me, was an experiment in unconditional love. Ours was a family that was an experiment in assimilation, integration and authenticity.
Once I asked him why he hadn't shamed me when I returned home pregnant without a wedding ring.
Life was an experiment, he told me. Learn from everything.
That was how I learned to become a researcher, an investigator and a journalist. He taught me to look at evidence, revise conclusions and challenge assumptions, even when they are our own.
Most remarkably, he was willing to apply that scientific openness to himself.
When I went to our mosque in Morgantown in the fall of 2003 and an elder told me, "Sister, take the back door," my father stood with me and supported me when I walked in through the front door. As a board member of the mosque, he wept in the kitchen, pleading with the other board members, "Make room for our daughters."
Mosque leaders didn't agree with him. Eventually, he surrendered his authority and stepped down from the board.
At home, he and I often debated gender dynamics and global politics in our kitchen.
I argued with him fiercely. I challenged him. And, each time, he allowed himself to be challenged by his daughter. And he kept supporting me, one cold morning standing with me and other women at the intersection of Johnnycake Road and Adamsview Road in Windsor Mill, Md., holding a sign we'd printed at Kinko's in the pre-dawn morning, advocating for "#MuslimReform" and women's rights.
When I faced online death threats and character assassination, my father invented a moniker, "Zaf4Peace," to defend his daughter on comment boards.
For years, I thought my strength came from pushing against him. Now I understand that my strength came because of his courage in giving me room to push.
An immigrant father in a new culture, so foreign from his own, he grew with me, and, in that shelter, I was able to grow.
That recognition makes the ordinary moments feel more poignant now.
He wasn’t perfect. Neither was I. And I carry many regrets for decades I wish I could relive from a place of gratitude for the father who was actually in front of me, rather than for some Hallmark version of the patriarchy imagined.
I have understood in my father’s absence that we were on a lifelong journey together. In 2011, when I got a seat on a flight to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to cover the military tribunal of the man who confessed to murdering my friend Danny and to orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, I could have taken a taxi to Andrews Air Force Base. Instead, I asked my father to drive me. And I got cranky when he braked at green lights.
How irrelevant that annoyance suddenly seems. How precious the ride feels now.
Years later, when I was struggling through heartbreak, a psychologist introduced me to positive psychology and told me, "Plant flowers; don’t feed the wolf."
I repeated the words to my father.
He went to Home Depot, came back with potted rose bushes and planted them for me. Then he listened quietly as I wept beside him. He didn't have words for me, just quiet labor.
Looking back, I see that pattern everywhere.
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Love expressed itself in our lives through labor. The labor of warming your daughter's frozen hands. The labor of tending to a fallen tree. The labor of changing your mind. The labor of planting flowers.
The labor of defending your daughter's right to walk through the front door. The labor of getting up every morning and looking around at the people entrusted to your care and not thinking, I have to take medicine, but: I get to. Even in sickness, my father lived in gratitude, whispering, "Thank you," through the respiratory treatments that marked his last days.
This summer, the man who had spent a lifetime caring for us became the one who needed care. In doing so, he gave us the precious gift of being able to serve him. At his bedside was the next generation he loved – Safiyyah, Samir, Shibli and Kenzy – whispering their adoration softly into his ear.
And then came the final reversal. This summer, in Room 8, my father became the one whose hands grew cold.
Nearly five decades after that rainy track meet, I sat beside him in Room 8 and held those hands that had once enclosed mine. His muscles were tired. His body was failing. I held his hands, and I breathed my warm air onto his fingers, just as he had once breathed onto mine.
This summer, I was able to say again and again: "I get to care for my father." His lesson of unconditional love and service had come full circle.
Even after his last breath, he had one more lesson to teach me about love.
When it came time for my father's funeral prayer, I didn't demand to walk through the mosque's front door.
I stood sentry outside.
There was a time when I might have understood that moment principally as a confrontation with patriarchy.
I understood it differently now. I was there with my father.
For one day, the argument was no longer important. Honoring him was.
The professor whom my father saw washing cars in Kansas in 1962 couldn't have ever known what the young scholar from India would carry away from that encounter.
My father called it the dignity of labor.
It took me a lifetime to understand how completely my father embodied that value.
And it took his passing from this Earth for me to recognize how completely he had taught it to me.
The dignity of labor isn't simply the dignity of a paycheck, a profession or physical work.
It is the dignity in serving another human being without humiliation or reward. It is the dignity in making another person's life possible. It is the dignity of doing the work nobody applauds.
It is the dignity of a father standing in the rain, warming his daughter's hands.
And this Labor Day, with my father's weed trimmer and power washer waiting for me, I feel his presence everywhere amid his absence. I finally understand the inheritance he left behind.
There is work to do, serving our families and this world.
And we get to do it.
Sydney Sweeney, Scooter Braun romance faces biggest challenge yet as expert warns couple to 'be prepared'
Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun's relationship reached a new milestone one year after the pair first met.
The power couple was recently spotted on a casual smoothie date with his two children in Los Angeles, Calif., according to images obtained by TMZ.
While Sweeney, 28, and Braun, 45, have remained private about their budding romance, experts warned that the couple needs to "be prepared" now that kids are part of the relationship.
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Licensed clinical psychotherapist Robin Hamilton emphasized the importance of treating "the kids as if they are individuals who didn't choose to be celebrities."
"You want to keep their personal lives personal and their parents' celebrity lives theirs," Hamilton told Fox News Digital. Just keep it separate because people are going to be approaching these kids. They're going to ask them questions ... So they have to be prepared.
"Prepare the kids to navigate those questions and how people are going to approach them if they want them to be in the public life. I would say like being deliberate about spending quality time where there's nobody commenting on you, there are no cameras there and just, you know, not putting all that pressure on the kids right now, because it's a lot."
She added, "We see what happens to people who are child stars when they grow up. Sometimes they can't handle all of that stuff."
Braun and Sweeney first sparked romance rumors in June 2025 at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos' wedding in Venice, Italy.
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Originally it was reported the two were "casually" hooking up, but by December, insiders hinted the relationship was more serious.
"Scooter and Sydney are going strong and things between them are great," a source told People at the time. "They're in a committed relationship and things are serious."
Braun was Sweeney's date for the April premiere of "Euphoria" season three, and she hard-launched their romance in May after sharing a photo on social media with him at the premiere.
Nicole Moore, communications and relationship expert, explained how Sweeney and Braun work well together because they "appear to be prioritizing quality time together over posing for the cameras."
"Most celebrity romances have a short expiration date, so the fact that Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun have reached the stage of Sydney being involved with his kids is significant," Moore told Fox News Digital.
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"Many parents don’t introduce a love interest to their children unless they’re confident the connection will be a lasting one, so it’s possible that Scooter sees Sydney as a long-term mate."
Braun was previously married to entrepreneur and activist Yael Cohen from 2014 until their divorce was finalized in 2022, and they share three children.
Sweeney's relationship with the mega-manager appeared to be stronger than ever, but Moore warned that dynamics may shift if she's "expected to take on a parental figure role."
"When children are involved, there’s a potential for a couple to get closer because they’re likely spending even more time together, but there’s also potential for the romance to dry up if all of their available time is spent on the kids," Moore said.
"It will be important for Scooter and Sweeney to maintain date nights and consistent romantic activities if they want their relationship to survive this new stage."
Moore noted that Sweeney's age and rising career in front of the camera could also potentially impact their relationship.
"Sydney is only 28 years old, so her career rise is likely the biggest focus right now," Moore said. "Based on how fiercely Sweeney has fought for her roles and how committed she’s been to her career, she’s unlikely to give up any career time to be a parental figure at this stage.
"Even the most successful actors in Hollywood often fear roles drying up if they’re not actively working, so Sydney likely feels pressure to keep performing."
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She added, "Sydney is most likely looking to be present and engaged with Scooter's children when she’s with them, but she might not be ready to be a full-on parent yet."
One year into the relationship, celebrity matchmaker April Davis insisted that their "shared lifestyles" play an important role in the success of their romance.
"Sydney is incredibly successful, and being with someone like Scooter who understands paparazzi hounds and media buzz can make things easier," the founder of Luma Luxury Matchmaking told Fox News Digital.
"That said, they’re in pretty different places in life. Scooter already has three children and Sydney’s career is still taking off in a major way. Add in the age difference, travel, and demanding schedules, and there’s a lot of moving parts for them to navigate."
She added, "I think making their already-full lives work together will be the biggest challenge for Sydney and Scooter. Plenty of power couples make it work, but it takes real communication skills, effort, and time."
Sweeney was previously engaged to producer Jonathan Davino, who she was in a relationship with from 2018 until early 2025, when she called off their engagement.
Why couples should flirt with each other every day — plus the ‘red flag’ to avoid
Flirting may do more than spark romantic interest — experts say it can also benefit emotional well-being, as long as it stays within appropriate boundaries.
Dr. Mindy DeSeta, a clinical sexologist and mental health counselor in Miami, Florida, defined flirting as a "one-on-one interpersonal experience," delivering a message that someone is interested in learning more about another person.
Flirting in general "feels good," the expert told Fox News Digital, adding that there are both emotional and physiological effects.
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Flirting may activate brain chemicals involved in pleasure, reward and social bonding, DeSeta said. It can also lower the stress hormone cortisol.
"It builds confidence, it's a positive social interaction that improves self-esteem," she went on. "What I also hear is that people want to flirt in general because it makes them feel attractive and desired … That's a normal human feeling."
DeSeta views flirting as a signal of attraction and believes it should remain between romantic partners or people pursuing a romantic relationship.
"It’s really hard to be platonic because it does release that bonding hormone," she said.
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For those who feel the need to flirt with someone who is not their partner, the expert suggested this could be a "red flag" for what’s happening in the relationship.
"As a sexologist, I'm a huge believer that we must date and flirt with our partner every day," DeSeta said.
It's normal for relationships to sometimes need a "reboot," she said.
"In one marriage, you're going to get many, many marriages… you'll find people getting stale or very hollow in their relationship, and that's when you will start looking outside to get those needs met, especially in flirting, because it's something that's very easy to do."
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If flirting begins to extend beyond the relationship — from a coffee-shop barista to a colleague at the office — DeSeta advised stopping "immediately" and redirecting that energy toward the partner.
"Be vulnerable and go in with, ‘I miss this about us. I want to bring this back into our relationship,’" she said. "And don't forget to share, ‘This is what would make me feel attractive and desired by you.’"
Dr. Anna Elton, a licensed marriage and family therapist and clinical sexologist in Massachusetts, said couples struggling with intimacy often miss the fun they shared at the beginning of their relationships.
As couples devote more attention to schedules, errands, bills and child care, other aspects of the relationship can get pushed aside, Elton said. Affection, physical touch, flirting and playfulness may become less frequent, making room for "stress, conflict and growing resentment.
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Body changes, aging and stress can also affect how confident or desirable people feel, Elton noted.
"When couples have been together for a long time, I ask them, ‘So, how do you flirt with your partner? How do you let them know about your erotic intentions?’ And they say, ‘Oh, we don’t flirt.’"
Creating a "new language of flirting" can help couples reconnect and spark intimacy, Elton said.
Elton suggested small ways to rebuild connection, including a 20-second hug or a six-second kiss.
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Small acts of self-care, such as applying lotion or following a skincare routine, can also help people "feel more connected with themselves," she said.
DeSeta cautioned, however, that flirting may not always be welcomed by a partner, depending on timing and mood.
"I’ve heard from my couples, ‘They were trying to flirt with me when I was unloading the dishwasher,’" she noted as an example. "There’s a time and place for flirting, and you have to be in the right headspace."
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"Maybe when someone's in a stressed mood, they're really focused on work, or they're just doing a task that does not make them feel sexy – this is not the right time."
Positive signals from a partner, such as leaning in, making eye contact and smiling, can indicate that flirting is welcome. Still, partners should communicate about when flirting feels appropriate, DeSeta added.
‘Destroying the American way of life’: El-Sayed’s political orbit complicates effort to moderate his image
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is seeking to appear more moderate to voters while, at the same time, maintaining ties to individuals who take positions far to the left of anything he publicly endorses.
Since launching his Senate bid in April 2025, El-Sayed has distanced himself from a number of positions he had previously held and scrubbed much of his left-wing pre-campaign content from the internet. He has also repeatedly insisted that he is "not a socialist."
While attempting to convince voters that characterizations of him as a left-wing ideologue are inaccurate, El-Sayed has appeared at campaign events with and accepted endorsements from a range of political allies and supporters with controversial records or views.
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Beyond campaigning with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who claimed that America "deserved" 9/11, El-Sayed has also linked himself with terror-sympathetic Islamic clerics, individuals accused of antisemitism and several prominent socialists and socialist-aligned activists.
"Abdul has made clear that no one speaks for his campaign besides himself and his campaign spokespeople," El-Sayed campaign spokesman Cole Wozniak told Fox News Digital.
El-Sayed's campaign has attempted to flip the narrative on Republicans, pointing out that Mike Rogers, the GOP nominee facing off against him, has his own set of controversial associations.
Some individuals affiliated with the Rogers campaign, which did not respond to a request for comment, have also cast doubt on the outcome of the 2020 election and advocated for banning gay marriage. Nonetheless, Republicans have made El-Sayed's affiliations with controversial figures a focal point of their campaign in Michigan.
"I am not somebody who is a socialist," El-Sayed told CNN in July. "I believe in capitalism, I just believe that capitalism has to be regulated."
Despite this assertion, and multiple others like it, El-Sayed has surrounded himself with socialists during his tenure as a public figure.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont described by some as the avatar of socialism in America, threw his support behind El-Sayed’s ill-fated 2018 gubernatorial run. The Vermont socialist was also among the first to back El-Sayed’s 2026 Senate bid, endorsing him on the same day he launched his campaign.
Sanders isn’t the only socialist backing El-Sayed’s run for Senate. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are all vocal supporters.
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El-Sayed has long aligned himself with the Democratic Socialists of America, only recently distancing himself from the ascendant left-wing organization as he seeks to win a competitive Senate race.
Between 2017 and 2020, the Michigan Democrat spoke at six events held by Democratic Socialists of America chapters, including a 2019 fundraiser where he served as the keynote speaker. Additionally, DSA officials told Politico in July that they were mobilizing resources to help El-Sayed win his Democratic primary election.
"I'm not technically or practically DSA," El-Sayed told the Wall Street Journal in July.
Socialist organizers, however, have called him "a longtime friend of Detroit DSA."
Most recently, news broke that William Lawrence, a Democratic Socialists of America member running for Congress in Michigan who has campaigned alongside El-Sayed, called for "destroying the American way of life" on a podcast hosted by Marxist activists.
"I'm wondering how we can inspire a sense of abundance for people in the United States, while frankly, destroying the American way of life and the negative connotations and material realities that has come to mean," he said on the episode.
A strong showing with Michigan’s Arab American community helped carry El-Sayed to victory in August’s Democratic primary. El-Sayed has been deeply involved with the state’s Muslim community, including relationships with figures who have made controversial statements about Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah.
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In April, Amir Makled, a man running for the University of Michigan's board of regents who celebrated dead members of Hezbollah — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization — as "martyr[s]," introduced El-Sayed at a campaign rally.
Then, in June, El-Sayed headlined the opening of Imam Hassan Qazwini’s Islamic Institute of America, offering him his "hearty congratulations" and calling his mosque "incredible."
Qazwini has a history of making controversial comments. Among these have been his claim that Israel was behind ISIS, calling a slain leader of Hezbollah a hero of the "resistance," and describing Sanders as honorable "even though he is a Jew."
Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign denounced Qazwini as antisemitic. Qazwini has since compelled his congregation to vote for El-Sayed, arguing that doing so is a "moral responsibility" and "religious duty" in a July sermon.
At the opening of Qazwini’s institute, El-Sayed shared the stage with Sheikh Fadhel al-Sahlani, a cleric who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack and downplayed the number of people killed in the Holocaust.
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On Sept. 5, El-Sayed is scheduled to share a different stage at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention with Qazwini.
Also slated to be in attendance are Imam Baqir Berry, who prayed that God would grant Islamic holy soldiers in Gaza "a mighty victory;" and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center terrorism case but was never charged in connection with the attacks.
El-Sayed’s religious views have puzzled some observers. While the Democrat supports easy access to abortion and child sex changes, he has also expressed a desire to live in accordance with Sharia law and describes his faith as important to his outlook on life.
A number of people El-Sayed has appeared with or promoted have ties to the Nation of Islam, a religious organization founded by Black nationalists in the 1930s that is not considered an orthodox Muslim sect by most Islamic leaders.
The Nation of Islam teaches that Black people are the original human beings and that White people were created by an evil Black scientist named Yakub. Their doctrine portrays the White race as inherently corrupt and historically responsible for oppressing Black people, though it also asserts Black racial superiority.
Currently, the Nation of Islam is under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan.
Farrakhan has accused Jews of being "wicked deceivers of the American people" who have "sucked their blood," later suggesting that "people will never be free in this country" until they are liberated from the "tremendous amount of influence" he said Jews exert over the American government. He has also called Jews "termites" and suggested that White people generally are "the skunk of the planet earth" and not fully evolved.
Despite the Nation of Islam’s controversial positions, El-Sayed has maintained ties to individuals affiliated with it.
Marcus Muhammad, a small-town mayor and minister with the Nation of Islam, posted a photograph of himself arm-in-arm with El-Sayed backstage at his election night watch party. The leader of the Detroit chapter of the Nation of Islam, meanwhile, posted a picture of him and El-Sayed shaking hands at a 2025 NAACP event.
El-Sayed also touted the backing of an influential Detroit-area pastor who had previously praised Farrakhan, issuing a press release announcing the endorsement and appearing on his podcast.
"We need someone to give us direction. I believe we have a leader here that can organize us," the pastor said of Farrakhan in 2013. "They want to silence people who tell us the truth, and we know why this is happening and who is doing it, but we need some help with how to overcome it."
Republicans are leaning into El-Sayed’s proximity to extremist figures as part of their strategy in the lead-up to Election Day. The approach has already seen some success, with a few high-profile defections from Jewish Democrats bolstering the party’s midterm hopes.
El-Sayed's camp, however, maintains that Rogers has some skeletons of his own.
"Mike Rogers has filled his campaign team with members who ‘complained about women in politics’ and defended a group chat ‘filled with praise for Hitler, gas chamber jokes, racial slurs, and rape comments,’ and he refused to speak out after one of his senior campaign leaders admitted to dismissing victims’ allegations of childhood sexual abuse," Wozniak, the El-Sayed spokesman, told Fox News Digital. "Mike Rogers is a corrupt politician who’s only focused on enriching himself and serving his special interest donors, and he will be rejected at the ballot box this November."
Michigan-Western Michigan clock controversy leaves players, fans and a rules analyst puzzled
Controversy.
It’s a word that could either describe the last month of the college football offseason or the last 10 months of the Michigan Wolverines’ football program. Saturday night’s game underscored the point as the Wolverines, somehow, walked out of the Big House with a victory, while their opponents, the Western Michigan Broncos, were left asking: What the heck just happened?
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It was supposed to be clean air and blue skies for Michigan coming into the first week of the 2026 season. Kyle Whittingham was set to erase any talk of what the Wolverines’ offseason was all about – dealing with the fallout of the Sherrone Moore scandal. Saturday night represented the perfect opportunity to do that. Instead, timing and clocks were all the rage.
Western Michigan thought they were going to leave Ann Arbor with a massive upset victory. Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood tried a last-second heave to reach the end zone and win the game on a Hail Mary throw. His pass sailed through the back of the end zone.
The Broncos started to celebrate. It would have been one of the biggest wins in school history.
In the words of the famed college football personality Lee Corso, "Not so fast my friend."
Officials on the field called for a review. It already seemed as though the game was over. Those watching the game at home saw the clock hit triple zeroes. The ball seemingly hit the hand of a Western Michigan defender when the TV scorebug saw the zeroes on the clock.
But after conferring, officials determined there was one second left on the clock.
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"I definitely thought the game was over because there were zeroes on the clock," Underwood said.
Instead, Underwood got one more chance to fire up a Hail Mary pass. This time, to perfection. J.J. Buchanan came down with the ball and scored the game-winning 47-yard touchdown. Michigan won the game, 13-12.
"One for the history books right here," Whittingham said.
So, what happened?
The Big Ten Conference released a statement, backing up the officials’ decision. Here was the statement word-for-word.
"Following video review, it was determined Western Michigan’s #18 started his jump from an established out-of-bounds position (left foot) and made contact with the ball with one second remaining on the clock. As shown in the provided video of what was viewed during the replay process, a side-by-side view of the play and the game clock, using a direct shot of the game clock in the stadium, was used to determine the final ruling.
"Eighty-five minutes prior to the game, all broadcast cameras used for the replay system, including the camera on the game clock, are synced using a strobe system to ensure all cameras are aligned.
"Per NCAA Football rule 4-2-3-a, ‘A ball not in player control, other than a kick that scores a field goal, is out of bounds when it touches the ground, a player, a game official or anything else that is out-of-bound, or that is on or outside a boundary line.’ and thus the clock is stopped."
The Mid-American Conference Commissioner Dr. Jon Steinbrecher also released a statement on the issue.
"Upon the conclusion of the Western Michigan-Michigan football game, the Mid-American Conference and Western Michigan contacted the Big Ten office to seek clarification regarding the replay review and the placement of time back on the game clock," he said.
"The Big Ten explained that the ball touched a player who was out of bounds before the clock reached 00:00, resulting in one additional play being awarded. The Big Ten subsequently provided video and audio of the play, which confirmed the explanation provided to us.
"I commend Western Michigan for an outstanding effort and a well-played game and I offer my congratulations to Michigan.
"I also appreciate the collaborative efforts of the Big Ten office and its prompt response in reviewing the play and providing the requested clarification."
NBC rules analyst Terry McAulay was as confused as anyone else.
"Talking to a producer and he tells us our in-set clock is in sync – is the actual stadium clock," McAulay said. "The ball isn't even close to touching a player when it goes to zero. Their Hawk-Eye system either had a different sync or whatever, and they came up with one second when it touched the players.
"I don't see how that happened, assuming our clock is correct. The ball is clearly still in the air when the clock goes to zero on our screens."
Western Michigan’s hopes were shattered and players looked a bit shell-shocked on the sideline.
College football fans watching at home were confused.
"Sick to my stomach is the way I explain my feelings about that game," Western Michigan defensive end Dom Nichols said.
Michigan avoided its biggest upset since losing to Appalachian State at the beginning of the 2007 season. They were 33-point favorites then. On Saturday, they were 27.5-point favorites.
Western Michigan has never beaten an opponent in the top 20 of the Associated Press poll.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Should you use a separate computer for online banking?
When so much of your financial life lives online, protecting the device you use to access your money deserves some extra thought. Nancy from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recently wrote to us asking whether keeping banking and investments on an entirely separate computer could provide another layer of protection.
"I've had several clients tell me they have bought a computer that is only used for online banking, financial institutions and anything to do with their investment accounts. Is this a good strategy for protecting some of your assets? What are the upsides and what are the downsides?"
Nancy, yes. Using a separate computer only for banking, investments and other financial accounts can add a meaningful layer of security. I especially like this approach for someone with substantial savings or retirement assets. It can also make sense if you simply want to keep your financial life separated from everything else you do online.
However, buying another computer will not make your accounts untouchable. How you set it up and how you use it are what make the strategy worthwhile.
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Think about what happens on the computer you use every day. You open email, click links and shop online. Maybe you also use social media, download documents or install browser extensions. All of that creates opportunities for malware, phishing attempts or malicious software to reach your device. A dedicated financial computer removes much of that exposure.
On this computer, you would skip email and casual web browsing. Online shopping would happen on another device. Ideally, you would install very little software beyond what the computer needs for security and accessing your financial accounts. That gives attackers fewer opportunities to reach the device you use to manage your money. Our guide to safely viewing your bank and retirement accounts online also explains why protecting the device you use is an important part of financial security.
The biggest advantage is isolation. If malware gets onto the laptop you use for email or everyday browsing, your dedicated financial computer remains separate.
There are several other benefits worth considering:
For people who do not need to check investments constantly, that separation can be especially useful.
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This is where you need to be careful. A banking-only computer can reduce certain risks, but it cannot protect you from every way criminals may try to reach your money.
If you reuse a password that later appears in a data breach, having a separate computer will not solve the problem. Every financial account should have its own strong password. A password manager can help create and securely store unique passwords for you.
Many financial institutions still use text messages to send security codes. Criminals may try to hijack a victim's phone number through SIM swapping or an unauthorized number transfer. If that happens, they could potentially receive verification messages without ever touching your banking computer. Our guide on how to avoid a malicious SIM swapping scam explains how protections such as a carrier PIN or number-transfer lock can help reduce that risk.
Suppose you receive an alarming text on your phone claiming someone transferred thousands of dollars from your account. You walk over to the dedicated computer and type the website address included in that message. If the address leads to a phishing site, the separate computer cannot protect you from entering your login information there. That is why I recommend bookmarking your financial institutions' legitimate websites and using those bookmarks rather than following addresses sent through unexpected emails or texts.
A computer that spends most of its life sitting unused can create another problem. It still needs security updates. Operating system and browser updates regularly fix vulnerabilities that criminals may try to exploit. Keep automatic updates enabled and restart the computer when necessary. If you have not used the financial computer in several weeks, let it finish installing updates before signing into your accounts.
If you decide to take this approach, keep the computer's purpose very narrow. The less you do on it, the more useful the separation becomes.
Keep Windows, macOS or ChromeOS updated automatically. Your browser should stay updated too. Do not keep postponing restarts when an important security update requires one.
Reserve it for your bank, brokerage accounts, retirement plans, credit cards and other important financial services. Avoid email and social media. Do your online shopping and everyday browsing on another device.
I would also keep strong antivirus software running on the dedicated computer. Look for protection that can detect malware, phishing attempts and other online threats in real time. Even on a computer with limited use, antivirus software adds another layer of protection in case a malicious website or other threat reaches the device. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at Cyberguy.com
Go directly to your financial institution's legitimate website and save it as a bookmark. Then use that bookmark whenever you need to sign in. Be especially careful with financial links that arrive through text messages or emails, even when they appear urgent.
Never reuse your banking password somewhere else. If another website suffers a data breach, criminals may try stolen usernames and passwords on financial accounts. A password manager can create strong, unique passwords and remember them for you.
Enable multi-factor authentication on every financial account that supports it. If your institution offers a passkey or physical security key, consider using it. An authenticator app may also provide stronger protection than receiving a verification code by text. For more on the differences, see our guide to whether bank text codes are enough to protect you.
Do not wait until your monthly statement arrives to discover suspicious activity. Set alerts for logins, withdrawals, transfers, new payees and password changes whenever your financial institution offers them. These notifications can give you an early warning when something happens that you did not authorize.
No. You can safely manage financial accounts from a well-maintained everyday computer if you follow strong security practices. Keep the computer updated. Protect each financial account with a unique password and use strong authentication whenever possible.
For many people, those protections combined with careful online behavior will provide strong security. However, I look at the equation a little differently for someone managing significant retirement savings or investment assets. The cost of a basic computer may be relatively small compared with the amount of money you are trying to protect. You also do not need an expensive machine for banking and investment websites.
If you decide the extra separation makes sense for you, take a look at my best laptops for 2026 and best desktop computers for 2026 at Cyberguy.com to compare current options. A dedicated machine can create a cleaner and more controlled environment for accessing your financial accounts. Just remember that the separation only works if you maintain it. Once the "banking computer" becomes the computer you also use for email, social media or general web browsing, much of that security advantage disappears.
Nancy's question gets at something I wish more people thought about before a scam or account takeover happens. A separate computer for online banking can be a smart additional barrier, particularly when you are protecting significant savings or retirement assets. Keeping email, downloads and everyday web activity away from that machine reduces the opportunities criminals have to reach it. Still, I would never rely on the computer alone. Your passwords matter. Your phone number needs protection. Strong authentication can help stop someone who gets hold of a password, while account alerts can warn you when something suspicious happens. So, if buying a dedicated computer gives you greater control over how you access your money, I think it is a sensible strategy. Treat it as another layer in a larger financial security plan rather than a replacement for the protections you already need. And if protecting your money is top of mind, you can still watch the free CyberGuy LIVE replay, Protect Your Money From Today’s Biggest Threats, at CyberGuyLive.com. We cover bank alerts, stronger account logins, phone-number protection, credit freezes and additional safeguards for retirement accounts.
Would you spend a few hundred dollars on a separate computer if it could reduce the risk to your savings and investments, or do you think securing the computer you already own is enough? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com
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America's biggest beer-loving states revealed — see where yours ranks
Beer has a storied history in the United States and was a common beverage in colonial America. Its influence on the nation's culture remains strong – and a new study found which states appear to be most interested in beer.
"Wisconsin is still America's beer capital," reported consumer research firm Innerbody Research in the website's recently released analysis of a year's worth of Google Trends search data.
This marks the second year in a row the Badger State came out on top in the rankings. Innerbody labeled the Midwest "America's beer belt," since "Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Missouri all rank among the nation's top 10," and "every Midwestern state finishes in the top 20."
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"The Midwest is one of many regions with a deep historic beer culture tied to both a long legacy of regional production and reinvigorated by craft brewers in recent decades," Bart Watson, president and CEO of the Colorado-based Brewers Association, told Fox News Digital.
Wyoming came in second place for its search-interest score. Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa came in third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
States along the Pacific coast showed lower beer-related search interest, according to the study. Alaska, Washington, California, Oregon and Hawaii were in the bottom 10 for beer searches.
When it comes to specific brands, regional loyalty remains strong.
"The local dominance of a beer brand is almost entirely driven by historic entry advantage," Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, a marketing professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who has published research explaining the regional dominance of brands, told Fox News Digital.
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"Miller dominates in Wisconsin because it was first to market there. In contrast, Budweiser was first to market in St. Louis, where it also remains dominant. The prevalence of beer tastes in the Midwest reflects the fact that most of the world's largest brewers in the late 1800s were in the Midwest in St. Louis, Wisconsin and Chicago – but especially Wisconsin."
Samuel Adams "launched in Boston and was arguably the first successful craft brewer to become a dominant brand and obtain national distribution," Dubé added.
Michelob Ultra generated the most search interest among the beer brands analyzed and also came out on top in Alabama, Nevada and Oklahoma.
"One of beer's strengths is the many options for lower calories and ABV relative to other adult beverages," Watson said.
"Light beers underline that quality and have been very popular ever since they were introduced. In recent years, interest in particular attributes, like low-carb beers, has also been a factor in consumer preferences."
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Stella Artois was the most popular beer in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Along with other imported beers, Stella is "perceived as a premium beer in the U.S.," though that isn't its reputation in the brand's home market of Belgium, Dubé said.
Dubé's studies have found that exposure to certain beers when consumers first reach legal drinking age influences what they prefer later in life.
"Millennials in cities with few craft brands at 21 drink way more national-brand beer today – Bud and Miller – than millennials in cities with relatively more craft beer brands when they came of age," he said.
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Beer Marketer Insights reported this year that Michelob Ultra had overtaken Bud Light and Modelo Especial to become the top-selling beer in the U.S. by volume.
Sales and search aren't perfectly correlated, Watson said, and the Innerbody findings "signal something about new interest and brands as much as overall brand strength or sales."
"A sales map would undoubtedly look very different," he said. "At the end of the day, beer is supposed to be fun, so no one should take them too seriously, and they are best argued over with friends and family with a beer in hand."
JD Vance's mother Beverly Vance reacts to vice president's 'childless cat ladies' spat with Taylor Swift
Vice President JD Vance’s comment about "childless cat ladies" became a talking point during President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Taylor Swift even referenced it when she endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Yet Beverly Vance, JD Vance's mother, had no idea Swift had taken a shot at her son over his "childless cat ladies" comment.
"I had no idea that's what she was even doing. Until you just said that, I didn't even put the two together," Vance said with a laugh during a recent appearance on OutKick’s "Tomi Lahren is Fearless."
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JD Vance appeared on Fox News for an interview with Tucker Carlson in 2021, and the then-Senate candidate said that Democrats are "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too."
Beverly said her son meant it as a joke and cited his sense of humor.
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"I just thought it was funny," Beverly said. "JD's just got a sense of humor and you know he was making a joke and obviously people didn't take it as a joke, but you know, I know JD and he just meant it as a joke."
The vice president admitted his comment was a mistake in his book. In Swift’s post endorsing Harris and Walz, she posed for a photo with a cat.
Tomi Lahren mentioned that Swift’s husband, Kansas City Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce, grew up in Ohio, like the Vances. Beverly quickly pointed out that Kelce played college football at the University of Cincinnati.