Beau Bradley has made identity politics central to his campaign by displaying an “Abolish ICE” sticker in his bookstore window and stating that his goal is to be a voice for younger people. In his CVN interview, he also stated that he does not support the current senior tax exemption, suggesting there are simply too many old-timers in Haines.
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The question itself wasn’t directly about any public criticism Josh Hoover has faced this season. After Indiana’s 38-0 rout of Western Kentucky over the weekend, the Hoosiers’ starting quarterback rattled off the throws he felt he had missed, and a reporter wondered if having a quarterback who is willing to take ownership and acknowledge his mistakes makes a coach’s job easier. That’s when Curt Cignetti stepped in to defend him. “I think there is too much scrutiny of Josh Hoover right now,” Cignetti told reporters this week during a press conference. “Unfair scrutiny.” Cignetti was likely responding to some of the social media reaction surrounding his quarterback. No matter how good a team is — and Indiana is 3-0, having outscored its first three opponents 145-16 — there will always be fans and pundits nitpicking, comparing and looking for ways a team should be better. That’s the nature of sports. Win a national championship, and the future standards can become too high to meet. “Three years ago, nobody knew who Indiana’s quarterback was,” former Indiana coach and current Big Ten Network analyst Gerry DiNardo told me. “Now, not only do they know, they’re an expert about him.” Hoover transferred to Indiana from TCU in the offseason as one of the most coveted quarterbacks in the transfer portal. He presumably knew what he was getting into when he signed up to replace Fernando Mendoza, who had just led Indiana to its first national championship, won the Heisman Trophy and was selected No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft. It’s incredibly rare for the next man up to replicate everything his predecessor accomplished. Oklahoma came close under then-coach Lincoln Riley, when Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray won back-to-back Heisman Trophies, and Jalen Hurts followed with a Heisman finalist finish. But that kind of succession is the exception, not the rule. “I’d be surprised if Josh came there thinking that because Fernando won the Heisman, ‘That’s my next step,'” DiNardo said. “I think we’re too realistic to think that.” Cignetti’s willingness to push back on expectations and defend Hoover, though, stands out. His comments hit the news cycle quickly, and this became somewhat of a viral moment entering the fourth week of the season. “I always like to see when a coach comes to the defense of his players, because quarterbacks obviously deal with way too much credit and way too much blame,” Garrett Gilbert — who was supposed to be the next great quarterback at Texas following Vince Young and Colt McCoy — told me. “It was difficult for me during my time at Texas, not just being the guy who came after Colt, but just expectation in general is tough for a young kid to deal with.” As a freshman, Gilbert was famously thrust into the 2009 national championship game between Texas and Alabama after McCoy was injured on the fifth play. A former five-star recruit and the No. 1 quarterback prospect in Texas, Gilbert had appeared in 10 games that season. But stepping into that moment was an impossible task, and it turned into a long night for the Longhorns. Gilbert was named the starter the following season as a sophomore, but after struggling to win games, he eventually transferred to SMU, where he finished his college career before becoming a sixth-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. Gilbert was 19 when he followed McCoy, a Heisman finalist and Texas legend. Hoover is 23 and has years of starting experience as he leads Indiana into the post-Mendoza era — that’s the reality of college football in the transfer-portal world. But Hoover’s age and track record don’t necessarily make taking over for Mendoza any less daunting. Gilbert struggled with the attention. He read the local newspaper and said he checked ESPN after good games and bad ones to see what people were saying about him. He joked that, back then, Instagram was simply a place to look at pictures your friends posted. Now, it’s a meme-driven culture that can be unforgiving to anyone — let alone a college quarterback whose every mistake becomes public fodder. “I can’t imagine being a kid in today’s day and age and seeing and dealing with that stuff,” Gilbert said. When it comes to blocking out the noise, Gilbert will never forget a conversation he had with former SMU coach June Jones early in the 2012 season. It was Gilbert’s fourth game with the Mustangs, and he had thrown five interceptions in a 24-16 loss to TCU. The next day at practice, after the team finished wind sprints, Jones pulled Gilbert aside on the field. “I was thinking, ‘Oh, here we go again,’” Gilbert said. “But June said, ‘This is your team. You could throw 100 interceptions, and it’s still going to be your team. You’re our guy. So let it go and go play.’ “That was a very freeing moment for me that maybe I hadn’t experienced. Not that I didn’t feel like it was my team at Texas when I was the starting quarterback, but I think I put a lot of pressure on myself. And June said that to me, and this is 14 years ago now, and I’ll never forget it. And from that point on, I played well because he had given me the confidence.” Hoover’s situation isn’t the same, of course. He has completed more than 72% of his passes, thrown 10 touchdowns without an interception, and he has the second-best passer efficiency rating in the country. He faced backlash before the season even began after his former TCU coach, Sonny Dykes, publicly highlighted Hoover’s previous turnover rate. Cignetti came to Hoover’s defense then, noting that when Hoover arrived at Indiana, he met “his two new best friends: great defense and a really good run game.” “I think maybe there’s a chance that’s what happens behind closed doors every day at Indiana,” Gilbert said of Cignetti instilling belief in his players. “He’s a fiery individual, but it’s clear to me that he has his players’ backs whenever it matters.” Cignetti said he saw Hoover miss just one throw on the tape from Indiana’s game against Western Kentucky because “we did a bad job picking up the blitz at running back, and he had a guy in his face.” Other miscues were partly due to bad route running, and Cignetti said they had to hash some of that out as a staff. He concluded with: “I’m glad he’s our quarterback.” After the 2024 season, Mendoza didn’t arrive at Indiana from Cal as a superstar — but developed into one. During the Hoosiers’ historic 2025 run, he threw 41 touchdowns with six interceptions and had five games in which he threw more touchdowns than incompletions, including two College Football Playoff games. “He had his Heisman moment against Penn State, but before that, he was just a guy,” DiNardo said, referencing Mendoza’s memorable game-winning drive to keep the Hoosiers’ undefeated season intact. “I was there for camp, and he was great — a nice kid, a good interview and all that. But nobody was talking about him winning the Heisman Trophy. I mean, it’s insane.” Expecting Hoover to be Mendoza 2.0 is unreasonable. But he can still accomplish great things and win a lot of games. “I think the answer is probably as simple as be yourself,” Gilbert said when asked what kind of advice he might give Hoover or another player in a similar position. “Fernando is a perfect example of that. He became this lovable guy that his entire team respected and had so much success. And I think the reason he’s been able to do that is by being himself. “You go back to before me, Colt was stepping in, and how could he possibly be Vince Young? The answer is, he can’t. Being yourself and trusting what got you to that point can make such a big difference.”Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
Ashley Cooke is turning heads with her flirty new music video for “baby blues,” co-starring comedian and actor Matt Rife.
The clip debuted on Wednesday (Sept. 23), just days after the launch of Cooke’s baby blues world tour.
Directed by Josh Erb, the video opens with Cooke sitting poolside with friends as they soak up the sun. She quickly locks eyes with a poolside bartender, played by Rife, and the two struggle to keep their eyes off each other.
Their attraction becomes increasingly obvious as Rife begins putting his bartending duties aside to sneak glances at Cooke from across the pool. As the pool party winds down and the sun begins to set, Cooke makes her move and follows him into a nearby poolhouse.
Once inside, Rife picks Cooke up and sets her on the counter before the two share a kiss. However, their private moment doesn’t last long. Cooke’s friends eventually catch the pair in the act, putting an end to their flirtatious encounter and signaling that the party is officially over.
Cooke and Rife’s reunion in the music video comes after they previously shared the stage together. During CMA Fest earlier this year, Cooke invited Rife to join her at Billboard Country Live at Category 10 for a performance of “baby blues.” The moment continued one of Cooke’s fan-favorite traditions, as she often scans the crowd for someone with baby-blue eyes and brings them into the spotlight to sing the song’s final verse. The track has since become one of Cooke’s signature songs, earning a No. 1 spot on SiriusXM The Highway’s Hot 30 Countdown earlier this year.
The fan-favorite track appears on Cooke’s self-titled sophomore album, which was released in August. Earlier this month, the country star traveled to New York City to perform “baby blues” on Live with Kelly & Mark, where the song has already surpassed 63 million global streams. During the appearance, co-host Kelly Ripa fully embraced the song’s signature color, stepping out in a baby blue look and joking, “By the way, I’m on brand right?”
Ashley Cooke’s baby blues world tour picks back up tonight (9/24) at Irving Plaza in New York City. The 28-date tour is currently set to run through February 25, when Cooke will wrap the trek at Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium. Along the way, she’ll make stops at several well-known venues across the U.S. and U.K., including Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club on September 18, Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre on October 8, and London’s Koko on January 29.
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Milania Giudice is having quite a year, and the latest family drama is raising more than a few eyebrows.
The 20-year-old daughter of The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice shared — and quickly deleted — a video showing herself in a heated exchange with her mother and older sister, Gia Giudice.
Adding an especially bizarre element to the situation? Multiple police officers were apparently nearby.
The brief clip appears to have been filmed at an airport, though it’s unclear exactly where the family was headed or why law enforcement was present.
“This is what we do now,” Milania repeatedly says in the video.
Teresa responds by repeatedly telling her daughter, “I love you.”
Gia then appears to attempt to calm the situation, telling Milania, “Let her do what she wants to do.”
That apparently did not help.
“Shut the f–k up!” Milania shouted, seemingly at Teresa.
And that’s where the video ends.
Unfortunately for anyone hoping for additional context, Milania’s now-deleted Instagram Story does not explain what sparked the confrontation or why police officers were standing nearby.
Page Six reports that it’s also unclear whether Teresa or Gia contacted law enforcement. Neither Milania nor her family has publicly explained the circumstances surrounding the encounter.
Of course, the timing is noteworthy.
Milania was arrested in May and charged with one count of simple assault following a domestic dispute. During a subsequent court hearing, a judge alleged that she knowingly caused bodily injury to another person by striking the individual in the head with her fist.
Milania later acknowledged that she “was not in a good area” of her life when the incident occurred and said she needed to learn from what happened.
She has since enrolled in anger management classes, and her next court date is scheduled for September 29.
The young reality star has also endured a devastating loss this summer following the death of her best friend, Victoria Zardoya, in a July accident.
So, while the latest video is certainly raising questions, there is still plenty that viewers don’t know about what happened behind the scenes.
For now, all we have is a short clip of Milania, Teresa, and Gia arguing, with police officers standing nearby and absolutely no explanation for why any of it was happening.
And now the internet is left to wonder what exactly went down before Milania hit “delete.”
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This year, Zach Top has already checked off a few bucket list items and there’s still more to come. Back in April, he accomplished the impressive feat of getting invited to open for one of his musical heroes, George Strait, at AT&T Stadium in Texas. That night became even more memorable when he got the chance to hang out with the country legend backstage.
While co-hosting a weekend of Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton, Top admitted that getting to step on the stage and warm up the crowd for a legend like Strait was “amazing.”
“Got to hang out with him on his bus, drink a little tequila, and chat with him for a bit. We talked a lot about golf. We’re both frustrated golfers,” Top joked.
Even though he is becoming a successful artist in his own right and has already become a big name in the industry, the Washington native revealed he is still just like any fan and did his best to hide the fact that he was starstruck.
“Any time I get around guys like that, I gotta hold myself back from being a fan. I try to play it cool and have a normal conversation,” Top shared.
The soon-to-be 29-year-old has even more major opportunities and milestones on the horizon as he continues to build momentum in his career. For starters, his latest album, Ain’t In It For My Health was just nominated for CMA Album of the Year. He is vying for a win in the category alongside Ella Langley with Dandelion, Kacey Musgraves with Middle of Nowhere, Parker McCollum with his self-titled album and Luke Combs with The Way I Am.
Top explained how much this recognition means to him, noting that taking home the trophy would be a particularly exciting career achievement for him.
“Album and Entertainer are right up there. The album thing, having your whole body of work acknowledged, there’s something cool about that. If not the top one, it’s one of the ones I’d like to win.”
Less than a month before he gets dressed up for a night at The 60th Annual CMA Awards on Wednesday, November 18 at Bridgestone Arena, Zach Top will step inside the same venue and deliver his first-ever headline show in Nashville.
Top’s Cold Beer & Country Music Tour is set to wrap up on October 30 with a nearly sold-out stop in Music City.
“Very excited about that. Fun to wrap up the tour in Nashville. We’ve not headlined a show in Bridgestone yet. This will be our first time. We’ll have lots of friends and family,” he told Helton.
Once the major moments of 2026 wrap up, Top plans to slow things down by spending some time in the studio working on his next record and enjoying some time away from the road by spending plenty of his days spent duck hunting.
His time off will hopefully get him fueled up and ready to embark on more headline shows in 2027 as well as his first-ever headline set at Stagecoach.
“Super honored to do that. That’s a wild feeling,” he said of the impressive festival slot.
From getting to hang out with icons like George Strait to preparing to headline one of Nashville’s biggest stages and earning some major recognition along the way, Zach Top’s career continues to gain more and more momentum.
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If Week 1 brought everything we love about football, then Week 2 brought us the thing we dislike the most about the game: injuries. Three promising young quarterbacks suffered injuries that appeared to be season-altering the moment they happened in Week 2. The news on Caleb Williams since he suffered the hamstring injury in the Chicago Bears’ loss to the Minnesota Vikings has been promising, but Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels could be out for an extended period of time and New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart is done for the season. Of course, in the short term, the injuries mean that at least two of those teams will be playing backup quarterbacks. But there are also long-term concerns surrounding the Week 2 injuries, particularly with Daniels and Dart, as the futures of both the Commanders and Giants largely hinge on those respective players. So, we asked people around the NFL what they thought about those injuries and what future concerns they might have about Williams, Daniels and Dart. Here’s what we learned. Ralph Vacchiano: One NFL scout told me, “My heart sank” when Bears quarterback Caleb Williams went down with what looked like a serious hamstring injury on Sunday afternoon. And he added, “I couldn’t believe it” when, a few hours later, Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels went down with an elbow injury too. And when Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart was on the ground holding his injured knee, the scout texted me, “Holy s—! Another one? What is going on?” Good question. It was a weekend of carnage for young, talented NFL quarterbacks and a potentially devastating one for three teams–particularly the Commanders and Giants, who lost their franchise quarterbacks for the season. All three will put on a brave face and say they’re confident in their backups. But the truth is, they all know what they lost. “The days of Steve Young backing up Joe Montana are over,” the scout told me. “There just aren’t that many good quarterbacks anymore, and the ones that are good don’t last long on somebody’s bench. What you’re looking for in a backup nowadays is a guy who can keep you afloat for a couple of games, maybe a month. “But nobody wants to play most of the season with their second guy.” For proof, he pointed to the Giants and Commanders, who will now turn to Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota, respectively. They are both 32 years old, so theoretically still in their prime. And they also happened to be the first two picks of the 2015 draft. “They were stars,” the scout told me. “They had all the ability in the world. Everybody loved them. But it’s [11] years later now. They had their chance and showed they couldn’t do it — not on a consistent enough basis. With their ability, if anyone thought they could lead a team for a full season, they’d be a starter somewhere, believe me. “But they can’t do it.” So what’s the outlook for teams who have to play the rest of the way with their backup? “All they can do is hope,” the scout told me. “You slim down your offense. You lean on your running game. You coach them to just not make mistakes, if that’s even possible. But it’s a downgrade in both cases. And we all know you just can’t afford a downgrade at quarterback. This isn’t replacing a corner or a guard. The position is too important to not have your No. 1 guy.” Ralph Vacchiano: The Chicago Bears quarterback was one of the brightest emerging stars in the NFL before his painful hamstring injury knocked him out on Sunday. It’s still not clear how long Caleb Williams will be sidelined. But at least one scout thinks that, even without him, they’d be fine. “That’s really a running team anyway,” the scout told me. “Williams obviously adds a lot to that, but so much of it is Ben Johnson’s creative scheme. I’m not saying they’d go to the Super Bowl without Caleb. But I think they can ride those two running backs (D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai) to the playoffs behind that offensive line.” Another scout told me that he even had some faith in the Bears’ backup quarterbacks — either Tyson Bagent, who is recovering from a concussion, or Case Keenum. “I trust Ben Johnson more than most coaches to find what they do best and make them successful,” the scout told me. “He’s the one that made Jared Goff into a star in Detroit. He salvaged Caleb Williams after his rocky rookie season. I’m not saying [Bagent or Keenum] are Goff and Williams. They’re obviously not. “I’m just saying they’re in very good hands.” Eric D. Williams: A little over two years into his NFL career, Daniels has already missed time due to knee and hamstring injuries, and he’s also dislocated his left elbow twice. Daniels showed his full potential early, leading the Commanders to the NFC Championship Game and earning Offensive Rookie of the Year after being selected second overall by Washington in the 2024 draft. But since then, Daniels has struggled to stay on the field. With two years left on his rookie deal, Daniels is contract extension eligible at the end of this season. And with franchise quarterbacks making north of $55 million annually, Washington general manager Adams Peters will have a tough decision to make on how to handle Daniels’ contract demands moving forward. “The most conservative approach for them is to – even though the market will increase – wait until after Year 4, when he has proven that he can stay healthy and is indeed the future of the franchise at quarterback,” an NFL contract negotiator told me. “The key there is that they’d be willing to pay more after Year 4 (compared to the lower amount they would pay after Year 3) in exchange for getting more comfortable during Year 4 that he’s worth the investment. “A more aggressive approach would be for them to still extend him after this season at a top-tier QB contract value, but with contract structuring that mitigates the risk of them paying a bunch of money to a QB who can’t stay healthy.”The contract negotiator went on to say that, understanding Washington’s negotiation history, the Commanders will more likely take the conservative approach. Ralph Vacchiano: The Commanders were surely devastated when Jayden Daniels suffered a dislocated elbow on Sunday, just like the Giants were crestfallen when Jaxson Dart suffered an injured knee. But neither team could have been surprised. That’s because both young quarterbacks suffered through a list of injuries last season, too. Daniels suffered a knee sprain, a hamstring injury and a dislocated elbow last year that all kept him out of nine games last season, and that’s after playing through a rib fracture as a rookie. And Dart missed 2,5 games with a concussion, and ended up in the medical tent several times for hits to the head. All injuries are not the same, but there’s an axiom in the NFL that “hurt guys get hurt.” And that’s something both teams will have to consider as they ponder futures with quarterbacks who have gotten hurt a lot. “Look, you don’t give up on these guys,” an NFL executive told me. “They’re too talented for that. But you have to think about it. Both of them are going to want huge contract extensions over the next couple of years. How much do you want to invest? And maybe with them you have to be real sure about the rest of your quarterback room. Maybe upgrade your backup and make sure you have a young, developmental guy on your roster just in case.” “You probably just have to bite your lip and cross your fingers,” a scout told me. “There are probably 20 other teams that would take Daniels or Dart, even with the injury risk. All you can do is hope they stay healthy. “Also, this should warn both teams to heavily invest in their offensive line.”Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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After the Lindsay Clancy prosecution ended in a mistrial, the rogue juror spoke out.
Since then, mostly through intermediaries, he has continued.
In addition to sounding defensive over the way that other jurors characterized him, he has even seemed to imply that others behaved improperly.
Why were the Clancy jurors on their phones during the trial?
Rogue juror Michael Desronvil authorized Ray Marcel, of Fugitive TV, to speak on his behalf.
In the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, he did just that while speaking to NewsNation’s Brian Entin.
“Michael told me almost everybody had their phone on them,” Marcel reported.
“It wasn’t like they took their phones away and locked them away,” he added.
Traditionally, banning jury members from researching the case through the media or by speaking outside of court is sufficient. Most juries are not sequestered and most juries are trusted with their devices.
“I mean, there were jury members, which I’m not going to say names, that were posting on social media allegedly while deliberations were going on,” Marcel then alleged.
(Posting on social media is not necessarily a violation of jury ethics — unless it pertains to the case, or violates a judge’s instructions.)
Marcel admitted: “I don’t know if they were allowed their phones, but they weren’t taken away.”
It would likely be improper phone use for a juror to research the case, read social media opinions on laws or evidence related to the case, or “livetweet” (on any platform) the events of a trial.
However, when jurors are allowed to use their phones, it’s usually just fine for them to discuss dinner plans, post about what video games they’ve been enjoying lately, or post thirsty emojis under NSFW photos. You know, the usual.
I’ve gotta say, this guy doesn’t sound like an impartial juror just trying to do his civic duty 😐
— 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨🫗 (@mayerlingwaltz.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Why is jury phone usage during the Lindsay Clancy trial a topic?
The defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, filed a motion to investigate Desronvil’s alleged phone use during deliberations.
While Desronvil has apparently been advised that this works in his favor — because he is being “singled out” — it seems that Reddington suspects that Desronvil may have violated jury ethics.
Juror misconduct can range from a casual mention of a case to a partner all the way to accepting a bribe or altering the deliberations because they want a book deal one day.
Often, a juror might receive clarification or perhaps an admonishment from a judge. In some cases, some behavior amounts to criminal misconduct. Jurors might risk a charge of contempt of court.
It is unclear if Reddington believes that Desronvil committed some specific electronic violation, or simply hopes to check.
If any member of the jury violated the rights of the defendant to a fair and unbiased trial, that would be a big problem.
As for Desronvil’s apparent insinuation that other members of the jury used their phones … it’s unclear what violations he is implying.
Much of the internet discourse about the trial was manosphere types and the broader far right either disputing the existence of postpartum psychosis, using its existence to try to repeal women’s voting, or both.
At any rate, the mistrial is a mistrial. A charge of contempt, if necessary, will not change anything for Clancy or anyone else.
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