‘Nightcaps’ is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday–Friday on OutKick.com.Final Hump Day of July. Can you believe it?All 32 NFL teams have reported. We’ve already had at least one brawl in camp. Tua’s already hurt. Players are holding out. Players are “holding in” (figure that one out).It’s all happening, folks, and …The insufferable WNBA is again front and center.Credit where it’s due — they’re stealing headlines. Perhaps that’s the goal? I’m not sure it’s the best strategy given that cultish league becomes uglier and uglier with each passing day, but hey, bad PR is still PR.WNBA STAR SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM’S PLAYER EXCLUSIVE ADIDAS SHOE SELLS OUT IN LESS THAN AN HOUR ONLINE Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham continues to melt brains, this time out west! That’s right.For those of you who thought Seattle was full of crazies, you ain’t seen nothing yet!What else? I’ve got new Tony Romo bodycam footage from his OWI over the weekend, the Mets’ broadcasters being absolutely DISGUSTED by the Atlanta Braves, and MLB Network’s Abby…

The Pentagon has formally launched the Europe force posture review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last month, beginning a process to examine U.S. military troop presence, force posture and basing across Europe.Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby announced on X Tuesday that the Defense Department had “kicked off” the review Hegseth unveiled during the NATO defense ministerial in Brussels on June 18. Hegseth described the effort at the time as “a real review” of America’s force posture and basing in Europe.Neither Hegseth’s announcement nor Colby’s statement announced troop reductions, unit movements or installation changes as part of the review. The Pentagon also has not said when the review’s recommendations will be released.The review follows repeated calls by Trump administration officials for European allies to assume greater responsibility for NATO’s conventional defense as the administration reassesses U.S. force posture worldwide.Hegseth said the review is expected to take up to six months, but it “could be less.” He shared that the review will include input from U.S. European Command as well as consultations with Congress and U.S. allies.Colby said the review is designed to ensure NATO is “moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe taking primary responsibility for its conventional defense.”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Willie Nelson urged Americans to think again when it came to building the future.Nelson, 93, encouraged followers to “fight against data centers invading our land” in a social media plea shared Tuesday.The country music legend reflected on being able to see “stars at night” in his Texas hometown, but that light pollution and “water thieving” were imminent in a looming industrial climate.KACEY MUSGRAVES ABRUPTLY CANCELS CONCERT DATES FROM ‘MIDDLE OF NOWHERE’ TOUR “I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a home there with farmed land where I can still see stars at night,” Nelson told his followers.”And now our community, like many others, needs to fight against data centers invading our land.”SINGER ZACH TOP SLAMS MODERN COUNTRY MUSIC, SAYS IT LACKS ‘SOUL’He added, “The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter).”The “On the Road Again” singer noted how “the strength of rural America has never come from big industrial footprints.””It comes from generations of people, open spaces, local businesses, and a connection to the land,” Nelson wrote. “All of America deserves thoughtful stewardship that…

An officer in the D.C. National Guard admitted Tuesday to an international sham marriage, false immigration documents and tens of thousands of dollars in stolen government funds to support a woman he married abroad and brought back to the U.S.Maj. Collin L. Welch, 40, pleaded guilty to unlawfully introducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S. and the theft of around $54,000 in government money, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, D.C. He is scheduled for sentencing in December. As a married man, Welch was posted in 2019 to the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where he kindled a relationship with a Mongolian woman. By creating a fake divorce decree, he convinced the woman he was single and in 2022, he married her in Mongolia, federal prosecutors said.In 2024, Welch brought the woman and her minor daughter to the U.S. on tourist visas and in October of that year, he married the woman for a second time in Virginia, according to the attorney’s office. Welch was still legally married to his initial wife at each of his subsequent nuptials.When his guests’ tourist visas expired in early 2025, Welch continued to house and financially support them and he, once again,…

Iran has demanded that Ukraine pay restitution for attacking a cargo ship; however, Kiev insists it was an accident and that the strike was unintentional. The Ukrainian foreign minister has abruptly changed course with his rhetoric on the cargo ship strike, seeking to “avoid unnecessary escalation.” Ukrainian forces struck the Anna early on Saturday, causing an explosion that killed one Iranian sailor and injured another. It also angered Iran’s ruling class. Kiev’s foreign minister, Andrey Sibiga, initially said that “Iran has no standing to pretend to be a victim,” only to call Tehran a day later and assure it that the attack was unintentional and that Kiev did not seek escalation, according to a report by RT. Sibiga said that Ukrainian operations are solely aimed at countering Russia and were “never intended to target civilian vessels or people,” while calling on Tehran to end its alleged support for Moscow. Sibiga also said that Iran was attempting to divert attention from Russian strikes on Ukrainian shipping in the Black Sea, before shifting his rhetoric. He also denounced Iran’s complaints as “unjustified and groundless” and referred to the Iranian government as “the regime in Teheran.” Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Tuesday, “Was assured by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: A resurfaced video shows that following the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, now-Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said the country was facing a “really exciting” opportunity to “end the current situation of over-policing communities of color which has been in place in this country since its founding.”Talarico, a Texas state lawmaker, is tied in recent polling with Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race to be the state’s next U.S. senator. Such a flip would be the first in decades and would deal a major blow to the GOP’s chances of retaining a Senate majority. Despite a history of controversial statements, including calling God nonbinary and claiming there are six genders, Talarico has recently positioned himself as a moderate, pro-police candidate.However, critics are calling his pro-police stance into question after they say the resurfaced video destroys that narrative.Zach Kraft, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, ripped Talarico as a “dangerous freak who is willing to endanger the entire state just to prove that he is sufficiently woke.”FAR-LEFT SENATE HOPEFUL EXPLAINS ‘OGRE ON A PIKE’ REMARK AFTER GETTING TORCHED BY HIS OWN PARTY…

Boeing’s Air Force One program caused the defense company to lose $280 million in the second quarter of 2026, according to earnings the contractor released Tuesday.The contractor has faced setbacks in delivering two Air Force One aircraft for presidential use by its initial projected timeline due to a lack of properly cleared workers and supply chain issues, causing President Donald Trump to use a Qatari-donated jet in the interim.Trump first traveled with the modified Qatari aircraft in early July, but just a couple weeks later, revealed that it would be “maxed out” for upgrades since the plane lacks necessary security features, like missile-defense capabilities, for a presidential aircraft.The absence of the security features caused Trump to instead fly with an older Air Force One out of Turkey after the recent NATO Summit as tensions escalated with Iran.Plans for the new Boeing VC-25Bs have been in effect for about a decade and were originally slated for 2024, but are now expected in 2028.The contract was signed in 2018 with a fixed $3.9 billion price tag, but the delays have cost Boeing billions of dollars extra as the company rushes to deliver the jets to the executive airlift fleet alongside the VC-25A…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For New York Jets fans, watching their favorite team on Sundays over the last 16 years has been a form of torture. Apparently, the feeling isn’t much different for the players.Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burress spent 20 months in prison after infamously shooting himself in the thigh with a gun he was carrying illegally at a Manhattan nightclub during the 2008 season while playing for the New York Giants. Burress signed with the Jets in 2011 and said the feeling behind bars was similar to when he suited up for Gang Green.”They’re both kind of similar because when I walked into prison my first day, I was like, ‘Damn, man, you are a f—ing loser,” Burress said during a recent appearance on “The Joint Venture Show.” “And I had the same damn feeling every day I walked through the door with the Jets. I was like, ‘Damn I hope we can win this weekend.’ Loser.”Burress was on top of the world after catching the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII, helping the Giants topple the undefeated New England Patriots. In the 2007 season, he caught 60 passes for 1,025 yards and 12…

The U.S. Navy is rapidly advancing its unmanned surface fleet. Just a little over two weeks after U.S. Central Command utilized three Corsair unmanned surface vessels to strike a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar Abbas naval base in Iran, marking the “first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations,” the Navy confirmed its first live-fire training exercise of its Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft uncrewed surface vessel.Two former U.S. warships, the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu and the cruiser USS Mobile Bay, were sent below the seas off the coast of Hawaii during a live sinking exercise, or SINKEX, event during the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise.On July 24, the Navy released footage of the sinking, including the USV targeting the hulk of the USS Peleliu.Sarah Weinstein, a surface warfare officer currently serving as the first Commanding Officer of Unmanned Surface Vessel Division 32, confirmed that her division, USVDIV-32, was behind the execution of the Navy’s first GARC live fire. “It was incredible to watch my team execute with precision and we were thrilled to provide a perspective of the former USS Peleliu that often isn’t often captured in a SINKEX,” the officer wrote…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Republican governor in a state that voted to elect President Donald Trump is facing intense backlash online after an interview arguing against the president’s order to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) migrants from the United States.Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s state is home to an estimated 30,000 Haitian TPS holders. He told CBS earlier this week that the Haitians shouldn’t be sent back to their country of origin.”Haiti is hell today. So you’d be sending people … back to hell,” he said. “Very few of these Haitians will voluntarily go back to Haiti. If they have to leave, they’ll go someplace else. They want to work. They want to support their family. They don’t want to go back to Haiti.” BLUE STATE LEADERS ERUPT AFTER SUPREME COURT’S DECISION ENDING TPS PROTECTIONS FOR HAITIANS, SYRIANSOnline detractors quickly seized on DeWine’s comments, mostly from users claiming that those responsible for Haiti’s conditions are the ones that the governor wants to allow to stay in the United States.”What makes Haiti hellish? Is it…the Haitians?” asked Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, in response to CBS’ story about the interview posted on X.”Hey governor, what is…