7. Ohio State has agreed to a jersey patch sponsorship with JPMorgan Chase expected to pay more than $15 million per season across all 36 varsity sports and directly fund its NIL collective, raising questions about whether Alabama and other SEC schools will soon follow with similar deals, which they eventually will.

6. A challenger to Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), Ken McFeeters, has filed another residency lawsuit questioning his eligibility, they will surely get him this time.

5. The University of Alabama at Birmingham professor behind a federally funded study on the vaginal health of transgender men has also authored taxpayer-supported research questioning binary sexual constructs and examining anatomical and sexual health issues among transfeminine individuals.

4. Egypt suffered its first drone attack of the Iran war when an unclaimed strike set fire to two ships at Damietta Port, including a U.S. gas-storage tanker, as the United States and Iran traded missile barrages and the conflict widened with strikes involving Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the aforementioned Egypt.

3. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 43 other state attorneys general sent a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission arguing that sports prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are subject to state gambling laws and that the agency should clarify they cannot be traded on designated contract markets.

2. Former infectious-disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a contentious Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who vowed there would be “repercussions” and scheduled a vote on holding him in contempt of Congress.

1. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci for pleading the Fifth, with Tuberville saying he hopes families sue him and declaring “He should leave today’s hearing in HANDCUFFS.”

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.