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Russell Henley goes unconscious at Colonial, Eric Cole's continuous sting, and Joaquin Niemann flips in Korea
Sunday at the Charles Schwab Challenge was a bit sleepy, but then Russell Henley woke up in a rather aggressive mood. The 37-year-old flipped a switch down the stretch in Fort Worth to earn the sixth PGA Tour win of his career and pass quite a career milestone in the process.
Where there is a winner, there are also many losers, and for Eric Cole, he's essentially turned into the face of the latter group since earning his spot on the PGA Tour in 2023. His streak of not having the breaks fall his way earned another notch this week, but it's not all bad for the former PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.
On the other side of the planet, Joaquin Niemann found the LIV Golf winner's circle yet again in South Korea. He's somewhat sneakily benefited the most from leaving the PGA Tour, and all he's missing now is to show any semblance of a pulse at a major championship.
This is Par Talk, a weekly read to get you caught up on all the happenings that took place in professional golf that you need to know. You can follow Mark on X @itismarkharris and email him at mark.harris@outkick.com.
The theme throughout the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge on Sunday was that none of the half dozen or so players with a chance to win it wanted to go out and take it. But then, Russell Henley volunteered to do so when he stepped to the 16th tee while trailing by three shots.
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Down three with three to play makes the approach straightforward. Extremely difficult, but straightforward, and Henley went out and executed by closing his round out with three consecutive birdies to earn a spot in a playoff with Eric Cole.
Henley knocked his tee shot on the par-3 16th hole to 15 feet and drained the birdie putt to officially grab hold of the momentum. He hit his approach shot into the par-4 17th to 15 feet and his final approach on the par-4 18th to just outside the same range.
For a player who has earned a bit of a reputation for lacking aggression down the stretch, the former Georgia Bulldog certainly had plenty of it on Sunday afternoon.
As for the playoff, it didn't exactly come as a surprise that all Henley needed was one hole to finish the job against Cole. A driver and a wedge inside of five feet, the job was done, and Henley was hugging his three children and his wife as a PGA Tour winner for the first time in 14 months.
In recent years, Henley has become a player who clearly enjoys difficult tests, and winning at Colonial with a score of just 12-under checks that box.
With his victory in Fort Worth, Henley passed the career earnings mark of $50 million. Notable players he's surpassed on the career earnings list are Ernie Els, Bubba Watson, Tommy Fleetwood, Tony Finau and Luke Donald.
He may be the most unsuspecting $50 million winner in PGA Tour history, which is probably exactly the way he wants it.
Eric Cole is a unique player. He's 37 years old, is a journeyman in professional golf, has won a dozen times on mini tours, yet remains winless on the PGA Tour despite earning Rookie of the Year honors in 2023.
With that resume as a guy nearing 40, he's earned the reputation of being a perennial loser, and while he's not a winner, the criticism he receives feels a bit harsh.
Cole is in the middle of just his fourth season on the PGA Tour, and this past week's Charles Schwab Challenge marked his 120th start on Tour. In that time, he's made 84 cuts, finished runner-up three times, has 41 Top 25 finishes and has earned $13.5 million.
It's safe to assume he'd trade in a couple million bucks to turn one of his second-place finishes into a victory, but it's not as if Cole is living in some sort of endless, unsuccessful hellscape inside the ropes.
Sunday's playoff loss to Henley was the second time in his young-ish Tour career that he's had to witness his opponent birdie the first extra hole to slam the door shut. Chris Kirk gave him the same treatment at the 2023 Honda Classic.
Cole didn't have his best stuff on Sunday, hitting just 10 greens in regulation, but still carded an even-par round of 70 to give himself a chance to earn his first win on Tour. He's more aware than anyone out there that even-par rounds on Sunday very rarely get the job done, and certainly understands he got beat by a guy who simply got scorching hot down the stretch.
It won't make the sting hurt less, but that's golf sometimes.
LIV Golf, or at least this version of LIV Golf, may not exist in just a few months, and out of all the players on the circuit, Joaquin Niemann may be the most upset about it.
The Chilean beat Talor Gooch in a playoff to win LIV Korea over the weekend for his eighth individual title since joining the circuit in 2022. Those eight titles are two more than any other LIV player, and while he's not the first, second, or maybe even fifth player fans think of when it comes to LIV, he certainly should be.
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The loudest LIV critics out there will try claiming that Niemann's eight wins aren't noteworthy, but winning professional golf tournaments, regardless of the fact that they are no-cut events, is not easy. Doing so eight times in less than five years is wildly impressive.
Maybe the scariest, and definitely most alarming fact about Niemann, is that he's still just 27 years old. If (when) LIV does officially go belly up, Niemann's next move will be among the most intriguing to follow.
As a two-time winner on the PGA Tour and former 15th-ranked player on the planet, there is no denying he has the game to make serious noise on the game's biggest stages, but has shockingly failed to do so throughout his entire career.
In his 28 major championship starts, he's finished inside the top 10 only once, which was a T-8 at the 2025 PGA Championship. The sample size is large, the results are very poor, but he still has all the time in the world on his side, and what he does with it over the next decade will be an interesting watch.
Woman tests fate by getting too close to a massive bison, faceplants while running away
A woman learned the hard way that messing with nature is a very bad idea.
Viral videos of people testing fate with wild animals are right near the top of the list of the best content online.
Nature has plenty of uplifting moments, but it's also full of people doing stuff so stupid that it's honestly mind-boggling.
Well, buckle up because we have a real doozy today.
HORRIFIED TOURISTS WATCH AS BISON BOILS TO DEATH IN YELLOWSTONE HOT SPRING
The popular Instagram page @touronsofnationalparks is known for spotlighting the foolishness of people in national parks.
The page recently posted a video that needs to be seen in order to be believed. A woman decided it was a wise idea to get close to a massive bison in Yellowstone National Park.
How do we think that worked out for her?
BEAR ATTACK IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK LEAVES 2 HIKERS INJURED
Spoiler: not well.
She face planted while attempting to run away.
Check out the absolutely shocking video below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
People were quick to roast the woman in the comments. One wrote, "Help me Ranger Obi Wan, you’re my only hope."
Another added, "Survival skills of a French fry."
A third wrote, "Even the buffalo is confused."
Here's some free advice for everyone when it comes to dealing with wild animals. Stay a safe distance away, especially when dealing with an animal that can easily weigh north of 800 pounds. Yet, I know that advice will be ignored, and the content will keep flowing. Wouldn't have it any other way. Let me know your thoughts on the video at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
Fourth US drug boat strike in a week kills more 'narco-terrorists'
The U.S. military conducted a deadly strike against a vessel in the Pacific on Saturday, killing several alleged "narco-terrorists," according to U.S. Southern Command.
That attack, which killed three men, was one of four such military strikes announced by SOUTHCOM last week.
"On May 30, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed," the post on X noted.
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A strike on Friday killed three men, while a strike on Wednesday killed two, SOUTHCOM reported.
A strike on Tuesday killed one person but others survived: "One male narco-terrorist was killed during this action, and there were two survivors. Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified the U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors," SOUTHCOM noted in a post on X.
The U.S. conducted what it characterized as "self-defense strikes" against Iran over the weekend.
"U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran and Qeshm Island this weekend. The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters. U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters," according to a press release.
"No American service members were harmed. CENTCOM will continue to protect U.S. assets and interests in response to unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire," the release added.
US MILITARY ATTACKS IRAN IN 'SELF-DEFENSE STRIKES' OVER WEEKEND
CENTCOM noted in a Monday post on X, "Last night at 11 p.m. ET, U.S. forces successfully intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces based in Kuwait. These missiles were immediately defeated and no American personnel were harmed. U.S. Central Command remains vigilant and will continue to protect our forces from Iranian aggression while supporting the ongoing ceasefire."
Rising pop culture star Rachel Pizzolato concludes massive May at Miami Swim Week, Ric Flair's health & MEAT
The sun is shining bright, Monday Screencaps is dialed in, the birds are chirping away, summer is in the air, a skunk unloaded in the early morning hours (thankfully not on my dogs) and it's officially June 2026. Guys, let's face it, this is going to be a massive month for the United States and the world.
We have the World Cup, America 250, Trump's birthday UFC event, there's an intriguing NBA Finals (if you're into that sort of thing), the NHL Finals are ready to roll and there's even that Great American Fair thing on the National Mall where Vanilla Ice will take the stage.
Add in amazing weather, flowers blooming, long patio nights, my annual five-day golf trip, and you have all the ingredients for an action-packed month.
Before we get June rolling, let's stop and appreciate the month that our new favorite pop culture star, Rachel Pizzolato just completed over the weekend. I've been telling Screencaps readers about Rachel for years. Earlier this month, I wrote about how she had a test shoot with Victoria's Secret and how that would be the perfect hire as a counterattack to Sydney Sweeney and her SYRN lingerie company.
Over the weekend, Rachel completed her huge May in Miami dominating Swim Week.
How'd she celebrate? By breaking out a cartwheel right on the runway. That's something you don't see over at the SI Swimsuit show. That's the power of Pizzolato.
If you're running an America 250 event, get this woman on your event list NOW. She's an absolute party. She's always smiling. Always laughing. This is the demeanor the United States needs more of. More Pizzolato, NOW!
• Moving along...what did I do this weekend in Ohio? With the help of Screencaps Jr., I filled up a 12-yard dumpster with a play set, tree limbs, an old pool toy bin, 2X4s, dead arborvitae trees, etc., etc. When I tell you guys it was a total yard renovation weekend, I'm not lying. It was insane. I'm talking 10 hours on Saturday, and another 10 on Sunday, but now, we should be set.
The best purchase I made all weekend had to be the Ryobi battery-powered reciprocating saw. It tore apart the wood play set in about 30 minutes. That pressure treated lumber cut like butter. Laugh all you want at me buying Ryobi. I don't care.
You know what else was amazing this weekend? Mrs. Screencaps' drip irrigation system not only turning on correctly, but only having one spot where either a chipmunk or rabbit chewed through a line. ONE repair job. Incredible.
– I just saw this email from Reagan B. for Homebrew Bill who is looking to get into the pruner game: Bill, since you already have ryobi batteries, you may want to check out their one handed reciprocating saw. I can't speak specifically to theirs, as my battery system is DeWalt. I mainly use mine for other purposes, but it has been my go to for tree limbs since I got it.
Because it is one handed, it allows you to hold the limb with the other providing more control. 3" and under and it goes through them in just a couple of seconds. 4" and above and I'm grabbing a chain or polesaw. The blades are cheap and unlike chains (the small one handed ones included) you don't have to be scared of the dirt. I used it to cut a root a couple inches below the surface that would have destroyed a chain.
Kinsey: Just so people don't accuse me of stealing Reagan's thunder, he sent in this reciprocating saw advice Sunday night at 11:27. I'm telling you guys, for the money, that Ryobi reciprocating saw is a steal. #notsponsored
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• I didn't watch much television this weekend, but I did catch this home run trot down in Georgia that had the Internet all fired up. Here's my only problem with this exotic trot: The timing.
Georgia was down 1-0 in the bottom of the 6th to Liberty when the guy decides to go all Savannah Bananas on the Flames. That's a nice Liberty team, but that's also the No. 3 ranked Georgia Bulldogs. You're actually supposed to pound Liberty.
Even Screencaps reader Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston who celebrates everything travel ball, where this nonsense develops at an early age, says the hitter went too far. This reaction out of the travel ball hardo actually surprised me.
– X Canuk writes: I told you I was going to write about my views on the moral decline of society and its impact. We have strayed mightily from the values you espouse and your readers hold dear! You wrote recently "This column is all about looking at the absurdities of the times we live in and asking how we can make things better. . . . I'm asking for some sanity in this world we live in."
I have been pondering this for a while now and it all started when I was talking to my neighbor and he was asking why we have all these cameras along the public thoroughfares and intersections . . . "government intrusion" he stated. My response was simple, we are no longer ethical and moral. Ethics are a societal system like "Do unto others, as you would have done unto you." Increasingly, we don't have a social construct anymore, it is about me, what I can get, to heck with the common good (like buying up all the toilet paper during COVID?). Morals, on the other hand are individual and in my opinion, moral relativism has become the norm. What's good for you, is good for you, what's good for me, is good for me . . . don't judge.
The problem is, you cannot shoot your neighbor because his cat does its business in your flower bed, as justified as you may be! Hence, government needs to step in with laws, regulations and controls. Regulating morality becomes the norm and is futile when trying to regulate each individual, business, community group in a society. Of course, with more rules comes the need for policing to ensure the rules are followed. More patrols, cameras, inspections . . . you get the idea. When we put the individual ahead of the common good, we are doomed.
Relative moralism is a slippery slope because there is no fundamental belief by all in something, an absolute truth. "Don't judge!" is the decree. Ridiculous. What this column inspires and its readers desire is to get back to the days where people were good citizens, caring for one another, being self-aware, neighborly, doing unto others . . . a nicely mowed lawn. Acting civilized, working hard, reflecting on our own actions, owning mistakes, having shame, trying to be better! Today, it seems its about lie, cheat, steal, get what's mine. People are shameless. Now we need proof in court, video evidence to combat lies to prove a person is guilty. Why don't people declare they are guilty when they are caught red-handed in a crime? Charlie's Kirk's shooter and the United Healthcare CEO shooter stated "not guilty" when asked. Why are we forced to waste public resources?
So, we face a moral decline. Unwanted children fill our group homes, affairs/divorce are rampant, court dockets are filled with the guilty, restaurants are trashed, air/road rage incidents are common, kids lose their innocent childhood years, murder is justified, fights breaking out at little league, people don't want to work for what they have, have no pride in themselves, young men are aimless, have few friends, women abhor the word "homemaker," we want instant gratification of any need. Try reading Romans 1, verse 18 to the end of that chapter to see how what was written 2,000 years ago, reads like today. It is uncanny.
But, there is hope. What this column/readers desire . . . let's get back to the basics. Start with what the founders of this country believed, a common sense of ethics from some agreed upon source. They generally believed the bible, but if not that, then? Each one of us needs to be accountable, reflective as individuals and do right! Be better, take the high ground, be respectful, obey the laws, help your neighbor. If individuals are self-governed and do the right thing, less laws and cameras are needed. Society functions so much better and at much less cost.
Thanks to you and your team for making us think, igniting self-governance in all of us as we try to make sense of it all. My wish is this column ignites a nationwide awakening. We all need to keep up the good fight, it is worthy of a country 250 years old!
Kinsey: I'm happy that X-Canuck keyed in on the basics of lawn maintenance and taking care of property. I'm convinced that if you don't start with the basics of taking pride in your own property, there's a good chance you might have a problem making society a better place. That doesn't mean you have to have an Instagram property.
I could go on and on, but I'll let others have their say.
– Mark in Nashville emails: It will be interesting to see what a private equity firm will do with the Hut. They will certainly look to improve profitability, which can be anything from cutting costs within the operating system to opening new stores in strategic markets. If they read Screencaps, they will know exactly what to do! Take care.
– Jeff E. observes: Speaking of weird toothbrush usage…Just watched a dude set his toothbrush on the bathroom counter ine one of the bathrooms at the San Antonio airport. He put toothpaste on the toothbrush - as it sat on the counter - then put toothpaste away and picked up the toothbrush - that had been lying flat on bathroom counter at an airport bathroom - and brushed his teeth with it. Is that gross? I think it’s gross.
Sheesh - I have been spending way too much time is airports. For the record: you are not just a journalist. You are above that. You are a judge of current events and the behaviors of humanity - a dispenser of advice - an advisor on getting your s--t together - an encourager of keeping your s--t together and stepping it up to make the world better - a town cryer - a bearer of real political correctness, and a man of courage in seeking and speaking the truth.
Remember - if you’re making everyone happy - you’re not doing it right. Gotta go - getting ready for takeoff.
– Jeff D.'s advice: During my youth baseball coaching career one of the saddest points was seeing the middle school malaise. Kids who used to run to the field excited to play, suddenly started loafing to the field wearing their crocs with their heads buried in their phones. While frustrating, it is just a part of their growth. My advice, find a gimmick to get them motivated.
One coach back in the day would keep an ice cold Orange Crush and give it to the player who crushed the ball that day. On a warm day get a tarp and run a hose to help them learn to dive, slide. Create a dirt bag of the game, player who got the dirtiest gets a Prime or something.The good news is this is phase and when they start getting a little more testosterone, they will turn into raging animals (this requires different coaching).
Kinsey: We're back at it tonight. It's a new month. It's time to turn the page.
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And that is it. I'm running late on a Monday morning. Go have an incredible day. Let's have a great June 2026.
Housing First is a disaster. I saw Sacramento's homeless chaos firsthand
America’s homelessness crisis is routinely framed as a housing crisis.
It is not.
It is a crisis born from the collapse of accountability at every level of the system. Nowhere are the consequences of that collapse more visible than in California — and especially in its capital city, Sacramento.
In 2016, California became the only state in the nation to formally adopt the federal government’s Housing First mandate as its sole taxpayer-funded approach to homelessness, directing billions in state and federal dollars toward subsidized-for-life apartments with no accountability for sobriety, treatment, or work — ever.
WHY BLUE STATE POLICIES ARE CAUSING EVEN MORE HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA
Sacramento County followed in 2017, embracing the housing-only model, despite repeated warnings from frontline providers that housing alone would never adequately address the addiction, mental illness, trauma or behavioral health challenges that so often accompany homelessness.
Those warnings proved tragically accurate.
Under this mandate, homelessness rose nearly 35% nationally. In California, it surged 40%. In Sacramento County, the homeless population more than doubled.
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But even more alarming than the numbers was what society increasingly learned to tolerate: human deterioration, environmental destruction, exploding encampments and escalating public disorder, all while accountability and expectations were systematically stripped from the system itself.
That’s because the problem was never simply homelessness, and the solution was never simply apartments.
Waterways, parks and sidewalks did not become wastelands because of a lack of housing. They were devastated by a policy framework that systematically removed recovery, restoration and accountability from the center of homelessness policy.
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What followed was entirely predictable: tens of thousands of needles and shopping carts strewn across rivers, canals and public spaces as encampments became government-sanctioned waiting rooms for permanent housing that often never comes.
As vulnerable human beings are left idle for years without treatment or purpose, social decay takes root — and what should shock the public conscience becomes normalized.
This is what we saw in Sacramento last week, as a colleague and I spent one day there working with the River City Waterway Alliance — a volunteer group made up largely of retirees who have quietly become one of the last lines of defense protecting Sacramento’s waterways from environmental collapse. We spent another day working with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s HOT Team, which removed an estimated 5,000 pounds of waste from a canal that the team had fully cleared just one month earlier.
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One conclusion became impossible to escape: America’s homelessness crisis is, at its core, a crisis of zero accountability — and Sacramento is the telltale sign of what happens when accountability collapses, ideology replaces outcomes, and leaders refuse to confront the consequences of their own policies.
Realities in Sacramento alone paint a staggering picture:
Over the past three years, Alliance volunteers removed nearly 4 million pounds of waste from Sacramento waterways — including 29,000 needles, 19,000 shopping carts and more than 70,000 batteries.
CALIFORNIA IS BROKE, BUT IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR THE REST OF US
Meanwhile, the death rate among the homeless population more than doubled over that same period.
In one year, Sacramento County’s Sheriff’s HOT Team visited nearly 4,600 camps, closed over 1,300 of them, and cleared 3 million pounds of trash from homeless encampments.
Yet as volunteers and law enforcement struggle to contain the fallout, Sacramento’s homeless population grew by another 13% last year alone — an additional 1,000 individuals — further compounding a crisis the region was already failing to keep pace with.
The deterioration is accelerating far faster than it can be contained, and the sheer scale of the destruction is almost impossible to comprehend unless you witness it firsthand.
But most heartbreaking of all was our time walking Sacramento’s streets, where we saw human beings visibly deteriorate physically, mentally and spiritually while passersby barely looked up — no shock, no outrage, no gasp. In Sacramento, this level of suffering and societal breakdown is now tolerated.
Yet none of this was inevitable.
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For years, volunteers with the River City Waterway Alliance begged local and state leaders to confront the accelerating environmental destruction unfolding across Sacramento’s waterways. At the very same time, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation that would have created a sober living housing set-aside — despite pleas from individuals struggling with addiction, frontline providers and mayors across California who warned the state desperately needed more recovery-focused options within its homelessness system.
To their credit, the city and county are now responding. But repeated pleas to the governor, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Wildlife Conservation Board, and even the Sacramento chapter of the Sierra Club — organizations with real power and publicly stated missions tied directly to these issues — were met with silence.
Crickets.
At the very same time, the Sheriff’s HOT Team, which is actively containing the destruction, now faces the chopping block as county leaders grapple with a $100 million budget deficit.
That tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the current system and the elected officials leading it.
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Today, Sacramento stands as a warning to the rest of the nation about what happens when accountability is stripped away, when leaders refuse to confront the consequences of their own failed policies, and when voters continue returning those same leaders to power even as human suffering, environmental destruction, public disorder and societal collapse accelerate in plain sight.
That is the real crisis. Not simply homelessness. Not simply housing.
It’s the collapse of accountability itself.
Country star Riley Green nearly dove into the crowd after a fan split his ear open during a performance
Riley Green described a tense moment on stage during one of his concerts in a recent interview with Billboard.
When speaking with the outlet, the 37-year-old country music star recalled the moment a fan threw his cell phone at him while he was performing in Melbourne, Australia.
"Initially, there was probably a moment where I thought about diving into the crowd and I reeled that back a little bit," he said. "There’s people in the venue that paid good money to come see me play and it seems pretty childish for me to let one person ruin it for everybody."
The incident led him to get five stitches on his earlobe, but he continued on with the show, noting, "I got to be honest: I looked pretty cool with blood running down my neck singing ‘I Wish Grandpas Never Died.’"
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Green is scheduled to perform at the Rock the Country festival in celebration of the country's 250th anniversary of independence. The festival is headlined by Kid Rock, an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump.
While some acts, including Carter Faith, Ludacris and Morgan Wade dropped out to avoid creating more division politically, Green was not deterred.
"The simplest way I can put it is if somebody calls me and wants me to come play a festival and financially it makes sense, then I’m probably going to go do it. I don’t ask a lot of questions beyond that," he told Billboard. "Rock the Country sounds like a fun festival. I don’t see any benefit in me making anything political. I think people go to concerts to try to get away from their everyday problems and enjoy country music. My job is to entertain them."
The "In Love by Now" singer had his big break when he released his hit single, "There Was This Girl," and found even greater success after the release of his debut album, "Different 'Round Here," in 2019.
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He has since released two more albums and has collaborated with the biggest names in country music including, Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett and Ella Langley. His song with Langley, "You Look Like You Love Me," boosted his popularity and earned him a CMA Award win.
"I didn't think it was a hit because I thought talking verses were way too traditional to work, but I thought, 'Well, it'd be cool to have a song that we could do together on the road,'" he said on "The Zach Sang Show" in September 2025.
He later added: "So I just wrote a second verse for it and we recorded it and you know it I thought it was fun. I thought it was something that kind of stayed in your head a little bit but again just goes to show you I don't know because I had no idea it would be the big hit that it was."
Earlier this month, Green announced he would officially be joining "The Voice" as a coach in its upcoming 30th season in an Instagram post featuring him sitting in the iconic judges chair.
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"I guess y’all can start calling me coach… see ya this fall," he captioned the post.
Fans couldn't contain their excitement over the announcement, with one writing, "Guess I’ll be watching the voice now," in the comments section, and another adding, "suddenly i’ll be watching this season of the voice."
Dale Jr reveals heartbreaking final text message from Kyle Busch, NASCAR gets a win & driver teases revenge
Whew. What a race. What a finish in Nashville!
Sure, it happened around midnight and we were all tucked in and tuckered out, but still ... it's Nashville. The best things usually don't happen around there until after midnight.
Feels like NASCAR needed a moment like that in the waning laps Sunday night. A restart with four to go. Denny Hamlin, Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe beating and banging all the way to the checkers. Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the booth narrating the whole thing. A Kyle Busch bow at the end from Hamlin, who is now one of the last remaining members of the "old guard" in the garage.
After a really rough 10 days, NASCAR needed a win. They got it at Nashville. We'll get into it, obviously.
What else? We'll unfortunately stay on the Kyle Busch beat today, because we have some new updates since we last spoke.
We'll also get to Dale Jr.'s last conversation with Busch and how it would've potentially blown minds across the sport, and did Austin Dillon intentionally wreck Brad Keselowski at Nashville?
The footage ain't great, but I'm not sure. You'll see. We'll figure it out together.
Four tires, enough fuel to get us to Michigan, and maybe an ice-cold beer for Brad and Austin on the way out of town ... Monday Morning Pit-Stop — the "NASCAR finally got a win" edition — is live!
Like I said in the opening, NASCAR needed something to go right last night. Anything. Just a break.
The Kyle Busch death has been hanging — and will continue hanging — over this sport for well over a week now. It's just been dark cloud after dark cloud after dark cloud.
And, at the same time, there have been literal dark clouds everywhere they've went! Last weekend's Coke 600 was a washout from start to finish. They squeezed in just enough miles to make the race official. It was brutal.
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This weekend's trip to Nashville wasn't looking great, either. Friday and Saturday were absolute slogs. Rain. Rain. And, of course, more rain.
That's what tends to happen during these May/June/July/August races, you know. It rains during these months in the good 'ol US of A. Has for as long as I can remember.
Just one of them deals, as DW would say.
KYLE BUSCH TEXTED NASCAR CEO TWO DAYS BEFORE DEATH WITH SPECIFIC REQUEST, AND IT WAS PERFECT
So THIS finish late last night (or was it early this morning?) was very much needed for a beaten and battered racing series still trying to dig out of this awful hole:
Denny, for those who weren't locked in for the green flag, was the polesitter last night for about 10 seconds before he jumped the start of the race and was sent to the back by NASCAR.
How does the polesitter ... jump the start? Don't they control the start? That's a new one.
Anyway, he spent the first half of the race in the back, finally worked his way back towards the front at the halfway mark, and was clearly the car to beat at the end. Not a bad look for Joe Gibbs Racing, either, when all three guys are up there fighting for the win on the final lap.
And then Denny gave us the Kyle Busch bow? I'm not sure I want everyone in the garage doing that the rest of the year because at some point it'll lose its luster. But Denny Hamlin is absolutely one of the very few who can pull it off. He has free rein to do whatever he wants, not that anyone cares what I say.
Nor should they!
As for Kyle ... again, I don't want to keep doing this every week, but I have to talk about Rowdy a bit before we get back to Nashville.
Since we last spoke, his death certificate became public information, which feels odd to me. Don't love that. But, it's out there, and it does offer some insight to his final hours.
Again, I'm not sure we need that insight, but we have it, so I'm passing it along:
Look, this was just a really bad series of events. I know that's putting it in overly simple terms, but it's what it seems like to me. This was the perfect storm in the worst possible way.
Officials called Busch's death a "chain of events." He was suffering from bacterial pneumonia for "days to weeks" before things got really bad on that fateful Wednesday morning.
It turned into sepsis, and Busch later died.
We knew Kyle was sick for a while leading up to the week he died. He needed medical attention after the race at Watkins Glen, and was coughing after winning at Dover the week before he died.
Fans unearthed that clip over the weekend, and it's a tough watch. It's all a tough watch right now, which is why Denny's win — and the show it gave us at the end — was so important.
OK, a couple more on the way out. First up? Dale Jr., who continues to be just excellent in the Prime broadcast booth, spoke to Kyle Busch mere days before his death and the two were cooking up something special for NASCAR fans:
"He's texting me and he was like, 'What scheme are we going to run?' I said, 'You can run any scheme that you want. We can run 51 or whatever you'd rather have him say.' He literally said, 'The Dale Jr. 8.'
"And he's giving my head an exploding emoji. And then he says, 'Race fans.'"
So, Kyle was going to run the Dale Jr. 8 scheme during a Cars Tour race this summer. Goodness gracious. Imagine telling that to NASCAR fans 15 years ago? Imagine telling it to Dale Jr. fans 15 years ago?!
These two didn't get along great for a long period after Kyle wrecked Junior at Richmond. That's probably putting it mildly.
We went from that, to Kyle Busch driving Dale's late model in the Cars tour. Shows you how much respect Kyle had earned in the Cup garage.
OK, one more quickie on the way out ... and it has to do with the actual race last night! I know. Stunning.
What do we think, class? Did Austin Dillon intentionally punt Brad Keselowski here?
I don't believe we heard from Austin Dillon last night, but I'm gonna assume he's going to say he did NOT wreck Brad on purpose there.
Brad, naturally, doesn't see it that way, and then teases some revenge.
"So, turnabout is fair play."
Love that. We THRIVE on revenge in this class. We need it like we need oxygen. Go get 'em, Brad!
PS: I'm in Junior's camp on this one. I don't think Austin wrecked Brad intentionally. If anything, he should've been pissed at Chris Buescher, not Brad. I know the video doesn't look great, but it just seems odd to me.
Then again, those two haven't historically gotten along, so perhaps Austin did punt him into next week for no apparent reason.
Either way, it's a win-win for us!
Let me know: Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.
OK ... that's all I have for today. I'll see y'all at Michigan. Good weekend for NASCAR. They needed it.
Let's try to keep that up this week.
Trump flips script on left, maneuvers to use foreign influence law against the them
President Donald Trump is turning foreign-influence laws that once ensnared figures in his own orbit toward left-wing activist networks accused of benefiting from overseas money and support.
Once seldom enforced criminally, FARA became a more prominent tool at the DOJ after 2016, including in cases involving several figures in Trump’s orbit as well as some prominent Democrats. Now, legal experts say that FARA and other laws dealing with foreign influence are emerging as a potential weapon in Trump's campaign against left-wing activist networks.
"Unfortunately, it seems clear that the Biden administration went overboard and tried to use FARA as a political weapon against allies and supporters of President Trump instead of concentrating on real national security threats and those acting on behalf of foreign governments and principals without disclosing it as required by the law," Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, told Fox News Digital.
FARA requires people acting in the United States on behalf of foreign governments or political parties to disclose their relationships, activities and funding to the Justice Department. While the law has been on the books for decades, criminal prosecutions related to it have become more common from 2016 onwards, engendering resentment among conservatives who feel they were unfairly targeted by the Justice Department.
"Prior to the Mueller gang and the deep state using it against Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, FARA was rarely, if ever used for criminal purposes," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Fox News Digital. "It was seen as a paperwork issue ... anti-Trump fanaticism turned it into a weapon to put people in jail."
FARA prosecutions were relatively rare prior to the first Trump administration, with only seven criminal cases being prosecuted between 1966 and 2015. In 2018 alone, however, the Department of Justice charged more than 20 individuals and entities with FARA violations.
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During the first Trump administration and the Biden administration, many of those targeted by the Department of Justice for undisclosed links to foreign governments were viewed as close allies of Trump.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s 2016 campaign chair and a long-time GOP consultant, for instance, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States in 2018 in connection with his activity as an unregistered foreign agent for Ukraine.
Michael Flynn separately came under scrutiny for his firm’s work tied to Turkish interests, while his criminal plea involved false statements to the FBI about conversations with Russia’s ambassador. Flynn’s business partner was convicted of acting as an undisclosed agent of Turkey, though the conviction was eventually overturned and the investigation was dropped by the Justice Department.
Conservatives were not exclusively targeted during the last two administrations, however.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and Linda Sun, a former Democratic staffer, all faced foreign influence investigations under the Biden administration.
The pattern of right-wing politicos getting caught up in alleged foreign influence schemes continued into the Biden administration, with Rudy Giuliani, GOP megadonor Stephen Wynn and Trump associate Tom Barrack all being investigated for foreign ties.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi wound down FARA enforcement upon taking office in 2025, narrowing prosecutions to activities resembling traditional espionage, citing the law's purported weaponization under President Joe Biden. Fitton characterized this as a "reversion to the norm."
In a departure from the prior two administrations, Spakovsky told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration is working to "implement a comprehensive national security strategy that integrates FARA as a tool," citing a national security memo issued by the president in 2025.
NSPM-7, the memo referenced by Spakovsky, is a Trump administration directive ordering federal agencies to investigate and disrupt alleged networks behind domestic terrorism and organized political violence. It specifically directs the Department of Justice to scrutinize foreign ties and investigate possible FARA violations in order to investigate advocacy groups, nonprofits, donors and activists linked to alleged political violence.
Some groups on the right and left have criticized the memo for potentially targeting constitutionally protected expression. The ACLU, for instance, argued that it could chill free speech since the document explicitly calls out "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity" as dangers to the United States.
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Spakovsky, however, argued that the memo simply implements changes that were recommended by career civil servants during the Obama administration.
"When looking at the directive, another important point on FARA is to go back to a very revealing report issued by DOJ's Inspector General in 2016 in which it criticized DOJ’s lack of enforcement of FARA, including during the Obama administration," he said. "It recommended that DOJ develop a comprehensive enforcement strategy that was integrated with DOJ’s overall national security efforts … This relatively new directive seems to be an effort to do exactly what the DOJ IG recommended ten years ago – implement a comprehensive national security strategy that integrates FARA as a tool."
Though FARA is seen by many as the obvious mechanism to address foreign influence, if it is indeed being exerted on American activists, some legal experts are skeptical about relying on it alone.
"FARA is a powerful tool. It's just a difficult tool to use," Jason Torchinsky, a partner at the law firm Holtzman Vogel, told Fox News Digital. "It is a powerful tool, but there are other tools they can use too."
Torchinsky pointed to the recent investigation into Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and Code PINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, initiated by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, as an example of this.
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"If these guys literally are shipping things to Cuba in violation of sanctions, that's pretty easy," he said. "You don't have to prove any intent … OFAC sanctions are just such an easy crime to prosecute, because it's like, you did X, I have evidence you did X, and it was prohibited … it's a really nice sort of cut and dry criminal case."
Trying to bring FARA charges into the mix, according to Torchinsky, could lead to unnecessary complications.
Torchinsky, who specializes in government ethics laws, noted that prosecuting violations of FARA often proves problematic as defendants can sometimes credibly claim their actions are protected by the First Amendment. Other options, he said, may be more attractive to prosecutors attempting to address foreign political influence.
Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Zack Smith, added that prosecutors need to prove that those accused of violating FARA knew they were breaking the law at the time of their conduct, which he called "a very high standard."
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"The IRS has tools that allow them to revoke the nonprofit status of nonprofits that are acting illegally," Torchinsky continued. "There's a concept in internal revenue law called the illegality doctrine. The idea is that you can’t set up and operate as a nonprofit, something that’s illegal."
Nonprofit organizations accused of providing material aid to foreign terrorist organizations, for instance, could be prosecuted by the administration without the Justice Department having to prove that they acted as unregistered foreign agents.
"Criminal statutes like wire fraud, bank fraud, those types of statutes could come into play, particularly if those carrying out these foreign influence operations are receiving cash or payments or some other type of compensation for taking part in these operations," Smith added.
Some, however, see FARA as an indispensable tool in fighting foreign influence.
"I look forward to a quiet life outside of politics. With a fire-pit and beehives," Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, posted to X on Wednesday. "Until then I am going to make it my mission to get the FARA office back up and running. The political divide in this country is a foreign op from multiple countries and it’s sad."
Torchinsky noted that the presidential national security memo laid out some laws other than FARA that the administration could use to target foreign-backed political agitators.
"You can go after these folks, particularly these entities that are engaged in violence," he said. "They've got conspiracy against rights, solicitation of a crime or violence, money laundering, funding terrorist acts or facilitating terrorism, arson offenses, RICO, and fraud against the United States."
"For example, organizing protests and violence at companies that are in the F-35 supply chain, like Palestinian groups are doing, is potentially a solicitation of acts of violence," Torchinsky added.
"Now, I suspect this is the beginning of a larger conversation over FARA, whether it needs to be revised, how it needs to be revised, what this regime will look like going forward to combat foreign influence in the United States," Smith, the Heritage fellow, said. "But fundamentally, there should be broad agreement that foreign influence, particularly foreign influence directed at influencing our elections, our political discourse, is very problematic. Appropriate action should be taken to combat it."
The Department of Justice, Treasury Department, and Code PINK did not respond to requests for comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
Giants working out multiple receivers including Odell Beckham Jr, while Eagles look to trade AJ Brown
With the first NFL game of the 2026 season 100 days away, at least two teams — the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants — are looking to make significant roster decisions with big-name wide receivers, and those moves involving A.J. Brown and Odell Beckham Jr. could come as early as Monday.
The Giants, who have been in contact with Beckham for over a month, and are expected to bring the receiver to their facility on Monday, a source confirmed to OutKick and Fox News Digital.
The Giants are also working out JuJu Smith-Schuster, Anthony Miller and Braxton Berrios on Monday. Smith-Schuster is familiar with the team's offense because he played under Giants offensive coordinator Matt Nagy in Kansas City last season.
Beckham, 33, wants to return to the team that drafted him in 2014 and has been working toward landing a contract offer and opportunity for weeks. Beckham even attended the team charity softball game over the weekend and was fully engaged with quarterback Jaxson Dart and other players.
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The Giants need receiver help after losing Gunner Olszewski for the season to what the team believes is an Achilles tear.
And while Beckham is not a special teams contributor like Olszewski was or Berrios would be, he is a favorite of coach John Harbaugh and does bring some insurance in that Malik Nabors hasn't proven he's fully ready to be on the field following ACL surgery in October and a clean-up procedure to remove scar tissue in April.
While the Giants are looking to add receiver help, the Eagles are now more financially able to move on from star receiver A.J. Brown.
That's because June 1 triggers salary cap mechanisms for allowing the team to trade the star receiver.
Those mechanisms that begin Monday allow Philadelphia to spread that dead cap weight of a trade across multiple seasons rather than having to absorb most of it in 2026, which the Eagles could not realistically manage. June 1 dramatically reduces the immediate cap hit and makes a trade much more manageable.
Before June 1, trading Brown would have forced the Eagles to carry a $43.4 million dead-money charge, making a deal financially impractical. That dead-money charge for 2026 shrinks to $16.3 million on Monday because it is now spread over multiple seasons.
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The Eagles have been engaging with multiple teams about a Brown trade since before the NFL Draft.
And the team that showed the most interest in Brown has consistently been the New England Patriots. But there's an issue:
The Eagles want a first-round pick in exchange for Brown.
The Patriots don't want to give up a 2027 first-round pick. And neither does anyone else, so far, according to multiple league sources.
So, while the Eagles are now financially less constrained from making a trade, they do not wish to conduct what they believe would be a fire sale for a very talented receiver. They want what club general manager Howie Rosen is satisfied is market value for a good player.
That begs the question why the Eagles are willing to part with a talented player at age 29 (later this month), while he is still in his top production years?
Well, everyone in the NFL knows that for much of the past year, there have been signs of frustration from Brown regarding his role in Philadelphia’s offense, particularly last season when the passing game took a back seat to the Eagles’ run-heavy approach centered around 2,000-yard rusher Saquon Barkley.
Brown has sometimes publicly and sometimes via cryptic social media posts expressed dissatisfaction with his role on the team and even with quarterback Jalen Hurts. Eagles coaches, teammates and sometimes even Brown himself have had to answer for the distraction of having a seemingly unsatisfied player on the roster despite his $32 million per year contract that makes him the NFL's seventh-highest-paid wide receiver.
The reason other teams, media and fans would not be surprised by this trade is Philadelphia has spent the offseason adding receiving depth and preparing for a future without Brown.
That future seems closer starting Monday morning.
James Comey '86 47' seashell case prosecutor suddenly steps down, assistant US attorney steps in
The federal prosecutor handling the Justice Department’s criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey over his "86 47" seashell Instagram post has stepped down, according to a new court filing.
A notice of substitution filed Friday in the Eastern District of North Carolina says Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Severo will replace Matthew Petracca "as counsel for the government."
The filing from U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Ellis Boyle requested that Petracca be removed from the court docket but did not explain the change. Boyle had hired the rookie prosecutor for the case months ago.
Comey is facing two federal charges and up to 10 years in prison for his sharing the Instagram post showing seashells arranged to read "86 47," potentially signaling would-be political assassins. Prosecutors have alleged the post amounted to "a serious expression of an intent to do harm" to President Donald Trump, the 47th president.
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The number "86" is a common restaurant term for getting rid of or stopping service of an item, but Trump and his prosecutors argue it is also well known to law enforcement as a mob term for assassination.
"Threatening the life of the President of the United States is a grave violation of our nation’s laws," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an April 28 statement at the time the two-count indictment for threatening the president and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce was announced.
"The grand jury returned an indictment alleging James Comey did just that, at a time when this country has witnessed violent incitement followed by deadly actions against President Trump and other elected officials," he added. "The temperature needs to be turned down, and anyone who dials it up and threatens the life of the President will be held accountable."
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Comey has denied any threatening intent, saying he viewed the image as a political statement and not a dog whistle for assassins.
"James Comey disgracefully encouraged a threat on President Trump’s life and posted it on Instagram for the world to see," FBI Director Kash Patel added in a statement. "As the former Director of the FBI, he knew full well the attention and consequences of making such a post. This FBI and our DOJ partners pursued a rigorous investigation that followed the facts – and now Mr. Comey will be held fully accountable for his actions."
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The case is being prosecuted in North Carolina, the location where the infamous seashells were photographed.
"No one is above the law in the Eastern District of North Carolina," Boyle wrote in a statement. "Our office regularly pursues threat cases including those against public officials. The Grand Jury examined the evidence in this case and found probable cause to indict Mr. Comey."
The change comes as the case heads toward an October trial after U.S. District Judge Louise Wood Flanagan granted Comey’s request for a delay.
NBC News first reported Petracca's departure from the Comey case and said he has also recently come off other criminal cases in the district. The network reported that Petracca had considered leaving the Justice Department altogether but decided against it after taking a week off, according to sources.
"If Comey is charged for the shell picture, it would face a monumental challenge under the First Amendment," constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley told Fox News in April. "In my view, the image itself is clearly protected speech. Absent some other unknown facts or elements, it would be unlikely to survive a threshold constitutional challenge."
Comey has portrayed the prosecution as politically motivated, and has said he will continue speaking out about what he views as threats to the rule of law.