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Best outdoor adventures near DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin: Hiking, paddling and more for gameday
Week 2 | Ohio State at Texas | Saturday, Sept. 12 | DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, TX | 6:30 PM CT | ABC
Texas fans have seen this movie twice already and don't love the ending. Ohio State knocked the Longhorns out of the 2024 CFP in the Cotton Bowl semifinal, 28-14, on their way to that season's national title, then beat them again 14-7 in last year's season opener.
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Now the preseason No. 1 Buckeyes are coming to Austin to face the No. 5 Longhorns for the latest installment, with "College GameDay" setting up on campus and a primetime kickoff on ABC. Arch Manning gets his shot at the rematch at home this time.
Whether that ends better for Texas or not, you'll have all day to burn off the nerves beforehand.
Austin doesn't require much of an excuse to get outside, and with a 6:30 kickoff, you've got a full day to work with before the stadium lights come on. From paddling downtown to ziplining over Lake Travis, here's where to go, all within an hour of DKR.
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A word on conditions: mid-September in Austin still runs hot, with highs typically in the low-to-mid 90s. Front-load anything exposed or physical into the morning and stay hydrated.
Under 10 minutes from DKR | ~$20-30/hour rental
About as close to the stadium as it gets. Rent a paddleboard or kayak from an outfitter like The Rowing Dock or Austin Paddle Shack and glide out onto calm, no-motorboats-allowed water with the downtown skyline as your backdrop — including a pass under the Congress Avenue Bridge, home to the city's famous bat colony.
About 10 minutes from DKR | Roughly $5-9 entry
The single best way to beat the heat on a 90-plus-degree gameday. This spring-fed pool inside Zilker Park holds a constant 68 degrees year-round, no matter how hot it gets outside. It's an Austin institution, so you can expect company. But it's worth the crowd.
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About 15 minutes from DKR | Free
A steep but short climb — around 100 stairs — leads to a stunning overlook of the Colorado River, Lake Austin and the city skyline. There's essentially no shade at the top, so this is a morning or evening stop, not a 2 p.m. one.
15-20 minutes from DKR | Free
Austin's default answer for hiking and mountain biking, cutting through limestone canyon terrain right in the middle of the city. When water levels cooperate, several swimming holes open up along the trail, too.
About 20 minutes from DKR | Roughly $6 entry
Somehow this feels like a different state entirely despite being 20 minutes from downtown. Onion Creek's Upper and Lower Falls offer swimming holes and hiking trails that make you forget 100,000 people are about to pack into a stadium nearby.
25-35 minutes from DKR | $135/person for the full tour
This is the splurge pick. Five ziplines over roughly three hours, including Texas's longest line, plus a short hike and a boat ride built into the tour. If your crew wants one big memorable activity (and doesn't mind shelling out some dough), this is it.
Every week this season, OutKick OutDoors is finding the best ways to touch grass before you touch down at the tailgate. Got a favorite spot near your campus we should know about? Hit us up on Instagram and TikTok.
Gmail change may flood your inbox with political email
If your Gmail inbox already feels crowded, election season may add another layer of noise. Starting Sept. 8, 2026, Google's new Gmail Verified Sender Program will give qualifying U.S. political committees a more reliable path to personal Gmail accounts. That means qualifying political committees will have a new way to improve the reliability of their email delivery, provided they follow Google's security, authentication and spam requirements.
The program applies to eligible candidates, parties, PACs and other registered political committees that meet Google's requirements. Campaign Verify's eligibility criteria focus on registration and program requirements, regardless of party label.
The bigger issue for you is control. You can still unsubscribe, block a sender, report unwanted messages as spam or create your own Gmail filters.
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The Gmail Verified Sender Program is scheduled to launch September 8 for eligible U.S. political committees. Campaign Verify says political organizations must verify their sending domains before they can participate. Eligible groups include candidates, parties, PACs and other political committees that qualify under the program. Google also requires participating senders to follow email security and compliance rules. One key requirement is a user-reported spam rate below 0.3% over a rolling 14-day average.
Getting verified alone does not guarantee that every campaign message will reach your inbox. Google says continued participation depends on senders following its requirements and maintaining positive recipient engagement. If a sender's average user-reported spam rate rises above 0.3% over a rolling 14-day period, the sender violates the program's policy and could be suspended or removed. Standard Gmail spam filtering would then apply.
So, this does not give campaigns unlimited access to your inbox. However, it changes how Gmail can treat eligible political email before you personally tell Gmail what you want. One more point: verification confirms the political committee's sending domain. It should not be read as Google vouching for every claim, fundraising pitch or link inside a message.
Here is the part that could get annoying. Gmail has long used automated systems to decide whether bulk email belongs in your inbox or spam folder. Under the new program, verified political senders that stay within Google's rules can receive more reliable delivery to personal Gmail accounts.
For someone who already receives fundraising appeals, petition requests or campaign updates, that could mean seeing more political messages in Gmail. Google tells CyberGuy the program grew out of an earlier pilot and says Gmail users will remain in control of what stays in their inboxes.
"Following our previous pilot, this program is designed to connect people with the emails they want to receive while keeping them fully in control of their inboxes. To participate, bulk senders must meet strict security and compliance requirements, ensuring that messages people receive are relevant, useful, and verified," a Google spokesperson told CyberGuy.
Google also points out that Gmail users can continue to mark a message as spam, block a specific sender and unsubscribe from unwanted mailing lists. The company says the new program does not turn off Gmail's broader security protections. Google says Gmail's filters continue to block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware while using recipient feedback to help determine what people want to receive. Still, if more qualifying political messages reach you, some of the cleanup work may fall on you.
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This is where your own Gmail choices become important. According to reporting on the new program, if you mark a participating sender's message as spam, Gmail can use that feedback for your account. Future messages from that sender can then be routed to spam based on your preference.
Google's standard Gmail tools also confirm that messages you report as spam move into the Spam folder. Over time, reporting unwanted email helps Gmail identify similar messages more effectively. In other words, do not assume you have to live with every campaign message that reaches you.
You have several ways to take back your inbox. Start with the least aggressive option and move up if the messages keep coming.
On a computer, open the message and look next to the sender's name. If Gmail shows an Unsubscribe option, click it and confirm. Google says some unsubscribe requests can take a few days to fully stop the mail. Gmail may also send you to the sender's website when a one-click option is unavailable.
If you did not ask for the message or the sender keeps emailing you after you tried to leave the list, select the email and click Report spam. That moves the message into Spam and gives Gmail another signal about what you do not want.
For a sender you never want to hear from again, Gmail lets you block that address. Future messages from a blocked sender go to Spam. Keep in mind that campaigns may use more than one sending address or domain. Blocking one address may reduce the flow without stopping every related message.
If the same sender or phrase keeps showing up, create a filter on your computer. Open Gmail, click Show search options in the search box and enter the sender, domain or other criteria you want to target. Then click Create filter and choose what Gmail should do with matching messages. You can archive them, apply a label or delete them automatically. I would be careful with broad keywords such as "vote" or "election." Those words can appear in news alerts, community messages and emails you actually want. A specific sender or domain gives you more control.
Political campaigns and other organizations can obtain contact information from many sources, including public records and commercial data providers. Reducing the amount of personal information circulating online may help limit some unwanted outreach.
A personal data removal service can do much of the cleanup for you. They can send removal requests to data brokers on your behalf and continue following up as your information reappears. This can reduce your exposure across data broker and people-search sites. However, it cannot remove information from government websites, so it will not stop every political email or message.
The less personal information that data brokers have available to package and share, the fewer places marketers and other organizations may have to find your contact details. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting Cyberguy.com.
Political email can also give scammers an easy theme to copy. If a message pressures you to donate immediately, verify your identity or click a link before a deadline, avoid using the link in the email when anything feels off. Go directly to the campaign or organization's official website instead. CyberGuy has covered how scammers use fake political donation requests and how political messages can hide scam links.
One of the best ways to reduce future clutter is to stop handing out your main email address everywhere. An email alias gives you another address that forwards to your inbox. You can use a separate alias for donations, petitions, newsletters or other sign-ups. If that alias starts getting flooded, you can shut it down without changing your primary address. For recommendations on private and secure email providers that offer alias addresses, visit Cyberguy.com.
This Gmail change arrives at a time when many people already feel buried by junk email, spam texts, robocalls and political messages.
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Google is giving verified political committees a new path to more reliable email delivery, but campaigns still have to play by Gmail's rules. Users also retain the power to unsubscribe, block senders and hit the spam button. From a security standpoint, verifying political senders can help make impersonation harder. From an inbox standpoint, however, you may still end up doing more of the sorting yourself if campaign volume picks up. My advice is simple: use Gmail's controls aggressively when a message keeps showing up after you have had enough. Unsubscribe from legitimate lists. Report suspicious or unwanted messages as spam. Create targeted filters for repeat senders. Then think about using an alias for future political sign-ups so your primary email stays cleaner. Google's 0.3% spam threshold also gives campaigns a strong incentive to avoid irritating recipients. The real test will come after September 8, when political email volume increases and Gmail users start voting with the Report spam button.
Would you rather Gmail make more of the initial decision about which political emails belong in spam, or are you comfortable deciding sender by sender once those messages reach you? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.
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OJ Simpson jokes about ‘bloody Bronco,’ boasts of its ‘great escapability’ in disturbing resurfaced video
O.J. Simpson turned one of the most infamous moments of his life into a punchline.
Years after the fallen football star and Hollywood actor was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, Simpson was caught on camera joking about a "bloody Bronco" and boasting about the vehicle’s "great escapability" — video that has now resurfaced decades later.
The moments were captured while Simpson filmed his hidden-camera prank show, "Juiced," in an attempt at a comeback. Simpson’s little-remembered project, which he described as his "own version of 'Punk’d,'" is the subject of a new Investigation Discovery docuseries, "O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil."
Simpson faced repeated allegations of domestic violence involving Nicole Brown Simpson. He pleaded no contest to a charge of spousal battery against her in 1989.
"O.J. was a malignant narcissist and megalomaniac who thought he could get away with anything — that’s what doing [this docuseries] showed me," filmmaker Rebecca Halpern told Fox News Digital.
"O.J. insisted on having a beer in his hand for virtually the entire production, and loose lips sink ships. And there are many scenes in the show where O.J. just starts to blather on about the case. Nobody prompted him to tell a shopper on a used car lot that a white Bronco has ‘great escapability’ and if you do something bad, it can get you out of trouble."
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In a scene from the docuseries, which premieres Sept. 7, Simpson pretends to sell a white Bronco at a used car lot, where he boasts about making the car famous. The Bronco appears to have a bullet hole in it.
"It was good for me," Simpson tells a prospective buyer. "Got me out of harm’s way."
When another customer jokes about whether there is "a dead body inside," Simpson replies, "Yeah, well, hopefully there’s no bodies in this thing." He also tells two other shoppers, "It’s a Bronco, a car that I personally made famous."
"This is the best deal we got on the lot," he tells another. "It has escapability, that’s the main thing. I mean, if you ever get into some trouble and you gotta get away, it has escapability. ... I like that word, escapability. ... They weren’t going to let me keep mine."
When customers realize they are being filmed for the hidden-camera prank, some laugh, shake Simpson’s hand or embrace him. At one point, he autographs the Bronco.
"This is a Bronco signed by O.J. Simpson," he says. "With an authentic bullet hole in it. It’s signed by me, which gives it some kind of extra value."
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"I wasn’t trying to escape, despite what anybody might tell you. No, that’s the God’s truth. That’s why they never brought the Bronco ride up in any of my trials," Simpson said.
"Just take a look around. All you have to do is wash it up."
Simpson and Brown married in 1985. They had two children, Sydney and Justin, and divorced in 1992. Two years later, Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home.
Investigators quickly focused on Simpson, leading to a slow-speed chase in a white Bronco that aired live on national television. Following the "Trial of the Century," he was acquitted of murder.
Simpson was later found liable for the deaths in a separate civil case and served nearly nine years in prison after he was convicted of armed robbery and other charges in an unrelated Las Vegas case.
Halpern said Simpson "demonstrated such a complete and total lack of any decency" while discussing his case during filming.
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"He was so desperate for a comeback, to prove to the world that he was still this beloved figure, that he was willing to make jokes at his dead ex-wife’s expense," Halpern said. "And then, on top of that, to shock innocent victims, many of whom were female in these pranks. If that doesn’t say it all, I don’t know what does."
"There is [also] a scene at a fast-food restaurant where O.J. begins to fat shame women who are at the drive-thru," Halpern said. "We cut from that to Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister on the stand testifying about O.J. Simpson; when Nicole was pregnant with their children, he would fat shame her and call her a 'fat pig.'"
The Bronco remarks weren’t the only comments that left crew members stunned.
"When he was getting his makeup done for this crazy bingo sketch where he was playing an old White man, he starts talking about rape culture and the Kobe Bryant case while he’s watching Court TV," Halpern explained. "He goes on to say, 'No doesn’t always mean no.' Nobody prompted him to say that."
Former "Juiced" crew members participated in the docuseries, with some saying they hoped Simpson would let his guard down — and possibly confess to the murders — while the cameras were rolling.
"The whole two-week journey of making 'Juiced' was a roller-coaster ride of emotions for the crew, many of whom signed on to find out for themselves if he did it," Halpern explained.
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"Along the way, they found themselves liking him sometimes, feeling sort of under his spell. And then at other times, they were completely aghast at what they saw. In fact, the VP of 'Juiced' said it himself: 'After I shook his hand when production was over, I thought to myself, "Were these the hands that killed somebody?"'"
Simpson’s attempted comeback failed to gain traction. After word of "Juiced" leaked, distributors backed away as details emerged of Simpson joking about the murders, according to the docuseries. The project’s original distribution plans quickly collapsed. "Juiced" aired as a pay-per-view special in 2006 and was later released on DVD.
"It imploded," Halpern said. "There was a backlash on the business side that distributors and others didn’t want to have anything to do with anything O.J. Simpson joking about the murders. They all started to get cold feet. And I think [executive producer] Rick Mahr saw the writing on the wall for his project."
Simpson died of prostate cancer in 2024 at 76.
"He wanted to prove to the world that he was not the pariah that the media had made him out to be," Halpern said. "He had lost everything. He had reached rock bottom and was desperate for the love that he once had. That’s why he did 'Juiced.' I also think, take it for what it’s worth, whether he did it or not, O.J. Simpson knows a lot about what happened."
DHS chief announces changes to its seal to reflect that department is 'at war every single day'
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed on "The Sunday Briefing" that DHS is changing its seal, which depicts an eagle holding a palm leaf in one talon and a bundle of arrows in the other. The new seal will show the eagle facing toward the arrows rather than the palm, a symbolic shift Mullin said reflects the department’s daily fight against threats to the country.
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Mullin declared that the department is "at war every single day" against bad actors targeting the United States, from Islamic terrorists to drug cartels.
Mullin said the direction the eagle faces carries symbolic meaning, explaining that looking toward the palm represents peace while facing the arrows represents war. He tied the change to what he described as an increasingly fluid threat environment spanning terrorism, cartels, cyberattacks, drones and violence against public officials.
"If you look at most of our seals throughout all the agencies, the eagle looks to the palm because that's in a time of peace. We're actually changing our seal to make it look towards the arrows, because when it looks towards the arrows is when it means we're at war."
Asked about the leading threat to the homeland today, Mullin said terrorism still tops the list, but it looks different than it used to.
"It's still terrorists, but the terrorists have joined with the cartels," said Mullin, pointing out that fentanyl overdoses have killed more Americans than the Vietnam War and praising President Donald Trump for adding cartels to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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"We're seeing the Islamic terrorists joining with the Mexican cartels that are trying to use all the resources to come after us. And then, we're seeing the drone attacks that are starting to take place," Mullin said.
"We have tried to protect our sensitive areas with fences and armed security guards. Now we're having to realize that the threat comes from the air, too, with simple drones that people can buy online on Amazon."
Given that Labor Day serves as the traditional kickoff to campaign season, Mullin also reflected on the threats faced by political candidates.
"I would say you're never safe when you're [in the] public eye," he said, calling for cooler heads to prevail.
"The American people have to realize that we do have a republic, and the republic has different opinions. And it's okay to have different opinions, just when you cross the line and say that that different opinion needs to be silenced, needs to be silenced through violence — that's where Homeland comes into place, that's where we're going to stop that violent act."
That's not to mention the new frontier of cyber threats. Mullin identified Iran, North Korea, China and Russia-linked actors as some of the main sources of today's cyberattacks, which number in the hundreds of thousands each week, according to the DHS chief.
He emphasized the importance of staying agile in the face of an ever-changing risk environment.
"Every single day, I get a briefing. Every single day we have new threats, and every single day the threats are changing," Mullin said. "Every time we stop a threat, a terrorist act or a criminal activity that's taking place, they also change their tactics. We have to be constantly moving from cyber to sea to air and to land."
Alleged cryptoscam ringleader set for plea hearing in $240M bitcoin theft
A 22-year-old Singapore man accused of helping steal more than $240 million in Bitcoin from a single victim and splurging the proceeds on luxury cars, private jets, mansions and wild nights out is expected to plead guilty this week in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history.
Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout from Singapore whom prosecutors have identified as a suspected ringleader of the sprawling cryptocurrency scheme, is scheduled for a plea agreement hearing Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Lam and his alleged co-conspirators were part of an alleged network of young men in their late teens and early 20s who prosecutors say used a sophisticated "social engineering" attack in August 2024 to trick a wealthy, longtime cryptocurrency investor into handing over access to his digital holdings.
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According to prosecutors, members of the group contacted the victim while posing as representatives of Google and the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, warning him that his accounts had been compromised.
The scammers allegedly convinced the victim to give them access to his Google Drive and provide security codes that allowed Lam and others to siphon off more than 4,100 Bitcoin, then worth over $240 million.
The group allegedly moved the stolen cryptocurrency through multiple exchange platforms and used money laundering specialists to convert portions of it into cash.
Prosecutors say Lam and his associates then embarked on a staggering spending spree.
Lam and his friends allegedly spent $4 million at Los Angeles nightclubs in roughly a month, including more than $569,000 that Lam allegedly spent during a single night out. He also allegedly used stolen cryptocurrency to purchase a $2 million watch and more than 30 vehicles, including custom Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris.
The group also rented multimillion-dollar homes, flew on private jets and hired private security.
The alleged spending was so lavish that the judge overseeing Lam's initial court appearance in Miami invoked a famous Hollywood troublemaker after hearing a prosecutor describe it.
"I could only think of Ferris Bueller gone bad," U.S. Magistrate Judge Alicia Valle said, referring to the school-skipping protagonist of the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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The lavish lifestyle quickly attracted attention as investigators closed in.
One alleged co-conspirator, Jeandiel Serrano, failed to conceal his IP address while creating an account on a cryptocurrency exchange that held nearly $30 million in stolen funds, prosecutors said. Investigators traced the address to an Encino, California, home Serrano was renting for $47,500 per month.
Serrano and Lam were arrested separately on Sept. 18, 2024. FBI agents took Serrano into custody at Los Angeles International Airport, where authorities said he was wearing a watch worth roughly $500,000.
Lam was arrested the same day at a Miami mansion.
Eighteen defendants have been charged in connection with the case, with ten already pleading guilty.
At Lam's initial court appearance, a prosecutor estimated that federal sentencing guidelines could call for a prison term of at least 14 years if he is convicted.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Taylor Sheridan's 'Lioness' Season 3 Episode 6 leaves fans buzzing after airport shootout scene
The latest "Lioness" episode set the internet on fire.
Taylor Sheridan's hit CIA/military thriller is one of the best shows on TV, and it's built a rabid following. Episode 6 of Season 3 premiered Sunday on Paramount+, and the series is officially off to the races as Joe's team races to rescue her from her kidnappers.
Sheridan continues to prove he can take things to a new level on a weekly basis, and viewers are buzzing after what they saw Sunday.
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Episode 6 – "Sugar Land" – saw a major reveal in the closing moments when Joe was handed off to an Iranian extraction team.
In what can only be described as an absolutely bone-chilling scene, it is laid out in brutal terms what awaits her in Iran. A fate far worse than death.
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The Iranian agent then proceeded to cut her toe off. It was a shocking moment, but I would argue it wasn't even the craziest moment of the episode.
The coolest moment was by far when Kyle and two Delta Force operators found the Iranian plane waiting to fly her out of the USA.
A bloody and epic gun battle unfolded on the tarmac, and happened with such lightning speed that it was mind-boggling. It's clear that whoever is advising Sheridan on the series knows what they're doing. Everything about the Delta Force shootout scene felt incredibly real.
Reactions were also quick to pour in on Reddit to the episode. Check out some below:
Now, there are two more episodes left in Season 3, and the race to find Joe is winding down. Hopefully, fans get a very violent conclusion, which is what the entire season has been building up. Hit me with your best theories at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
Inside Charlie Kirk’s effort to develop the next generation of conservative voices
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated at 31, he left behind an organization that had helped young conservatives find their voices and, for some, launch careers in media and activism. One year later, those who worked closely with him say they are carrying forward the model he built, continuing to recruit and mentor college students and young activists.
"I don't think anybody can replace Charlie," Turning Point USA chief of staff Michael McCoy, who also worked as Kirk's chief of staff, told Fox News Digital. "I think there's a massive void that was left behind in his absence."
Kirk was shot and killed while holding an event at Utah Valley University. The TPUSA founder and CEO was known for his "Prove Me Wrong" events, during which he would invite people to debate him and ask questions. His Sept. 10, 2025, event where he was murdered was part of his "American Comeback Tour."
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Prior to Kirk's assassination, TPUSA had 410 college chapters registered for the 2025-2026 school year. After Kirk was murdered, that number grew to 1,095. The organization also saw its Club America chapters, aimed at high schoolers, grow substantially. Before Sept. 10, 2025, there were 454 Club America chapters, and after Kirk's assassination, the number grew to 3,102. The growth in the organization exemplified one of Kirk's main goals, which was to develop young conservative voices.
"The Charlie Kirk Show" executive producer Andrew Kolvet remembered Kirk as being "intentional" when building a bench of activists.
"He wanted to use that as sort of like the farm system for voices that could find their footing, find their way, and really, the cream would rise to the top," Kolvet told Fox News Digital.
Kolvet pointed to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt as examples of Turning Point alumni who went on to hold high-profile public roles.
Isabel Brown, a former Turning Point USA staffer who now hosts "The Isabel Brown Show" at The Daily Wire, said Kirk helped steer her from a planned career as a trauma surgeon toward activism and conservative media.
Brown first encountered Turning Point as a college student and later helped Kirk plan an event at Colorado State University, her alma mater, an experience that cemented her interest in the work.
"I was having so much darn fun planning this event and many others that we would go on to put on for our campus that Charlie said, ‘I don't think you're meant to work in a fluorescently lit hospital for the rest of your life. I think you are supposed to do something a little bit different,’" Brown recalled.
Brown went on to work for TPUSA, becoming one of the young conservative media voices shaped by Kirk’s organization.
Brown's experiences with Kirk in the early days of TPUSA reflected his approach to young conservatives, according to those who worked with him. Rather than simply looking to build an audience for the sake of having one, they said, Kirk sought out students individually and encouraged those in whom he saw potential.
"He was not just trying to gain a whole swath of numbers of college students or build this 30,000-foot-scale army that could take on the political machine," Brown said. "He was interested in the individual student sitting in front of him, and he was that way until the day that he died."
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Kolvet said Kirk's ability to connect with young conservatives came from his willingness to engage with them without trying to imitate aspects of culture that didn't speak to him.
"What made Charlie different when it came to reaching young people was that he just rejected all of the pop culture stuff. He never pandered to them," Kolvet said. "He was just himself."
Blake Neff, a producer on "The Charlie Kirk Show," said Kirk's influence online was rooted in his interactions with people in real life.
"Charlie very much lived in the real world. He was a social media celebrity, but he was not a social-media inhabitant. He was not obsessed constantly with what was getting what was getting views," Neff said, adding that to Kirk the social media success was "almost a side effect of the work he did."
Neff noted that Kirk not only went to college campuses across the country, but also was engaged in local and national politics. The TPUSA CEO and founder would also frequently travel to meet voters, donors and "different Americans in different walks of life," according to Neff.
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McCoy said Kirk's success reaching Gen Z stemmed from his "authenticity and consistency."
"Gen Z has this ability to kind of sniff out who's being authentic and who's not, and we really aren't a generation that likes to be pandered to," McCoy, a Gen Zer, said to Fox News Digital. "We don't like it when people show up to try to speak the lingo or kind of participate in the culture of Gen Z because we can kind of see right through that. But Charlie, he showed up with a message that he knew young people ought to hear, not that we wanted to hear oftentimes, and he was rewarded for it."
For McCoy, Kirk's influence can be seen not only through the personalities that have emerged from TPUSA, but also in the students who seek to model their activism after Kirk's.
"Charlie was kind of the head figure for so many of our students at Turning Point USA because they saw him, and they copied him by going on college campuses and kind of doing a micro version of what he was doing, talking to students, tabling, handing out stickers and buttons and rally signs and talking about conservative principles," McCoy said.
Kolvet said that students have told him that they try to emulate Kirk's courage and willingness to face any audience, including hostile ones.
"He was so bold. He was a lion for the Christian faith. He held nothing back. He didn't mince words. He didn't cower. He would go full bore right into the fray. He would [go] right into places where, you know, we were most not wanted," Kolvet told Fox News Digital. "He was willing to be exactly who he was and speak truth in any context."
Former PGA Tour star Hunter Mahan hints at future run on senior circuit, stepping into posting golf content
Hunter Mahan walked away from the PGA Tour in 2021 and has been open about being completely burnt out on all things involved with the non-stop grind of professional golf. Over the last five years, he's enjoyed the dad life at home, started to coach high school golf, and recently got the itch to pick up the clubs again, albeit in a different capacity.
Mahan, a six-time winner on the PGA Tour, jumped into the golf content space in June and has been posting videos of his own journey back into the game, instructional videos, and anything in between while growing his Instagram following to over 55,000.
"My wife just took some videos, and she said, 'You should start playing a little bit more, I can tell you're interested,'" Mahan recalled in an interview with OutKick. "So, I went out to the course the next day and hit record on that first video, and just sort of talked about it, and I wasn't sure how it looks or how it feels, but this is kind of what I'm thinking about doing. The response from all the people, my fans I guess, if you want to call them that, was so positive. It was sort of overwhelming, and we were sort of surprised by it."
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While Mahan is enjoying the new endeavor in the golf content space, he also shared that potentially competing on the PGA Tour Champions is on the table as well. He has a little over five years until he turns 50 and becomes eligible to compete on the senior circuit, but the competitive juices appear to be returning as he's already eyeing a potential return to professional competition.
"I am exploring all things right now, and trying to figure all that out, and trying to figure out what can my place be in golf today," Mahan continued. "I've got over five years until the senior tour and see if I want to do that, the Champions Tour, and that could be a lot of fun because I've got so many friends that I played golf with that we're all going to turn 50 around the same time, so that could be a lot lof of fun.
"But, I've got some time, I've got some interests to try and figure everything out as best I can, and figure out what's a great medium for me to get out more golf content. I've had a lot of great conversations with all kinds of people about all this stuff. It is cool to see the golf community from a non-professional and professional way to react to this stuff and learn more about it. It's been a lot of fun."
Mahan, who was ranked in the Top Five of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2012, would have immediate status to compete on the PGA Tour Champions under current guidelines upon turning 50, given his six PGA Tour wins.
The former Oklahoma State standout earned his first win on Tour at the 2007 Travelers Championship, with his last victory coming seven years later at The Barclays.
Detroit pastor says progressive candidates are trying to 'virtue-signal' to Christian voters
Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell told Fox News Digital that progressive politicians are trying to "virtue-signal, placate, and try to propagate to Christians" because they represent the largest religious voting bloc in America.
"It's the largest voting bloc in America. We're celebrating 250 years, where our forefathers — they understood that the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ, would give them the ability to start this great nation," Sewell said. "And we see that we've not been a perfect nation, but we understand that we've been the most benevolent."
"We've been the nation that's protected Israel," he continued. "We've been the nation that, quite frankly, has spread Christianity throughout the world to reach hundreds of millions of people in the last 250 years."
Three progressive Democratic candidates running for the U.S. Senate — Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, former Michigan health official Abdul El-Sayed and Texas state Rep. James Talarico — shared a penchant for bucking the Democratic establishment in their high-profile primary bids this midterm cycle. They have also incorporated their religions and faiths into their campaigns and messaging to voters.
Talarico, a Texas state lawmaker and theological seminary graduate, has often cited biblical scripture to defend progressive policies, gaining national attention. Talarico has argued that Jesus focused on feeding the hungry, welcoming strangers, and helping the poor rather than engaging in partisan culture wars.
"Imagine a Democratic Party that takes on big money and isn’t captured by it," Talarico told an audience of Democrats in Hays County, according to a report by the Texas Tribune. "Imagine a Democratic Party that delivers for people on housing, health care, and education, and actually defeats the right-wing extremists who have taken over this country."
In a sermon laying out his progressive framing of the Bible, Talarico asked what Jesus would do "about a tax system that benefits the rich over the poor" and "a health care system that forces the sick to start GoFundMe pages to afford lifesaving surgeries."
During comments at the Saint Paul AME Church of Jacksonville, Florida, Nixon — the Democratic Senate nominee facing Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody in November — contended that her political positions were akin to those of Jesus Christ.
"They are trying, y'all. They are trying ... to label me as this extremist, this radical. But, you know, Jesus was a radical," Nixon said.
El-Sayed, during an appearance on the "Progressive Christians Podcast" that aired in May, similarly invoked Christ when asked about his policy positions. El-Sayed, who is Muslim and running in Michigan's Senate race against former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, was asked about the overlap between Islamic teachings and Christianity, and why his platform was being framed as radical.
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"Well, you know, Jesus — peace and blessings be upon him — was considered radical in his time, too," El-Sayed said.
Sewell insisted that progressive Democrats are simply playing politics with the electorate.
"They know that they need to appeal to Christians. But the question becomes: What is their agenda for the church?" he said. "President Donald Trump has been the only president that has an agenda for the local church."
"I was with them last week," Sewell added. "I'll be preaching at the RNC coming up, and that's because the president honors the church and honors the presence of God. But you won't hear Jesus in the DNC. You won't hear Jesus spoken about through the real Jesus — the God of the Bible."
Fox News' Alex Miller contributed to this report.
Florida Gators revive iconic 'Gator Bait' chant the left deemed racist back in 2020, and fans ate it up
The Florida Gators opened the first college football weekend of the season with a new coach, a new quarterback, and an offense that put up more points than it had in years.
The most noticeable change, however, took place in the stands.
The school revived the iconic, yet controversial, "Gator Bait" chant that had been shelved since America lost its mind during the summer of 2020. Like a lot of things, "Gator Bait" was deemed racist as the (very peaceful) social justice movement swept through the streets, and the school promptly shut it down.
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Now, six years later, it's back ...
And fans were THRILLED:
Goodness, does that bring me back. I grew up going to Gators games during the Tebow era — the last good era, by the way — and that chant was electric. The band. The fans. The energy. It was the best.
Of course, it was banned six years ago because folks suddenly decided it was racist.
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Why? Well, the internet cooked up the idea that the chant originated from late-1800s and early-1900s imagery and stories that depicted Black children being used as bait to catch alligators.
Yes, obviously that's just disgusting literature. Nobody is arguing that. Nobody did.
But here's the thing ... then-UF President Kent Fuchs acknowledged at the time that the chant, which had been around for decades, had NOTHING to do with any of that.
"While I know of no evidence of racism associated with our ‘Gator Bait’ cheer at UF sporting events, there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase," he wrote in a letter in June 2020.
Translation: This isn't racist, but we're bending the knee to the mob because that's what everyone is doing right now.
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Fast-forward six years, and new Florida president Dr. Stuart Bell brought up the idea of reviving the iconic chant earlier this summer.
"I know there’s a lot around the ‘Gator Bait’ (chant). It’s meaningful to the Gator family," Bell told 1010XL. "I hope we’re able to have some really great conversations around that."
The chant, for those wondering, was coined the "Gator Bait" chant by Lawrence Wright way back in 1995. It was foolishly canceled in 2020, and smartly revived on Saturday.
Sanity wins again.