Brandi Carlile onstage in Minneapolis on Saturday night. Photo: Skyler Barberio*
Midwest
Angler catches prehistoric-looking fish, breaks second state record
A man in Fort Wayne, Indiana, caught a large spotted gar to smash a state fishing record while on Rivir Lake in Chain O’Lakes State Park.
Kyle Hammond reeled in the 9-pound, 11-ounce gar, according to a press release from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR).
Using a spinning rod and reel with a white zoom fluke, Hammond pulled the fish into his kayak.
FISHING RECORD SET BY WEST VIRGINIA ANGLER WHO USED 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER’S $10 PINK ROD
“Gar are usually found in shallow water around vegetation and have been seen in 71% of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries biologists’ glacial lake surveys,” said the release.
Kyle Hammond set another Indiana state record after catching a spotted gar. (Indiana Department of Natural Resources)
Hammond reportedly set the new record in the first 20 minutes of his fishing excursion.
Gar are long and cylindrical with elongated mouths and move slowly unless trying to catch food, according to Texas Parks & Wildlife.
They are primitive fish and their ancestors swam with the dinosaurs, dating back some 65-to-100 million years ago, Texas Parks & Wildlife reported.
MASSIVE BULL SHARK WEIGHING NEARLY 500 POUNDS CAUGHT AT ALABAMA FISHING TOURNAMENT
“The Hoosier angler captured the entire catch on video as part of his hobby of actively posting his fishing trips on his YouTube channel, Indiana Kayak Fishing Journal,” said the release.
Hammond’s YouTube video which showed his catch has garnered more than 2,300 views in five days.
The Indiana state fishing record for the spotted gar was recently broken (actual fish caught by Hammond not pictured). The fish’s ancestors swam with the dinosaurs, according to wildlife officials. (iStock)
Hammond holds another state fish record.
He caught a 2-pound, 5.6 ounce shortnose gar in 2021 while fishing on the Wabash River.
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Users responded to Hammond’s latest catch by commenting on his YouTube video.
“That’s a really nice gar! I’ve always wanted to catch one of those! I just started kayak fishing and I made my kayak fishing video on my channel and love watching yours!! Keep up the good work,” one man commented.
Hammond caught the 9-pound, 11-ounce spotted gar while doing some kayak fishing on Rivir Lake in Chain O’Lakes State Park in Indiana. (Indiana Department of Natural Resources/Miropa/iStock)
Another man said, “I know how hard you worked for that fish. Great job Kyle.”
“Congrats on the 2nd state record,” another user added.
One man said, “I was fishing Chain O Lakes a couple weeks ago and saw a couple of these monsters swim by, glad you could land the big one! Congrats!”
Hammond’s 9-pound spotted gar broke the previous Indiana fishing record set in 2017 after an angler reeled in a 6-pound, 12.5-ounce species.
Fox News Digital reached out to the IDNR and Hammond for comment.
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Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Bucks-Toronto Raptors Final Injury Update: Key starter’s status revealed
The Milwaukee Bucks announced that starting center Myles Turner will be available to play in Sunday in Sunday’s game against the fifth-seeded Toronto Raptors, after originally being listed as questionable, having missed their last game.
Here’s the rest of the injury report and game preview, featuring betting odds, projected starters, game notes and more:
INJURY REPORT
BUCKS
Myles Turner: Available – Calf
Giannis Antetokounmpo: Out – Calf
Taurean Prince: Out – Neck
RAPTORS
Scottie Barnes: Out – Personal Reasons
Chucky Hepburn: Out – Knee
Game date, time and location: Sunday, Feb. 22, 3:30 p.m. CST, Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
TV: FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin, TSN (Toronto)
Radio: AM 620/103.3 FM (Milwaukee), TSN Radio 1050 (Toronto)
VITALS: The Milwaukee Bucks (24-30) and Toronto Raptors (33-23) meet for the fourth of four regular season matchups. The Bucks won the first matchup in October (122-116) but lost the last two (128-100 in November, 111-105 in December).
In 2024-2025, the Bucks won the season series (three of three). The Bucks are 62-49 all-time versus the Hawks during the regular season, including 31-25 in home games and 31-24 in road games.
PROJECTED STARTERS
BUCKS
G Ryan Rollins
G Kevin Porter Jr.
C Myles Turner
F Ousmane Dieng
F Kyle Kuzma
RAPTORS
G Immanuel Quickley
G Ja’Kobe Walter
C Collin Murray-Boyles
F RJ Barrett
F Brandon Ingram
Spread: Bucks +3.5 (-110), Raptors -3.5 (-110)
Moneyline: Bucks +138, Raptors -164
Total points scored: 218.5 (over -112, under -108)
QUOTABLE
Bucks head coach Doc Rivers: “I thought every time they cut it close, we would call a timeout, run something, you know, get a good shot, then get back to playing some defense. I thought that, fourth quarter, we just simply stopped turning the ball over, you know, we took care of the ball. They had 17 points at halftime off our turnovers, they had 23 early in the third and then we started taking care of the ball.”
“The way we’re moving the ball, playing with each other, the ball’s finding the right guy. I think our guys are starting to recognize matchups. So their hunting matchups and then spacing and making the right plays has been fantastic.”
Alexander Toledo is a contributor to Milwaukee Bucks On SI and producer/co-host of the Five on the Floor podcast, covering the Miami Heat and NBA. He can be reached at Twitter: @tropicalblanket
Minneapolis, MN
Brandi Carlile Says Trump Voters ‘Got F—ing Scammed’: ‘Get Mad Enough to Change Your Minds’
Nearly two-and-a-half hours into a monumental gig on her “Human” arena tour in support of her 2025 LP, Returning to Myself, Brandi Carlile stood before a roaring, sold-out Minneapolis Target Center crowd. Behind her, a group of local freedom fighters known as the Singing Resistance stood with her in both musical and spiritual solidarity. Together they sang a powerful and poignant song, the title of which has become a rallying cry among Minneapolis protestors over the past month in response to ICE’s cruel occupation of the city: “It’s Okay to Change Your Mind.”
“It’’s okay to change your mind / And you can join us / Join us here any time”
The Minneapolis show was always on Carlile’s tour calendar, but after witnessing the injustice plaguing the residents of the city at the hands of a federal government supposedly charged with protecting them, Carlile felt it would be impossible to perform in the city without contributing in some fashion.
“It pained me not to be with you guys [in recent weeks],” Carile said early in her 24-song, career-spanning performance dubbed “Be Human: A Concert for Minneapolis.” (The show was live-broadcast globally and proceeds benefited the Advocates for Human Rights. At the time of publication, the show had raised more than $600,000. The performance remains available to stream through tomorrow). “You have been through so much,” she told the impassioned crowd. “And you’ve been on my mind every second of every day. This is home to me.”
“It’s very clear that this administration is not interested in legal immigration,” Carlile tells Rolling Stone backstage, just a few minutes after finishing the concert, her red bandanna still covering her forehead, steely determination and passion burning in her eyes. “They’re interested in violent theater. Violent theater and dominance over other people. I don’t believe most people signed up for that. Even people who voted for Trump, who I’m angry with, I don’t think they voted for this and I do think that they can still change their minds.”
She’s certainly no stranger to advocacy work, but in speaking with Carlile, it’s clear she’s disgusted but not deterred by where the country is headed. Carlile admits she possesses a palpable anger toward the current administration, and more specifically, their inhumane immigration policies. Despite being a self-described hopeful person, Carlile says the time is now to take action.
“We can’t let down our guard. We have to be resilient and loud and unwavering in our commitment to justice,” she says. “We can overpower oppression by deciding to not be disenfranchised. We can change the outcome of this oppressive regime. We can resist and not submit.”
What went through your mind in recent weeks as you watched the horrors unfold in Minneapolis?
I was really angry. My heart is on the side of displaced people. I think about displaced people — economic migrants, immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees — all the time. I think about the displaced movement of people globally as the test of our humanity in this time and age. I’m concerned about it all the time. I don’t like the part of the argument where people are pontificating about what an injustice it is that these things are happening to American citizens or in America. The fact that these things are happening to black and brown people is just as important as what happened to Renee Good and Alex Pretti. And I know if both of them were sitting here right now, they would say the exact same thing to me. I don’t know how people on the right can wax philosophical about doing it “by the book” when ICE is literally zip-tying people on the floor of their immigration hearings.
I’m glad you’re using the phrase “change their minds,” which you did numerous times throughout the concert.
Do you have time for a story?
Of course.
When I first moved out of my parents’ house, I was poor, poor, poor. I got payday loans, I pawned everything that I had: I pawned CDs for a dollar, I pawned my tools, my guitars, I got my power shut off all the time; I was working doing roofing labor and as a barista. I was in the shit.
One day a vacuum salesman came to my door. He treated me like someone that had money, like someone that was important. And he started talking to me about this vacuum cleaner and he took this little fucking strip out of his pocket and he dipped it in a bottle of water and he told me that my entire house was toxic. I don’t know how he did it, but he sold me a vacuum cleaner. He told me I wasn’t going to have to pay for it, that I could make really tiny payments. He was going to talk to his boss and see if he could just give this one to me… it was going to be fine. So, he leaves and he leaves this vacuum cleaner — so heavy I can’t even pick the damn thing up. And a few days later I got a bill in the mail for $1500.
I was first really embarrassed. I was ashamed. And it wasn’t too long before I was just fucking mad. Because I realized the situation I was in. I realized I was vulnerable at the time. I realized the guy looked me in the eye and made me feel important. And I called the company that he worked for and I said, “I know what this guy looks like. And I know where he goes. And I’m going to go to Kinko’s and I’m going to make a stack of flyers and I’m going to follow this dude door to door and go to every house he goes to before he gets there.” Anyway, they came and they picked up the vacuum and they didn’t make me pay for it.
I love the metaphor. Donald Trump is the ultimate vacuum cleaner salesman.
So, you got fucking scammed. We’re living in a scammy time. That’s what people do. You can’t even pick up your phone without getting scammed. Doesn’t mean you have to double down. It doesn’t mean you have to pay for the fucking vacuum cleaner. And I just think there are a whole lot of people out there right now feeling duped and feeling ashamed and embarrassed. What they need to feel is angry. They need to get mad and change their minds. Get past the embarrassment, get past the shame that we got duped by a con artist. Get mad enough to change your mind.
Even though ICE says it’s scaling down its mission here in Minneapolis, there remains so much hopelessness among those living in fear of detainment.
Their fear is warranted. And that shatters my heart into a thousand pieces. If there’s any hope in that, it’s that I hope that those immigrants, those people who left their homes for the promise of safety or a better life, I hope they know how much we love them. I hope they can see they are welcome with open arms. That we believe in their contributions to this country and we believe that they belong here. That’s what I wish ICE did: I wish ICE found ways for paths to legal immigration for people. That they helped them with computers and forms. What if ICE just started giving everybody rides to immigration court instead of detaining them?
It has to be empowering to see thousands of people unifying with you, particularly on a night like this one.
I was on the verge of tears the whole time. When I feel that way I have to remind myself to get out of the way; it’s not about me. I have to remember I’m a surrogate of sorts for something else. I can tell we’re living in a deeply troubled time and music and art are so important to people and being able to stand in that violent threshold and be a conduit for it is a high honor and a big responsibility.
It’s maybe the most sacred responsibility that somebody has with a microphone and a platform right now, to show people how powerful that can be en masse. It’s not me: I may have pointed to an open door but it’s all these people coming together as a collective. It’s a very dangerous and very potent concept. Because we can become huge. We can overpower oppression by deciding to not be disenfranchised.
Does it make you feel hopeful about the future of our country?
Incredibly hopeful. I’m so lucky to have this job because — and I said it out there onstage — it’s not lost on me that I may have limited access to all kinds of people. It’s not lost on me that unless I’m singing at the Super Bowl, I may only really get to speak to and sing for one kind of person for the most part. But it trickles out. It aggregates. Because everybody has got brothers and sisters and moms and dads and family members. And if the message gets potent and cohesive enough, it’ll make it.
Indianapolis, IN
New partnership celebrates Indianapolis’ Black baseball heritage
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indianapolis Indians has partnered with GANGGANG, an agency centered around equity and culture, to honor the history of Negro Leagues and Black baseball in Indianapolis.
The partnership includes revitalized imagery for representing the original Indianapolis Clowns and
Indianapolis ABCs – two historic Negro Leagues franchises in the Circle City. They’ll focus on educational tools and community outreach opportunities through five core principles: respectful representation, cultural education, authenticity through collaboration, understanding and empathy, and empowering impact.
Redesigned on-field hats, jerseys, and merchandise honoring the original franchises of both the ABCs and
Clowns will be launched in May in conjunction with a three-part web series highlighting Negro Leagues
history, current activations and outreach, and GANGGANG’s visual creation process.
“This is an effort to not only celebrate history but also protect history and heritage. It represents a very
important part of Indianapolis history,” said Alan Bacon, co-founder of GANGGANG. “There wouldn’t be
this evolution of baseball if it weren’t for these original creators that we get to celebrate and talk about.”
During Negro Leagues Heritage Weekend on Friday, Aug. 21 and Saturday, Aug. 22, the Indians will suit
up as the ABCs, with the opportunity for fans to bid on game-worn jerseys to benefit Indianapolis Indians Charities.
Throughout the weekend, fans will have the opportunity to experience Negro Leagues educational opportunities and activations from local Black artists.
Fans are encouraged to submit their personal stories from playing baseball growing up, attending games at Bush Stadium or Victory Field, and any personal connections to the Indians, Clowns or ABCs, to baseball in Indiana here.
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