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Chiefs owner's wife Tavia Hunt has heard enough about how they get all the calls and she's sick of it
Tavia Hunt, wife of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, has heard all about how her team gets all the calls and she's had enough. She pushed back on that narrative on social media earlier this week.
Is her opinion biased? It could be, but she's taken a look at the stats and studied the film according to her statement on the matter.
In a post on Tavia's Instagram story, where I'd argue these sorts of matters should be settled, she shared a clip of Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones being held in the end zone while Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins surveys the field for an open receiver. See the alleged missed call here.
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"So sick of the past narrative that the Chiefs get all the calls," she wrote. "Stats don’t lie and neither does film — so I’m leaving this here."
The Chiefs ended up winning the game 30-27 and improved to 4-0. I'm sure there were missed calls that went the Chiefs way during the game as well as there are in every game.
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Winning three Super Bowls over a five-year span is going to add some fuel to the "Chiefs get all the calls" fire. And so does a study the NY Post reports was conducted by the University of Texas at El Paso in October 2025.
They found that "postseason officiating has disproportionately favored the [Patrick] Mahomes-era Kansas City Chiefs, coinciding with their rise as one of the NFL’s most marketable franchises."
Now, so far this season, the numbers, according to the NY Post, are more on Tavia and the Chiefs side.
The part of this whole back-and-forth over whether they get all the calls or not that is being lost is that some people don't care what the numbers are. They enjoy getting the Chiefs fans all the way up to the wife of the owner of the team riled up by claiming that they get all the calls.
It's really the little things in life that give people true joy.
Mike Waltz fights back tears revealing what Hamas hostage refused to do before release
UNITED NATIONS — Three years after the worst massacre in Israel’s history, Eliya Cohen — who survived 505 days in Hamas captivity — took the stage at the United Nations alongside his newlywed wife, Ziv Abud, a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre, and tried to explain to some of the world’s top diplomats what he had endured.
"They didn't let me change clothes or to get a shower, even to eat or to drink," he said. "They chained me with heavy iron chains by my leg," Cohen said during an emotional discussion moderated by Dr. Phil McGraw at Israel’s U.N. commemoration Tuesday.
He said lights were kept on to prevent the hostages from sleeping and that captors would enter repeatedly during the night screaming in an effort to frighten them. Cohen said they were not permitted to use a restroom and that at times survival felt almost impossible.
FREED HOSTAGE ROM BRASLAVSKI DETAILS ABUSE, STARVATION DURING 738 DAYS IN GAZA CAPTIVITY
But he described repeatedly forcing his mind away from the violence and toward the possibility of returning home.
"Don't think about the violence. Don't think about the torture. Don't think about everything," Cohen recalled telling himself. "Just continue, stay strong. And maybe one day, you will come back home to your family."
Cohen was among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack, when about 1,200 people were killed in southern Israel in their homes and in the Nova Music festival. It was the deadliest single day in Israel’s history. He personally lost 48 people he knew that day.
His wife, Ziv, carried a different piece of the same story.
Abud and Cohen had arrived at the Nova festival shortly before dawn with her 19-year-old nephew Amit and his girlfriend Karin. When the attack began, they eventually took refuge in a roadside bomb shelter that Cohen said was designed for roughly eight people but became packed with 29.
HAMAS USED SEXUAL VIOLENCE 'DELIBERATELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY' ON OCT 7, COMMISSION REPORT FINDS
Abud told the audience that more than 40 terrorists later attacked the shelter with grenades and gunfire. One man inside repeatedly grabbed grenades and threw them back outside before he was killed, she said.
As the attack continued, Cohen covered Abud with bodies — an act that saved her life.
"I lost my consciousness. Eliya was kidnapped," Abud said. "And after seven hours, I woke up in the shelter. I found myself in a pile of bodies."
She paused, fighting back the tears. "It wasn't even bodies. It was body parts."
Abud said she then saw that Amit and Karin had been killed. "I needed to sit with the bodies for seven more hours," she said. She was eventually rescued, one of seven survivors from the shelter.
"We were four people that went to the festival from the same house," Abud said, "And I'm the only one that came back home that night."
FORMER HAMAS HOSTAGE COUNTERS HASAN PIKER’S UT AUSTIN EVENT WITH HER STORY OF SURVIVAL
For 505 days, she campaigned for Cohen’s return without knowing whether the man she loved would ever come home. Cohen, meanwhile, said he believed while in captivity that Abud had been killed.
The couple married weeks before Tuesday’s ceremony.
"But now he's here," Abud said. "And I can look forward to the future after we got married."
She said she hoped the years ahead would include "kids and family because we are here and we survived. And we need to live a normal life," she said.
Another Oct. 7 survivor who addressed the diplomats was Oriya Berlin, a young Israeli visual intelligence observer who had arrived at a base in the Gaza border area just two days before the attack.
Berlin said she woke on the morning of Oct. 7 believing she was hearing a thunderstorm.
"Outside, thousands of missiles were raining down with a single objective: to destroy my life and the lives of my friends," she said.
Berlin and four other soldiers ran barefoot and in pajamas into a small shelter. They were unarmed. She said the women initially believed the incursion would resemble scenarios they had studied during training — a small squad that Israeli forces could quickly contain.
Seconds later, she said, they heard vehicles and gunfire. Berlin described roughly 60 heavily armed terrorists attacking the base. At one point, she said, a message appeared in the unit’s WhatsApp group telling soldiers to shout "IDF" in Hebrew so Israeli troops could find them. The broken Hebrew immediately raised suspicions that a terrorist had taken a soldier’s phone.
They remained silent.
Berlin said they then heard another group shouting for soldiers to identify themselves, followed by a burst of gunfire and silence.
Ten hours after the attack began, she said, special forces finally reached them.
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Berlin said that after learning how many of her friends had been murdered or kidnapped, she could not remain at home. Although she was offered the opportunity to leave military service, Berlin said she refused and returned as an observer for another six months before later moving into the IDF Public Diplomacy Office.
"I wanted the world to see that the IDF is not just an intimidating military force on a television screen," she said. "It was also a 5'2" fake blonde girl like me who simply wanted to protect her home, her family, and her friends."
She said she has since spoken before audiences ranging from international organizations to high school students who told her "I was wasting their time because of their deep-seated anti-Israel hostility." "But I stayed," Berlin said. "I spoke because the truth demands a voice."
Berlin said her decision to continue speaking was rooted in the friends who did not survive.
Before the ceremony, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz met privately with Cohen and Abud, asking Cohen how he was feeling physically and telling the couple how good it was to see them "healthy and alive."
Minutes later, from the stage, Waltz became visibly emotional as he recounted a part of Cohen’s captivity that he said he had been unable to get out of his mind.
Waltz said that on the night before Cohen’s release, Hamas tried to make him record a propaganda video claiming he had been treated well. "He refused," Waltz said. "He held firm. He said no."
Waltz said Hamas again tried to turn Cohen’s release into propaganda the following day, placing him before cameras and instructing him to raise his hands.
"He refused again," Waltz said. "Eliya, we salute you. I salute you," Waltz continued. "You are a proud, strong Jew. You're undefeated, man" he said with his voice breaking.
The hostage crisis stretched over two years and several rounds of negotiations, releases and rescue operations. Waltz told Fox News Digital after Tuesday’s ceremony that he wanted the commemoration to acknowledge both the loss of Oct. 7 and how much had changed since.
"October 7th, 2023, was their 9/11, was their Pearl Harbor," Waltz said. "More Jews were brutally massacred that day than any day since the Holocaust."
He said it was important "to recognize the loss" and "hear directly from the survivors," but also to take stock of the region three years later.
"We have President Trump's 20-point peace plan. We have a U.N. resolution establishing the International Stabilization Force," Waltz told Fox News Digital. "He's determined to not repeat what's happened so often in the past, where Hamas rebuilds, Iran rearms, they attack again, and you have this devastation all over again."
Waltz pointed to broader shifts across the Middle East.
"Iran is on its back foot. Lebanon has hope, Syria has hope. Iraq has hope," he said.
He said he hoped the commemoration could combine "remembrance, the perspective, and I think charting, trying to chart a path of hope and peace for the future."
From the stage, Waltz argued that Oct. 7 had produced the opposite strategic result from what Iran and its allies sought. "October 7 completely, and I think irreversibly, has backfired on Iran and all of their terrorist proxies," he said, pointing to changes in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq and the expansion of Israel’s regional relationships.
He ended with a message to the audience: "America will stand with the Jewish people."
"Be strong. Be resilient. Be wise," Waltz said. "And know that what you're doing is right. Stand with your moral compass and know that this administration, the United States of America, stands with you."
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon used the gathering — attended by ambassadors and diplomats from multiple countries — to turn his attention to the institution hosting it.
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"Even in this building, the U.N. is trying to demonize and isolate Israel," Danon said. "They have turned the victim into the accused, comparing our IDF soldiers to Hamas terrorists."
Danon said he has been told by colleagues that he takes criticism of Israel at the U.N. ‘too personally’.
"Indeed, it is personal," he responded. "My daughter is serving right now in the IDF. My son served as an officer in the IDF," Danon said. "He was supposed to be on the Re'im base next to Gaza on October 7th. The last minute, he was released home for the holiday."
"That's why it's personal," Danon said. "The U.N. tries to demonize all of our sons and daughters, our lions and lionesses who give everything so we can freely live in our homeland. So yes, it is personal. It's personal for all of us."
For Cohen and Abud, however, the event eventually returned from geopolitics to something much smaller: the possibility of an ordinary future.
Abud said they hoped to have children and build a family despite knowing that Oct. 7 and the 505 days that followed would remain part of their lives.
Cohen, asked by McGraw what he would say if the terrorists who abducted and tortured him were watching, needed only a few words.
"I won," Cohen said.
"I won and I'm here."
He then turned his message outward.
"Stay proud to be Jewish," Cohen said. "And stay proud to be Israeli."
"We are here to stay."
The best defense against high-tech AI scams is low-tech skepticism, expert warns
As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves to make financial scams hyperrealistic, cybersecurity experts warn that the best defense isn't sophisticated detection software.
It's good old-fashioned human skepticism.
While adversarial states like China and Russia leverage AI on a global scale, average Americans are most frequently targeted by cybercriminals looking to exploit personal vulnerabilities for a quick payout, according to cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright.
"Let's go back to around 1860, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote, ‘Believe nothing that you hear and only one half that you see,’" Wright told Fox News Digital. "That advice is as good now as it was 160 years ago."
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AI technology has allowed bad actors to automate and scale personalized fraud schemes against everyday citizens. Generative tools eliminate language barriers, draft convincing phishing texts and generate hyperrealistic voice and video clones.
By capturing just a few seconds of audio — often scraped from social media — fraudsters can convincingly replicate the voice of a family member. Wright pointed to the case of Deborah Del Mastro, a California mother who lost thousands of dollars after scammers used AI to clone her daughter’s voice to stage a terrifying kidnapping hoax.
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"It's my daughter's voice," Del Mastro recalled during an interview on The CyberGuy Report podcast. "And she's having a panic attack."
Convinced her daughter was in immediate danger, Del Mastro transferred more than $5,000 to the scammers before realizing she had been swindled.
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"When you can fool a mother, that's how good these things are getting," Wright said of the voice-cloning technology. "What they do is use manipulation, influence and deceit. The more urgent I can make it sound, the more you're going to lower your guard and take action."
Wright, who has trained federal, state and local law enforcement in behavioral analysis, interviewing and interrogation — including teams at the FBI and the National Security Agency — emphasized that every scam relies on basic psychological triggers.
His primary advice for anyone on the receiving end of a suspicious call or message is to pause before reacting.
"We're not storming the beaches at Normandy; you're not going to get arrested," Wright said. "No law enforcement agency sends you an unsolicited text saying you're about to get arrested."
While AI platforms roll out updated security features, scammers continuously find ways around them, making software-based detection a constant moving target.
"We hear about all the different models from xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini. They change models constantly," Wright said.
"So, when the model changes, how effective is [detection software]? We don't know because this stuff is moving so fast. What you see today will be drastically different tomorrow."
Amy Klobuchar calls for major anti-terrorism investments after alleged Mall of America plot
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic nominee for Minnesota governor, praised law enforcement Wednesday after the FBI arrested an 18-year-old man accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at the Mall of America.
"I'm grateful for the heroic work of law enforcement that prevented a mass shooting and terrorist attack at the Mall of America," she said in a statement. "This shows why we continue to need major coordinated investments in anti-terrorism and local law enforcement to stop attacks like these. Our state must take terrorism and violent crime head on, working with our federal law enforcement and local police departments to keep Minnesotans safe."
Klobuchar, who has represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate since 2007, is running against Republican Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth in the November gubernatorial election.
MALL OF AMERICA TERROR PLOT THWARTED, SUSPECTED ISIS SYMPATHIZER ARRESTED, FBI ANNOUNCES
Her statement came after federal authorities announced the arrest of Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, who investigators say pledged allegiance to ISIS and discussed carrying out a mass shooting at the Mall of America.
According to federal court documents, Mohamud allegedly spent months discussing plans for an attack before buying an AK-47-style rifle, four magazines and roughly 200 rounds of ammunition from an undercover FBI employee Tuesday. The rifle had been rendered inoperable, though the ammunition was live.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Mohamud "allegedly obtained a weapon he hoped to use in a mass casualty attack in support of ISIS, but this FBI arrested him and put a stop to his plans."
President Donald Trump also praised the FBI’s handling of the case while speaking to reporters Wednesday.
"I did hear about it. And they did a great job. The FBI did a great job," Trump said.
Mohamud is charged with knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition while knowing or having reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a felony and federal crime of terrorism.
Fox News Digital's Stephen Sorace and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
California education candidate tells college professors to teach students basic math, rejects SAT requirement
California state superintendent candidate Richard Barrera drew criticism Tuesday from his opponent and education advocates after telling UC professors it was their job to teach students who arrive without basic math skills and rejecting the return of standardized testing requirements as the University of California confronts growing concerns over college readiness.
Barrera, president of the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education and a senior policy advisor to state superintendent Tony Thurmond, made the comments during a Sunday interview with NBC Los Angeles political reporter Conan Nolan. Barrera was asked whether the SAT should return as a requirement for the UC system as professors raise alarms about students entering elite universities without foundational math skills.
"Absolutely not," Barrera said. "So math teachers at UCLA and Berkeley and every place else, part of your job that you get paid by the taxpayers to do is to teach our kids."
Barrera told Fox News Digital that concerns about UC students being unable to perform basic math were "completely overstated," arguing that some incoming students instead just need review in subjects they had not studied recently, and that universities shared responsibility for helping them catch up.
"I do think that this idea that students are coming in not knowing fractions is completely overstated," Barrera said. "What we're seeing is students who take a placement test, in the summer before they attend their freshman year at UC, who might miss questions on algebra, on trigonometry, maybe subjects that they haven't had in a couple of years. That's just about review and acceleration."
"This is not about students who are incapable of doing the work," he added. "This is about students who need some review and acceleration, and it is the responsibility of UC to participate in that acceleration."
Chino Valley Unified School District Board President Sonja Shaw, Barrera's opponent in the November race for state superintendent of public instruction, told Fox News Digital that his response shifted responsibility away from California's K-12 education system.
"Richard Barrera heard professors at Berkeley and UCLA sound the alarm that incoming students can’t do elementary-school math and his immediate response was to blame the professors. Not the students. Not the system that passed them along. The professors," Shaw said.
"His brilliant solution? Force college faculty to teach remedial middle-school math on the taxpayer dime, and claim that bringing back the SAT is somehow ‘exclusionary,’" she added. "That’s not a plan. That’s a career politician scrambling to cover up a failure he helped create."
Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that Barrera's opposition to standardized testing protected California's K-12 education system from accountability for students reaching college without foundational math skills.
"Richard Barrera’s answer tells you everything you need to know about who he works for. The California Teachers Association is bankrolling his campaign for state superintendent, and he is returning the favor by protecting the system from accountability," DeAngelis said.
Nolan followed up by asking Barrera whether professors at some of the country's leading universities should be responsible for teaching students fractions. Barrera said some students had overcome significant obstacles to reach those campuses.
"Listen, we've got students who are coming up from incredible experiences, first-generation students overcoming so many barriers to be on the campus," Barrera said. "Those students are capable of learning quickly. What they need is a little support to be caught up. What they don't need is to be excluded."
Tina Descovich, CEO and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, told Fox News Digital that students arriving at college without foundational skills reflected problems that began years before they reached a university classroom.
"A child who can't do fractions at 18 was a child who couldn't do fractions at ten, and the system knew it," she said. "Richard Barrera's solution is to make it a college professor's problem and continue to cover up the failures of the status quo. Parents in California have watched their kids get passed along for years. Now they're being told the people who did the passing along deserve a promotion."
The exchange came months after more than 1,400 faculty members signed an open letter calling for SAT and ACT math requirements to be restored for STEM applicants. By August, more than 3,000 faculty members had signed letters raising concerns about academic preparation.
California's state testing results show a similar proficiency gap before students reach college. According to the state's 2024-25 Smarter Balanced assessment results, 30.49% of 11th graders met or exceeded the standard in mathematics, compared with 56.96% in English language arts.
DeAngelis said that those results undercut the argument that students reaching college without foundational math skills merely need additional support once on campus.
"About 30 percent of California 11th graders meet math standards," he said. "That result is not a story about first-generation students who just need a little catch-up once they reach campus. That failure is a system that handed out diplomas without requiring mastery, then blamed the score for noticing."
Barrera defended his opposition to restoring the SAT or ACT requirements in UC admissions, saying that concerns about students needing additional academic preparation predated the university system’s decision to eliminate standardized tests and arguing the exams had historically excluded some applicants.
"It's not the elimination of the SAT, you know, that is what we need to look at," Barrera said. "The question that we all need to be asking ourselves is, what are the best strategies to get students prepared for college-level math? And simply having a placement exam like the SAT, which is historically discriminatory towards students of color, towards first-generation students — it's a tool that has historically excluded students."
"Why would we reinstitute that, knowing that that has shown no relevance in helping improve students' preparedness for college-level math?" he added.
The UC Board of Regents' current admissions policy prohibits SAT and ACT scores from being used in its comprehensive admissions review, but the university system is now formally reconsidering standardized testing.
Shaw said that the state should instead focus on whether students master core subjects before reaching college.
"Students are not helped by being lied to about their skills," she said. "They’re helped by actually learning to read, write, and do math before they get to college. That requires high standards in K-12 enforced consistently and measured honestly."
"It does not mean turning UCLA and Berkeley into expensive elementary schools and then blaming the faculty for noticing the problem," she added. "Lowering the bar one more time will not fix a decade of failure. It will just hide it longer."
Comedy stars lash out at Sebastian Maniscalco over SiriusXM shake-up
Sebastian Maniscalco has found himself in hot water with some comedians who are claiming that his new SiriusXM channel is taking away money and exposure from working-class comics.
Earlier this year, SiriusXM changed a long-running channel in its lineup called Raw Comedy that often featured lesser-known comedians to Sebastian Maniscalco's Comedy Radio. The new station more prominently features famous comedians now.
Stand Up for Stand Up, a nonprofit that supports comedians, recently wrote an article saying the rebranding has "drastically shifted from a wider pool of 800-plus comedians enjoying spins (and thus, royalties and exposure to the audience of listeners)" on the channel "to a narrower pool of comedians getting plays per month.
"And of those few hundred who are getting spins, over 75% of the plays are going to the top 50 artists, which results in a concentration of wealth among the top echelon, which is largely made up of big-name celebrity comics."
The nonprofit called the change "bad for comedians, and bad for the future of comedy," adding, "it hurts passive revenue, and discoverability, as well as the infrastructure that supports up and coming comedians."
Comedian Matt Ruby on his Substack page claimed the channel was "crushing middle class comedians who rely on payments from the company to pad income."
Liz Miele, another comedian, said in a video on her Instagram, "This year, the Raw channel on SiriusXM became Sebastian Maniscalco’s channel. Great. Fine. Celebrities have taken over channels before. Never been an issue. The problem is Raw went from playing 800 working-class comedians to now playing less than 300 celebrity comedians like Joan Rivers, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Norm Macdonald. Just dead comic, dead comic, dead comic, and then a plethora of very famous alive comedians that might not even know about this extra income that they’re about to receive."
She added that every "working-class comedian that has been kicked off the channel is quite aware" of the money they've lost.
Comedian Gianmarco Soresi posted a photo of Maniscalco on X with the caption, "Aren’t you embarrassed?"
Comedian Ashley Ray, who relied on the income, wrote on X, "Those checks went from covering a car payment to barely covering a quarter of weed, i hate this man."
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Famous names like Patton Oswalt, Michelle Wolf and Margaret Cho also implored Maniscalco to do something this week.
"I know you didn’t mean to do anything bad by doing it. You can easily reverse this decision. Get those young comedians back on the Sirius channel," Oswalt said in a Facebook video. "Let them get those checks."
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Wolf also pleaded with Maniscalco in a Facebook video, saying, "Comics, we’re together on this. We want it to change."
"Sebastian, give working comedians a chance," Cho said in a video on her Facebook.
Others took to social media to defend Maniscalco.
"Sirius radio did this not Sebastian," one X user wrote. "Jesus Christ the dude is always there for young comics."
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Another user said, "TBH this likely has little to do with him, his name is just on the channel. Altho I do miss when Raw Dog was actually raw w/some of the edgiest comics."
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"His reps think this is gonna blow over — and they're right," a third added.
"The amount of comedians that think Sebastian Maniscalco is a program director is f---ing sad," another person wrote on X. "He sold his name to be on the channel hes not deciding who gets played."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, SiriusXM said, "SiriusXM works together with our creative partners to program the best possible experience for our listeners.
"The launch of Sebastian Maniscalco’s Comedy Radio introduced a new creative direction and a regularly evolving programming mix for the channel, and SiriusXM continues to invest in comedians more than any other audio platform to deliver a wide range of comedy offerings across our channels."
The company said in a press release announcing the new channel in April that the channel would be "curated and headlined by Maniscalco."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Maniscalco for comment.
Arizona Sports Betting — Best Sportsbooks and Apps | Outkick
Arizona sports betting has been live since September 9, 2021, when the Arizona Department of Gaming licensed its first online operators. Bettors in the state can now choose from 15 legal sportsbook apps.
Sports betting is legal in Arizona and has been since 2021. The Arizona Department of Gaming has provided licenses to 15 different sportsbooks. Anyone over the age of 21 can wager on sports in Arizona, and some fantasy apps are available to anyone over 18.
Sports betting has boomed over the years, and Arizona residents are provided with many options to choose from. However, making that choice can prove difficult. Below, we’ve compiled some highlights and lowlights of some of the sportsbooks that are available in Arizona.
Arizona sportsbooks will give new users a gift for signing up with them. Typically, it is provided as a bet-and-get option, which allows a user to bet a low dollar amount and receive a chunk of money in bonus funds or bets. Another option might be to provide a deposit match, where the sportsbook will give you an equal amount (or a fraction of) your total deposit. The other common welcome offer from Arizona sportsbooks is a profit boost bet. This allows users to wager on a game and get double or some percentage of their winnings boosted. Keep in mind the rewards are typically given in bonus funds, which do expire or require playthrough in order for you to be able to cash them.
Sports betting has been legal in Arizona since April 15, 2021, when House Bill 2772 (2021) was signed into law. The first sportsbook was launched on September 9th, 2021.
Arizona has multiple popular teams to wager on, with most of them coming from the Phoenix area. The Coyotes, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, and Suns are all professional franchises for the big four sports.
Arizona sports bettors can wager on college sports, including in-state teams. However, there are no college player props allowed, including season-long individual awards.
There are a few physical locations in Arizona where you can wager on sports. State Farm Stadium, Chase Field, TPC Scottsdale, and multiple casinos are the locations.
Licensed Retail Locations:
BetMGM Sportsbook at State Farm Stadium – Glendale
Caesars Sportsbook at Chase Field – Phoenix
FanDuel Sportsbook at Footprint Center – Phoenix
BetMGM Sportsbook at Gila River Hotels & Casinos - Wild Horse Pass – Chandler
BetMGM Sportsbook at Gila River Hotels & Casinos - Lone Butte – Chandler
BetMGM Sportsbook at Gila River Hotels & Casinos - Vee Quiva – Laveen Village
BetMGM Sportsbook at Gila River Hotels & Casinos - Santan Mountain – Chandler
Caesars Sportsbook at Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino – Maricopa
Desert Diamond Casino - West Valley – Glendale
Desert Diamond Casino - Tucson – Tucson
Desert Diamond Casino - Sahuarita – Sahuarita
SolSports Sportsbook at Casino Del Sol – Tucson
CAZ Sports Bar at Casino Arizona – Scottsdale
Talking Stick Resort Sportsbook – Scottsdale
Betfred Sportsbook at We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort – Fort McDowell
Hard Rock Bet Sportsbook at Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort – Flagstaff
Yes, sports betting is legal for anyone over 21 in Arizona.
The best sportsbook in Arizona is whichever one you enjoy the most. They are all a little different, and with no restrictions on the amount you can use, we encourage you to try any that look good to you.
You must be at least 21 to wager on sports in Arizona. Some fantasy apps will allow you to play if you’re 18 or older.
Yes, you can bet on any college sports team; however, you cannot wager on any individual player prop for a game or season-long.
You do not need to live in Arizona to register there, but you do need to physically be in the state when you place the wager.
There are 15 legal sports betting apps in Arizona.
You can wager on sports at any one of the retail sportsbooks in the state.
Ohio high school football team pulls off the most amazing half of football ever & the wokes want Sophie FIRED!
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We're in the thick of it now, boys and girls. Today is the final day with four MLB games back-to-back-to-back-to-back until ... who knows when? Next March? Next May? 2028? It's anyone's guess. Enjoy it.
We've also got two college football games tonight, NFL tomorrow and a whole slate of both on Saturday and Sunday. It's all ahead of us right now, folks. Let's lock it in, and not waste a single second.
Let's roll.
Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where a high school football team in Ohio pulled off maybe the most amazing half of football I've ever seen.
Spoiler alert: They managed to possess the football for all 24 minutes. Every single one of them. Animals.
You'll see!
What else? I've got an update on the NASCAR driver who owes an ex-wife $850K after seducing her husband, the wokes are mad at Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark for two hilarious reasons and we've got two postseason pitchers taking very different approaches to the birth of their children this week.
Shockingly, it's caused quite a stir on social media. That almost never happens. We're always so agreeable!
OK, grab you a Fluffernutter in preparation for tomorrow's National Fluffernutter Day, and settle in for a Hump Day 'Cap!
Look at that commercial. Man, what a time to be alive. Watch that, and then pay attention to the garbage we get in between innings of today's baseball game(s).
It's shocking. It's so sad. Our creativity has just gone down the toilet.
Pathetic.
Anyway, I do love a good fluffernutter. Admittedly, it's been, easily, 20 years since I've had one, but man they were elite back in middle and high school. I assume fluff has been all but canceled in today's MAHA world, which is fine. I live with a MAHA mom. Trust me, I get it.
But goodness gracious, they were the best back in the day. Opening up your brown bag in the middle school cafeteria and seeing that mom packed you a fluffernutter sammy was the best feeling.
Simpler times.
OK, let's stay in grade school and get this class started with a couple Ohio high school football team playing keep-away from each other last Friday night.
Amazing:
I went back and watched the entire second, and can confirm that Fairmont did indeed possess the ball all 24 minutes. I've never seen anything like it.
Just ground-n-pound the length of the field — twice — and execute a pair of onside kicks. Wild stuff. Reminded me of my high school's old Wing-T offense.
Those games were absolute slobberknockers every single time. I miss the heck outta them.
Now, some folks are asking about the onside kicks...
The first "onside" kick wasn't visible on the above YouTube stream because the video froze, but the announcers did call it an onside kick.
The second one wasn't so much an onside kick as it was the kicker just drilling the opposing player in front of him and Fairmont pouncing on the ball. Not sure if that was the plan or not, but it worked out.
Regardless, the final stats are staggering:
I covered a lot of high school football back in the day. I don't think I missed a Friday night in seven years. I came semi-close to one of these games back in 2015 when I watched a huge underdog just run the wildcat for an entire quarter. They gained about three yards per carry, and then converted all the fourth downs. It was incredible. Ate up almost 12 straight minutes.
What a game. What a sport. High school football is the best.
You know what's NOT the best? Cheating on your spouse in a Comfort Inn and letting the whole hotel know about it:
So, I wrote about that in last Thursday's Nightcaps, and I'm happy (?) to report that we have our smoking gun in the case.
According to court records obtained by the Daily Mail, the ex-wife of longtime NASCAR spotter Clayton Hughes hired a private investigator months before the two divorced. The PI, Jim Rorie, told a court that he heard Jennifer Jo Cobb and Hughes having "rambunctious" sex in a Comfort Inn on Oct. 2020 after he followed him to the hotel via a tracking device planted on his car.
"There was no doubt about what I was hearing," he told a court, adding that he heard "the squeaking of the bed, quite a bit of that, female tones moaning — and occasionally a male’s voice.
"As the squeaking continued, the tones of a male moaning and saying, ‘Oh f–k’ and ‘Oh my God’ were distinctly heard," Rorie continued. "I believe there was one point where I heard the female yell, ‘Don’t stop.'"
Welp. Probably not the worst thing to happen in a Comfort Inn in Martinsville, but it's certainly up there!
OK, let's rapid-fire this Hump Day class into a big Hump Day night. First up? Let's see how the miserable wokes are handling Day 3 of the Indiana Fever's offseason ...
Let me get this straight ...
You've got one insufferable columnist from the woke New York Times saying Sophie Cunningham should be cut because she's too much of a distraction ... because she told ESPN six months ago that men shouldn't be in women's locker rooms?
Okeedokee!
At the same time, you have someone I've never heard of in my life, Charlotte Wilder, getting all bent out of shape because Caitlin Clark hung out with Pat McAfee on College GameDay?
Really?
These people are so far gone, and so beyond broken, it's almost unfathomable.
Almost.
What a bunch of weirdos. We live in such a silly time period. My late grandfather always used to tell me, "You really do realize how [stupid] people are the older you get."
He did NOT use the word stupid, by the way, but I'll let y'all figure that one out on your own.
OK, on the way out, I want to leave the class with a question that's currently dividing the internet ...
If your wife is having your baby in October, are you missing playoff baseball games for it?
So, the best closer in baseball — Mason Miller — missed last night's do-or-die Game 3 for the birth of his child. Meanwhile, Yankees starter Max Fried says he ain't missing a single pitch for the birth of his kid.
Where we stand on this, folks? On one hand, these dudes get paid handsomely for these moments. For October baseball. For the playoffs.
On the other hand ... it's the birth of your child. That's a big deal ... for some, at least.
I wanna hear what YOU think. Let it RIP.
See y'all tomorrow.
Lemme know! Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.
Virginia Sports Betting — Best Sportsbooks and Apps | Outkick
Virginia sports betting has been live online since Jan. 1, 2021, when the Virginia Lottery licensed its first online operators. Bettors in the state can now choose from over a dozen legal sportsbook apps.
Sports betting is legal in Virginia for any person physically located in the state and 21 years of age or older at the time the wager is placed. Sports betting in Virginia is regulated by the Virginia Lottery.
With over ten different apps for users to choose from in Virginia, picking a sports betting app can be a challenge for residents. We’ve tried to help you make an informed decision about what app to use for sports betting in Virginia with some highlights and downsides about the apps.
Welcome offers provide a nice way for new sports bettors to get in on the action. Virginia sportsbooks tend to offer new users one of three formats: deposit match, profit boosts, or bet-and-get formats for their reward. A deposit match will give a new user bonus cash matching at 100% or lower for their initial deposit. Profit boosts are provided to give you a chance at more winnings if you hit your first bet. A bet-and-get offer usually requires a new bettor to wager a small amount and receive bonus funds in their account.
Sports betting has been legal in Virginia since April 22, 2020, when Governor Ralph Northam signed House Bill 896 into law. The online market launched before retail spaces, with the first mobile sportsbook live on January 21, 2021. The first retail location opened July 8th, 2022.
Virginia does not have any professional sports teams and is the most populous state without a major sports franchise. They do have some popular college teams like Virginia, Virginia Tech, and even smaller schools such as George Mason or Liberty.
Betting on college sports is legal in Virginia, but you cannot bet on any in-state team or player props in any state.
Virginia does have multiple retail sportsbook locations, with most of them located at casinos or racetracks. There are electronic betting kiosks or actual humans taking the wagers for you at the locations.
Licensed Retail Locations:
Caesars Virginia (Caesars Sportsbook) – Danville
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol (Hard Rock Bet) – Bristol
Rivers Casino Portsmouth (BetRivers Sportsbook) – Portsmouth
Yes, sports betting is legal in Virginia for any person over 21 and physically in the state at the time of placing the bet.
The best sportsbook in Virginia is whichever one you enjoy using the most. There are dozens of apps and all have their benefits and drawbacks, so give them all a try!
You must be at least 21 to place a wager on sports in Virginia.
Yes, you can bet on college sports in Virginia, but you cannot bet on any in-state school or collegiate player props in any state.
You do not need to be a Virginia resident to bet there, but you do need to register and physically be located inside the state when you place the wager.
There are over a dozen legal mobile apps to bet on sports in Virginia.
Yes, you can bet on sports in Virginia without an app at retail locations, mostly located inside of casinos.
Paramore's Hayley Williams targets Christian nationalism as America's 'greatest threat' to democracy
Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams faced criticism after telling fans during a September concert that Christian nationalism is "the greatest threat to American democracy," adding another political declaration to a tour where she had repeatedly spoken out against President Donald Trump, immigration enforcement and Israel's war in Gaza.
In the recirculated clip, Williams made the declaration before performing "True Believer," a track from her 2025 solo album, "Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party."
Her statement specifically targeted Christian nationalism, rather than Christians or Christianity broadly.
"The greatest threat to American democracy is Christian nationalism," Williams said.
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Lisa Cusack, president of the Don’t L.A. My Burbank PAC, told Fox News Digital that Williams’ comment ignored Christianity’s influence on the nation’s founding principles and democratic system.
"Incredibly ignorant comment considering Christianity is woven into the fabric of every founding document that proscribes Americans' democratic rights," she said. "There would be no Natural Law without Christianity, and without that, no human rights that exist beyond a government’s power. Christianity sees all people as made in the image of God, so are all valuable, no matter how successful, and puts self-sacrifice above power."
"Democracy has thrived in the Christian nations across the world for a reason. The true threat is this kind of ignorant bigotry," she continued.
At another recent concert, Williams also recently shouted "F--- ICE" and "FREE MOTHERF------ PALESTINE!" while performing her song, "Ice in My OJ," prompting a response from the Department of Homeland Security.
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A DHS spokesperson responded to Williams’ anti-ICE remarks by defending federal immigration officers and urging the singer to recognize their work.
"America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe," the spokesperson said, in a statement to Fox News Digital. "We suggest Ms. Williams to thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice."
Williams has incorporated political commentary into her performances for years.
During Paramore's performance at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival, the singer warned concertgoers against returning Trump to the White House and accused him of supporting an agenda that would harm women, poor Americans, racial minorities and the LGBTQ community.
Williams framed that presidential election as a decision about the future of American democracy.
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"Project 2025 is Donald Trump’s playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community," she said. "It is time for all Americans to band together and to finally defeat the Trump agenda. And the only way to do that is by confronting him at the polls.
"Do you want to live in a dictatorship? Well, show up and vote," she continued.
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Williams also targeted Republican voters during a 2023 performance at the Adjacent Music Festival in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After saying she was comfortable discussing politics, Williams singled out supporters of then-presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.
"If you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re f------ dead to me," Williams said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Williams' publicist for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.