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LSU latest basketball program to tap into G League ranks, signing former pro guard RJ Luis Jr
The NCAA has been a bit of a mess as of late.
Between players getting popped for sports betting scandals and guys in their mid-20s eschewing both the professional ranks and the workforce to stay in college, Van Wilder style, it's hard not to be black-pilled about the current state of college sports.
Speaking of which, we saw yet another case of a college basketball team tapping into the pro ranks to land a player, as the LSU Tigers and head coach Will Wade signed G League guard RJ Luis Jr. earlier on Tuesday.
Luis comes to the Tigers by way of the Maine Celtics, the G League affiliate of the Boston Celtics, and was previously undrafted out of St. John's, where he won Big East Player of the Year a season prior.
To give LSU even a shred of benefit of the doubt here, the Tigers didn't sign Luis in the middle of the season fresh off a G League roster to try and bolster a tournament, so this isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison to the infamous Charles Bediako fiasco that took place in Tuscaloosa earlier this year.
He was, however, signed to a professional team, and is currently ineligible to play for the Tigers this coming season, so he will have to file a lawsuit to resume his college career.
While this isn't quite as bad as the aforementioned situation that took place with Nate Oats and the Alabama Crimson Tide, the signing of Luis by LSU has many people wondering where the line will be drawn when it comes to collegiate basketball.
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It truly feels like the Wild West in collegiate athletics right now, and basketball seems to be the tip of the spear when it comes to bending the rules.
It's tough to say whether Luis will be ruled eligible or not, but if he gets the green flag, the floodgates will open for college hoops programs across the country to try and sign as many undrafted free agents and G League players as they can.
If you're a big college sports fan and you're worried about the sport falling down a slippery slope, I'd go ahead and toss those fears out the window, because we seem to already be at the bottom of Mount Everest.
Whether or not we can ever climb back to the summit remains to be seen, but I'm not going to get my hopes up anytime soon.
NAACP asks Black athletes to boycott SEC, ACC powers in latest sports-as-politics pressure campaign
The NAACP is once again asking Black athletes to use sports as political leverage and put their own interests aside to advance the organization's radical left-wing agenda.
This time, college football country is the target.
The organization launched its "Out of Bounds" campaign Tuesday. It calls on Black athletes, recruits, families, fans, alumni and consumers to withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in states it accuses of weakening black voting representation after the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling. The NAACP identified Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia as priority states.
Essentially, the NAACP wants elite Black athletes to avoid going to schools primarily in the SEC and ACC until politics change. Yeah, good luck with that.
The NAACP said the campaign is aimed at flagship public athletic programs generating more than $100 million in annual revenue and continuing to recruit Black athletes while their state governments, in the group’s view, "dismantle the political power of Black communities."
"The same power that built these programs can be redirected. And it will be," NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson said in the release.
The campaign’s primary ask is for top football and basketball recruits to withhold commitments from targeted programs (such as the University of Alabama, LSU, the University of Georgia and Florida State) until those states "restore fair congressional maps and meaningful Black representation." The NAACP is also asking current college athletes to consider the transfer portal and use their name, image and likeness (NIL) platforms to elevate voting rights. Fans, alumni and donors are being asked to stop buying tickets, merchandise and licensed apparel from targeted programs and redirect that money to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
It's somewhat ironic that an organization that claims to "advocate, agitate, and litigate for the civil rights due to Black America" is openly encouraging young Black men to potentially sacrifice their futures to advance a political agenda. Seems counterintuitive.
The Associated Press reported that the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips and NCAA President Charlie Baker. The letter threatened to oppose federal athlete-contract legislation (the Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements Act, known as the SCORE Act) unless the conferences oppose GOP-led redistricting efforts in states with major conference members.
So, yes, the pressure campaign is pretty obvious.
The NAACP wants high school and college athletes, many of them teenagers, to take on state legislatures by threatening the economic engine of college athletics.
Of course, this is not a new strategy.
In 2021, the NAACP urged professional free agents to avoid signing with teams in Texas over voting laws, abortion policy and COVID-19 policies. The organization said at the time it sent a letter to the NFLPA, WNBPA, NBPA, MLBPA and NHLPA asking athletes to reconsider moving their families to Texas.
The message then was not subtle.
"If you are a woman, avoid Texas. If you are Black, avoid Texas. If you want to lower your chances of dying from coronavirus, avoid Texas," the NAACP letter said.
Then, in 2024, the organization called on Black student-athletes to reconsider attending public colleges and universities in Florida after the state’s DEI crackdown. That push came after the University of Florida dismantled its DEI department, and the NAACP argued that Florida’s public universities "rely on Black talent recruited to their athletics programs."
Now, the same general playbook is being expanded.
This time, the message is not just "avoid Texas" or "reconsider Florida." It’s a much broader call for Black athletes and fans to withhold support from public universities across much of the South.
The NAACP even gave the campaign a slogan: "No Representation. No Recruitment. No Revenue."
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At least the branding is clear.
The rollout wasn't quite as clean.
The NAACP’s own press release contained a date error, identifying the post as a "Press Statement May 19, 2026" at the top before dating the release "May 19, 2027" in the body.
That probably won’t be the biggest problem for the campaign, though.
The bigger issue is that the NAACP is asking elite athletes to make college decisions based on state-level politics, not coaching staffs, playing time, development, NIL opportunity, facilities, education, relationships or NFL preparation.
Try telling a five-star football recruit from Georgia, Alabama, Texas or Louisiana that he should turn down an SEC powerhouse because of a congressional map and see how that goes. The previous campaigns that targeted Florida and Texas had no visible effect on recruiting or free agency in either college or professional sports.
"This generation of Black athletes understands something that those who came before them were never afforded the chance to say so plainly: your talent is yours, and so is your community’s political power," Tylik McMillan, national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division, said in the release.
Once again, it's interesting to hear someone say "your talent is yours" but then immediately follow that with a statement that essentially says your talent is actually ours and we need to use it to help us further our agenda. The irony is almost too much at times.
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The key is that the NAACP sees Black athletic talent as political power. An organization that claims to fight racism is asking an entire group, based on nothing but skin color, to join a political fight.
The organization is treating these athletes as political pawns instead of as young people with their own families, goals, futures and careers to think about. Some might choose schools because of politics. Most will choose schools because they believe those schools give them the best chance to play, develop, earn and eventually reach the next level.
The NAACP can call this empowerment in a flowery press release, but the message is still pretty clear: Black athletes should make sacrifices for the organization’s preferred political leanings.
'World's sexiest fan' drops her World Cup anthem and here's why you never assist a bike thief
It's Tuesday, and doesn't it feels like Tuesday, which means it's time for an almost-mid-week edition of Nightcaps.
I'm going to be real with you: I feel like this week is going to drag along in a big way.
That's because this weekend is the unofficial start of summer with the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday and Memorial Day on Monday.
By the way, can we just all agree that Memorial Day — the unofficial start of summer — should just be made the official start of summer?
I understand all the science-y reasons why that's not the case, but I also understand that by the time we hit June 20-something and the summer solstice, I will already be a month into what I consider summer.
So let's just go ahead and agree that summer runs from Memorial Day and ends on Labor Day. I don't care what the Earth's planetary movements say. I say this is how it is.
Anyway, I'm in the midst of planning a nice Memorial Day feast, which means making sure I have all the various meats and fuel sources — charcoal, wood, a frosty beverage (I need fuel too) — to churn out some smoky deliciousness.
Of course, it's going to be in the 90s here in Central Florida — or as I like to call it "God's Country" — and any doctor will tell you the best thing to do in heat like that is spend eight to 10 hours standing near a fire, occasionally spraying a big hunk of pork with apple cider vinegar.
But before we get to the weekend, we've got to navigate the rest of this week, and that starts now...
Have you mentioned someone or something, and then all of a sudden you start seeing them or it everywhere?
So, recently I wrote about a replica of KITT from "Knight Rider" that got a traffic ticket, even though it has been sitting in a museum for years. Of course, I mentioned that KITT was voiced by the great William Daniels, and I think it was the first time in my almost four years at OutKick that I mentioned him.
Less than a week later, he's in the news for a reason I just did not see coming.
Of course, at 99 years old, when I see anything about the veteran character known for playing Mr. Feeney on "Boy Meets World," my brainmy brain goes straight to "the ol' dirt nap."
I was relieved to see that wasn't the case, but at a loss for words that he and his wife of 75 years have, or at least had, an understanding.
Back in 2023, Daniels' wife, "Little House on the Prairie" (ZZZzzzzzzzz) actress Bonnie Bartlett, mentioned in her memoir and then told Fox News Digital that they had an open marriage at first.
The couple reiterated this in a recent interview with Daily Mail, and that's why it's going viral. To each their own, and of course, people's lives have ups and downs. If you read up on them, they've certainly had their share of tragedy.
But, wow, if you gave me a thousand guesses as to why William Daniels would be trending, I wouldn't have guessed this.
Seriously. I'd have guessed that he set a land speed record or bought a minor league hockey team before I got to open marriage.
Mr. Feeney imparting that advice to Corey and Topanga would've made one hell of a late-season episode of "Boy Meets World"Boy Meets World.
Combing through social media, I came across a video of an incident that is the epitome of "no good deed goes unpunished.
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It shows a guy beating up a would-be bicycle thief, while a man on a scooter comes in to break things up.
Seems like a good guy move on Scooter Man's part, even if the Bike Thief may have had it coming.
However, Scooter Man quickly learned that the guy feeding Bike Thief knuckle sandwiches may have been onto something when he tried to go all "Grand Theft Auto" on his scooter.
Not even a thank you. Just goes and steals his scooter.
Although, in his defense, maybe the head trauma had him thinking that was actually his scooter.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is just weeks away, and the world's sexiest fan, Ivana Knoll, is putting in the preparation for an event that is pretty much her Super Bowl.
...or World Cup, I guess.
Knoll was bestowed the title of "world's sexiest fan" a couple of World Cups ago, and fresh off pulling camera focus in the Formula 1 paddock, she's dropping some new music to get everyone ready for football, or, as we call it, soccer.
I know what you're thinking: "Matt, you very handsome and funny SOB, I thought Shakira and her truth-tellin' hips released the World Cup anthem last week, and it's called 'Dai Dai.'"
Well, you're correct, but I like that little detail didn't stop Ivana Knoll from dropping her own anthem.
It's like how in 2017, my alma mater, the University of Central Florida (Go Knights! Charge On!), was like, "Yeah, no one cares about your playoff, we're the national champions. Colley matrix. Look it up."
People forget that you can just do things. You can just create holidays. I did that for my birthday. It's called Mattsgiving, and it's great.
Ivana Knoll clearly knows this too, and that's why she's the world's sexiest fan and the rest of us are doomed to be runners-up at best.
We're all used to seeing schools release graphics whenever they bring in a recruit or transfer, but none will make you do a double-take like the news that Pinnis is now a Beaver.
You read that correctly: Former Providence College forward Peteris Pinnis has transferred to Oregon State.
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Oregon State's student section is going to be electrifying if only for the addition of this 7-foot-1 sophomore from Latvia.
I mean, just think of the puns, euphemisms and innuendos that are in play or signs and T-shirts. It's an embarrassment of riches.
Less excited about this will be any broadcaster who has to call an Oregon State game next season.
Phrasing is going to be key unless you want yourself going viral for all the wrong reasons.
Maybe steer clear of saying things like, "Pinnis goes hard in the paint," "Pinnis subs in for the Beavers," "The Beavers really needed Pinnis in the fold."
Hell, it might be best to just call him "Peteris."
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...Actually, come to think of it, that's not much better.
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That's it for this Tuesday edition of Nightcaps!
Have a great rest of the week!
Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice jailed for 30 days after probation violation and it could get worse
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is seemingly incapable of staying out of trouble during an NFL offseason, because he is in jail for violating his probation that he was sentenced to last offseason for a reckless driving charge from the 2024 offseason.
That is a lot of offseason mess-ups by Rice.
The latest came Tuesday when he was found to have tested positive for marijuana (THC) in violation of the July 2025 plea agreement that put him on five years probation and ordered him to serve 30 days in jail over a five-year span.
Rice was booked into Dallas County, Texas, jail on Tuesday and will serve his 30 days. He is scheduled for release on June 16.
The violation order sends Rice immediately to jail for the 30 days he was originally sentenced to serve within five years during his trial rather than add an extra 30 days. In last year's trial, Rice also had to pay a total of $115,481.91 in restitution to the crash victims for their out-of-pocket medical expenses.
With Rice in jail for the next 30 days, he will miss the remainder of the Chiefs OTAs (May 26-28 and June 1-3) and their mandatory minicamp on June 9-11.
The violation was first uncovered by Kansas City's KSHB 41 News and confirmed by OutKick and Fox News.
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Neither the NFL nor the Kansas City Chiefs immediately responded to an email seeking comment.
But things could definitely get worse for Rice.
It is possible this violation of his probation agreement could trigger a new investigation under the NFL's Personal Conduct Policy.
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Rice served a six-game suspension for violating that policy last year in connection to his driving offense and trial.
Rice actually seemed to get off light with that suspension because it was a negotiated deal with the league. The NFL originally wanted Rice's suspension to span a double-digit number of games, per a source. Rice wanted to miss no more than a month, per a source, and the sides agreed to the deal before hearing officer Sue L. Robinson ruled on the matter.
A new Personal Conduct Policy investigation could lead to Rice missing more games when the 2026 regular season begins.
The Chiefs, meanwhile, have an obvious problem on their hands.
Rice, one of the team's better receivers with 156 catches his first three NFL seasons, has proven that he cannot be trusted to stay out of trouble. It is possible the club could fine Rice for missing their mandatory minicamp.
Rice last year pleaded guilty to a charge of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway causing bodily injury – both third-degree felonies.
Rice was unavailable for comment on Tuesday — because he's in jail.
Garrick Higgo splits from caddie after costly two-stroke penalty for missing PGA Championship tee time: report
Garrick Higgo, who was penalized two strokes for missing his opening-round tee time of the PGA Championship last week, has reportedly split from his caddie.
Higgo split with Austin Gaugert and hired Nick Cavendish-Pell, according to Golfweek. Higgo has worked with Cavendish-Pell in the past and will reunite with him for the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
The two strokes Higgo was penalized were incredibly costly, as he missed the cut by one stroke. The 29-year-old shot a 1-under 69 on Thursday after being late, but then shot a 76 on Friday.
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Higgo said during an ESPN broadcast that he was "on time, but late."
"So the rules, if you're one second late, you're late. I was obviously there on time, but late, and that's a two-shot penalty, and you have five minutes from then until you are DQ'd," Higgo began. "Obviously, it's unfortunate. I usually cut it fine. It was cold this morning, I was trying to stay as warm as possible coming off from the range. Yeah, I think it shows a lot of mental strength the way I just kept fighting, and it wasn't going to affect my swing or my putter."
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"It is what it is. My caddie was on the tee box. I didn't have my watch on me. I didn't have my phone. I'm already in the clouds a little as it is. It just is what it is. I don't know what else to do."
Gaugert was Higgo’s caddie when he won the 2025 Corales Puntacana Championship. Cavendish-Pell caddied for Higgo when he won the 2021 Palmetto Championship, his first tournament win.
The South African golfer has made five of 13 cuts this season, and has not yet cracked the top 25 on the leaderboard. Higgo hopes that switching caddies and showing up on time can help him get back on track.
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WATCH: CENTCOM chief unloads after Dem asks ‘how many more Americans’ must die in Iran war
Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper sharply rebuked Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton during a tense House Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday after the Massachusetts Democrat questioned "how many more Americans" would die because of what he called a failed Iran strategy.
"It doesn't seem to be going well," Moulton, D-Mass., said of the Iran war. "And I would like to know how many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake."
"I think it’s an entirely inappropriate statement from you, sir," Cooper responded.
Moulton shot back: "It’s not a statement, it’s a question."
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Fourteen U.S. service members have died in combat since the U.S. launched Operation Epic Fury Feb. 28.
Moulton, a Marine Corps Iraq War veteran and frequent critic of the Trump administration’s Iran strategy, pressed Cooper repeatedly on what he described as the widening consequences of the conflict, including instability in the Strait of Hormuz, rising oil prices and reports that Iran had rebuilt parts of its missile infrastructure.
Cooper pushed back on several of the claims, calling reports that Iran had reconstituted key missile sites "inaccurate" and repeatedly emphasizing that U.S. forces had achieved their assigned military objectives.
The hearing came just after Trump said he directed the military to pause planned operations against Iran for Tuesday at the request of Gulf allies who wanted negotiations with Tehran to continue. The U.S. has been adhering to a ceasefire since April 7.
Gulf leaders asked Trump to pause strikes because "serious negotiations are now taking place, and that, in their opinion, as Great Leaders and Allies, a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and beyond," he wrote on Truth Social Monday.
"This Deal will include, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!" he said.
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The confrontation capped hours of contentious exchanges in which Democrats repeatedly pressed Cooper and Pentagon officials on whether the administration had a viable strategy beyond military strikes, whether ongoing operations complied with the War Powers Resolution and whether the conflict was making the United States less secure despite major battlefield gains against Iran.
Democrats also repeatedly challenged the administration over whether ongoing operations complied with the War Powers Resolution, arguing the continued blockade of Iranian ports and military exchanges in the Strait of Hormuz amounted to active hostilities.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., pressed Cooper over continued military operations in the region, noting U.S. forces had fired on Iranian tankers and exchanged fire with Iranian forces even after the administration notified Congress that hostilities had ended.
"The fact of the matter is that hostilities continue," Garamendi said, accusing the administration of disregarding Congress and the Constitution.
Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., similarly argued that the blockade itself constituted "an act of war," while several Democrats questioned whether the administration planned to seek congressional authorization for any future escalation.
Republicans on the panel, meanwhile, defended the campaign as a historic military success that dramatically weakened Iran’s ability to threaten the United States and its allies.
Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said U.S. operations had "rolled back 40 years of Iranian military investment" and argued the campaign had made both the United States and its allies safer.
Cooper later testified that Iran was "significantly less capable" than before the strikes and said U.S. military action had "derailed Iran’s strategy" across its nuclear, missile and proxy networks.
Joy Behar warns 'we're all going to die' in heated clash with co-hosts over TrumpRx initiative
Co-hosts of "The View" feuded on Tuesday over whether President Donald Trump’s TrumpRx plan is a boon for struggling Americans or is tainted by mere association.
Billionaire Mark Cuban, one of the president's most outspoken critics in recent years, stood on the White House stage with Trump on Monday during the rollout of TrumpRx.gov, which is a new initiative aimed at lowering the cost of 600 generic prescription drugs.
The program partners the Trump administration with major private-sector companies, including Amazon, GoodRx and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs — officially making Trump and Cuban business partners after a history of heated political attacks.
While Whoopi Goldberg seemed neutral on the bipartisan move, co-host Joy Behar retorted, "First of all, you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas," and warned further, "Once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we’re all going to die, okay? He put his name on the Trump Shuttle, the Trump Vodka, Trump University, the Trump Hotel, and my favorite, the casinos that all went bankrupt."
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"The drugs don’t actually have his name," co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin replied, noting these are existing drugs in a marketplace and arguing that mere association with Trump does not taint the initiative.
"A medication I had to take for IVF is a tenth of the price on TrumpRx," she said. "Whatever, it’s tacky that his name on it. Mark Cuban has dedicated his life to bringing down prescription drug costs. The average family, one third of Americans cut back on essential foods and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs. You’re not going to convince me that, just because Trump is involved, we should be like, ‘Screw it, don’t bring down prescription drugs.’"
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Co-host Sunny Hostin seized on how Trump had quipped in footage of the event that he and Cuban have one thing in common, with the president saying, "We want to make people better, and keep them wealthy, right?"
"He said ‘wealthy’ which means to me that there’s something in it for him. This is not a well-intentioned person," Hostin argued.
Co-host Sara Haines noted how many Americans struggle with medical costs, replying that if Trump actually gets results on this issue, he can call it whatever he likes.
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Behar retorted that there were countries like Scandinavia, where governments have national health insurance, to which Griffin shot back that those countries have populations equivalent to New Jersey, and that America is a whole different situation.
"The two of you are so naïve!" Hostin shouted, pointing at Griffin and Haines as the table debated and talked over each other.
Whoopi took a conciliatory tone, trying to address both sides of the debate, then addressed the audience, "We’ll see how it works and if it works for y’all, do it. If it doesn’t, keep it moving."
When asked for comment from Fox News Digital, White House spokesman Kush Desai said, "Joy Behar is an idiot."
MS NOW host roasted for questioning if Mike Johnson is putting 'God over the Declaration of Independence'
MS NOW host Katy Tur was called out for a question she posed to guests on her show Monday about House Speaker Mike Johnson putting "God over the Declaration of Independence."
"What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government, they come from you, our Creator and heavenly father. Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?" Tur asked during her MS NOW show.
The clip went viral on social media, as Johnson and others were quick to call it out.
"Wow. Newsflash to MS Now: The 2nd paragraph of the Declaration literally proclaims the self-evident truth that our rights come from our Creator," Johnson wrote in response to the viral clip.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out the MS NOW host on X, quoting the most famous line from the Declaration.
"How can @KatyTurNBC & MSDNC be so historically ignorant? The Speaker is not putting God ABOVE the Declaration — he is literally QUOTING FROM the Declaration: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,'" he said.
Tur posed the question to The Atlantic's McKay Coppins, who pushed back.
"I actually think that that idea is not wholly uncommon. I mean, the idea that we have certain inalienable rights that come from God can be read in a fairly benign way, which is basically that we have innate human rights, that our Constitution and our government, our democratic government, are meant to codify. Right? That idea is not totally abnormal," he said.
Johnson spoke at the "Rededicate 250" event at the National Mall over the weekend. He led a prayer at the event aimed at "rededicating" America to God ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration.
Coppins suggested the thing that might alarm some people is "some of the rhetoric that we heard at this rally, that we are in a spiritual battle, right? That the forces of good and evil are at work here, and that partisan politics is injected directly into the spiritual biblical rhetoric."
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"Well, in the context of this rally, and with Mike Johnson and the movement, and the move toward Christian nationalism being more embedded in this culture, it’s not as benign when you put it into that context," Tur said in response. "The idea that the rights are divine, or are divined from a higher power, you can say that across multiple religions, yes, but this is not representing multiple religions."
Marc Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist, said Tur displayed "sheer ignorance of the principles of the American founding," and called it "stunning."
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Texas state Rep. Mitch Little suggested someone get Tur a copy of the Declaration.
Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins asked, "Who is going to tell them what the beginning of the Declaration declares?"
Conservative commentator Steve Guest wrote, "MSDNC hosts are historically illiterate."
2026 Eastern Conference Finals best bets, odds, picks: Cleveland Cavaliers vs New York Knicks
It was a weird, winding road to get here. But the two preseason betting favorites to make the NBA Finals out of the East, the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks, will meet in the 2026 Eastern Conference Finals.
Cleveland survived two Game 7s to beat the Toronto Raptors and the Detroit Pistons in the first two rounds. New York rallied from a 2-1 deficit in the first round and has won seven straight, defeating the Atlanta Hawks in six games and sweeping the Philadelphia 76ers to make the conference finals.
The Knicks won the regular-season series 2-1, but the Cavaliers covered the spread twice. NYK's two wins came before the Cavs traded for All-Star PG and Cleveland crushed New York 109-94 in February, when both teams were healthy.
After watching Game 1 of the 2026 Western Conference Finals, this might be a one-year title window for New York and Cleveland. Victor Wembanyama looked like the GOAT and the Oklahoma City Thunder have the best roster in the NBA.
Who will capitalize on their opportunity? Well, that's what we are here to figure out. Below are the series odds, my analysis and best bet for Cavaliers-Knicks in the 2026 Eastern Conference Finals.
Simply put, the Cavs don't have anyone who can guard NYK All-Star PG Jalen Brunson and that's going to swing this series toward New York. Granted, Brunson played poorly against the Cavaliers this season: He averaged 25.7 points on 33.9% shooting in three meetings.
Yet, NYK has the highest offensive efficiency through the first two rounds of the 2026 NBA Playoffs and Cleveland can't focus solely on Brunson. The Cavaliers need All-Star guards James Harden and Donovan Mitchell to be on the floor, but both are terrible defenders.
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New York can hide Brunson on Cavaliers forward Max Strus, who isn't good enough to exploit Brunson's bad defense. The Cavs can't do that with Harden and Mitchell. The Knicks will put them in defensive actions, which takes away from their energy on offense.
Also, NYK can throw forwards Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby and backup guard Miles McBride on The Beard and Spida. With all due respect to the 2024-25 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Cavaliers PF Evan Mobley, Anunoby is the best defender in this series.
Speaking of which, Cleveland's bigs were the reason it ultimately beat Detroit in the last round. However, the Knicks have a better frontcourt, featuring six-time All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns and the second-best defensive big in the NBA, behind Wemby, Mitchell Robinson.
Essentially, the Cavs need to shoot the lights out and get a favorable whistle. While New York should win the "battle for possessions," which is more predictive and the Knicks have better rebounding and turnover rates on both ends of the floor.
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Hezbollah grooms children for martyrdom through its scout movement, report claims
The U.S.-designated Lebanon-based terrorist movement Hezbollah exploits children from its version of the scout movement to carry out jihadi missions that result in their deaths, according to a recent report on Lebanon’s MTV television network.
The Lebanese network’s report — translated by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) — comes amid U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and Beirut.
The report claims that Hezbollah gives child fighters heroes’ funerals and publicly glorifies them before their peers in order to encourage other children to follow in their footsteps. The MTV report said Hezbollah believes that every drop of bloodshed by child soldiers brings victory closer.
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It also claimed that Hezbollah uses its scout movements to cultivate an entire generation of obedient children prepared to die, through rhetoric that glorifies death and martyrdom. The MTV report, according to the MEMRI translation, said that "Hezbollah child soldiers have been used since the 1980s by this outlaw armed group. Not just as armed fighters but as Khomeini-loyal scouts."
The late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, reportedly exploited the use of Iranian children during the country’s 1980-1988 war against Iraq.
Matthew Levitt, a leading scholar on Hezbollah from the Washington Institute, said that "Hezbollah's recruitment and radicalization of youth through its Mahdi Scouts is long documented," other experts talking to Fox News Digital concurred.
"Hezbollah has boy scouts, and they have been taught jihad, and it is a well-known thing in Lebanon," Mideast expert Walid Phares told Fox News Digital.
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The Lebanon expert said they could be termed "children jihadists" who are preparing to become full Hezbollah fighters. Phares said they mostly assign them [the children of Hezbollah fighters] to spying and transporting ammunition. He argued if the scouts are getting funding from a ministry or national boy scouts association in Lebanon, they should be sanctioned if they have the evidence.
Multiple Fox News Digital Emails and phone calls to the World Organization of the Scouting Movement (WOSM) were not immediately returned. The U.S. branch of WOSM referred Fox News Digital to WOSM, which is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A Hezbollah expert from the Israel Alma Research and Education Center, Sarit Zehavi, called for action against the exploitation of children by the terror group.
"The only way to bring a change is to designate all of these allegedly civilian activities of Hezbollah and close the movement of its scouts, and enable the Shiites of Lebanon to have a different source of services, whether it is educational, formal or informal, which will be part of the Lebanese state, and not part of Hezbollah. The loyalty will be to the Lebanese state and not to Khomeini and the Islamic Republic."
She added, "This is only something Lebanon can do with a lot of international pressure, of course, led by the United States."
An Israeli diplomat, Tammy Rahamimoff-Honig, posted on X: "Hezbollah sacrifices Lebanese children to further the ambitions of the Iranian regime. This isn’t ‘resistance’. It’s child abuse."
Lebanon’s Ambassador to the U.S. declined to provide comment for this article.