Home

Nuggets Mailbag: Does Denver have any players capable of replicating Bruce Brown’s trash talking skills?

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

Beat writer Bennett Durando opens up the Nuggets Mailbag periodically during the season. Pose a Nuggets — or NBA — related question here.How long do you think it will take for Michael Malone to give Julian Strawther consistent minutes off the bench? Do the Nuggets need him, or the other rookies, to step up this year?— Matt, Lincoln ParkThe Strawther minutes will come with time. As good as the second unit was in Denver’s first four wins, there are too many young players coming off the bench for Malone to not get frustrated with one or two of them occasionally. Peyton Watson’s start to the season has been massively encouraging, but he has also disappeared for stretches. Growing pains are natural. Rotations will change. Malone wants to experiment within reason to find out who plays well with whom, and he does want to make sure promising rookies like Strawther get reps to develop this season. I expect the appearance of the second unit will have its ebbs and flows...

CSU Rams vs. Wyoming football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

CSU Rams (3-5, 1-3 Mountain West) vs. Wyoming (5-3, 2-2)When/where: Friday, 6 p.m./War Memorial StadiumTV/Radio: CBSSN/1600 AM, 104.3 HD2BetMGM Line: Wyoming -6.5, 41.5 over/underWeather: 48 degrees at kickoff, partly cloudy with 16 mph wind.Five storylinesLooking to rebound: CSU and Wyoming enter the 115th edition of the Border War coming off their worst offensive showings of the season. The Rams managed just 13 points (none in the second half) against Air Force in a 30-13 loss at snow-filled Canvas Stadium. While Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi had 297 yards on 28-of-45 passing, the Rams had just one red zone trip and their lone TD came on a 61-yard pass. On the other side, Wyoming quarterback Andrew Peasley followed a pair of three-touchdowns games with an 83-yard dud on 10-of-20 passing in a 32-7 loss at Boise State.Running on empty: With the second lowest yards-per-game average (74.0) in FBS, the banged-up CSU run game has struggled all season. That was again the case in last week̵...

Broncos midseason report card: After 0-3 start under Sean Payton, a ray of hope heading into second half

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

The Broncos have reached the midpoint of Year 1 of the Sean Payton era. The season began with playoff hopes then quickly flipped to calls to tank for Caleb Williams. But Denver won two straight before its bye week, and the trade deadline came and went without the team sending away any key players to jumpstart a rebuild. With the playoffs still a longshot at 3-5, here’s how each position group grades out through eight games in 2023:OffenseQuarterbackIs Russell Wilson back? After throwing three touchdowns in Denver’s win over Kansas City in Week 8, there’s at least a ray of hope that might be the case. Wilson has thrown for 1,613 yards, 16 touchdowns and four interceptions. His touchdown total at the bye week matches his entire 2022 season. He also has the fourth-best passer rating in the league at 101.7.Yes, Wilson has not been perfect. He threw for 95 yards and two picks in the first matchup at Kansas City. He’s had issues with execution in the second half, with a comple...

Metro Denver home sales continue to slow under weight of higher interest rates

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

Home sales in metro Denver fell last month under the pressure of mortgage rates on 30-year loans approaching 8%, but the market found ways to keep on breathing, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.Buyers closed on 2,986 homes and condos in October, down 11.6% from September and 15.7% from the pace of sales a year ago. Through the first 10 months of the year, the metro market has seen a fifth fewer home and condo sales than in the same period of 2022 and a third fewer than in 2021.There were 7,482 properties listed for sale at the end of October in the Denver area, down 1.9% from September and up 2.6% from last year. Sellers provided 3,816 new listings, which was down 16.8% from September and off 0.6% from a year earlier.The median price of a single-family home that sold in October was $649,000, up 1.4% from September’s median sales price of $640,000 and 3.8% from a year earlier. For condos and townhomes, the median sales price was $425,0...

Who's who: Overview of Parliament's leadership  

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

MEPs elected a new Parliament president, vice-presidents and quaestors in January 2022. Find out from our infographic who was chosen for Parliament's key posts, EU affairs .Who's who: The BureauRoberta METSOLA (European Parliament President)Access to the MEP's card ( Roberta METSOLA )The President is elected for a renewable term of two-and-a-half years14 Vice-presidentsThey chair debates when the president is not in the chamber.The President can also delegate duties to them.Othmar KARAS (First vice-president) ( EPP )   Access to the MEP's card ( Othmar KARAS )Pina PICIERNO ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Pina PICIERNO )Pedro SILVA PEREIRA ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Pedro SILVA PEREIRA )Ewa KOPACZ ( EPP )   Access to the MEP's card ( Ewa KOPACZ )Marc ANGEL ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Marc ANGEL )Evelyn REGNER ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Evelyn REGNER )Rainer WIELAND ( EPP )   Access to the MEP's card ...

Elias: California should try same test on homelessness as addiction

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

“The business of America is business,” President Calvin Coolidge famously observed in 1925.Related ArticlesLocal News | Elias: California’s denser housing ‘solutions’ are failing badly Local News | Elias: Butler does California Democrats a big favor in U.S. Senate race Local News | Elias: Science only seems to justify Newsom’s policies when convenient Plenty of other American cliches support his view: “Money talks, and (other stuff) walks,” goes one. “Show me the money,” says another. California authorities have now begun testing this principle on drug addiction, one of the state’s most obdurate problems.If it works there, they also ought to try it on homelessness, where high percentages of the unhoused either refuse temporary shelter or end up back on the streets after getting thrown out of housing for various types of misbehavior.The state’s ongoing trial run is a response to the failure of drug addictio...

Opinion: Banning AI in the classroom would be a generational mistake

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

American higher education is in a tug-of-war over the merits and potential abuses of AI. Fearing the self-learning artificial intelligence algorithm will render meaningless the traditional teacher-student relationship, some want to ban the technology from the classroom altogether.That would be a generational mistake.Each generation of students, it seems, is faced with some newly discovered technology that threatens to destroy the education system as we know it. At one point it was the handheld Texas Instruments calculator, a wonder of 1970s digitization, that many mathematics instructors initially forbade students from using. Mathematics was considered too important for personal development to hand off to a machine. It was pencil and eraser or nothing.Of course, it turns out calculators didn’t upend math education as many feared. Educators adapted the new technology into the curriculum and pivoted to teaching broader concepts than simple addition and subtraction.Similarly, AI holds ...

Review: Colman Domingo shines in terrific ‘Rustin’

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

By Mark Kennedy | Associated PressThe 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country — the largest march at that point in American history — and was the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.It likely wouldn’t have happened without the work of a master strategist: Bayard Rustin, a gay Black socialist and pacifist-activist from Pennsylvania, whose close friendship with King was the engine in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement.The winning, triumphant Netflix movie “Rustin” explores the stressful weeks leading up to the march from the grassroots level, with Colman Domingo starring as the organizer who many people know nothing about.It was he who wrangled 80,000 boxed lunches, 22 first aid stations, six water tanks, 2,200 chartered buses, six chartered flights, 292 latrines, over 1,000 Black police officers and a change to the city’s subway schedule, not to ...

Review: An unorthodox teacher shines in violent border town in ‘Radical’

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

By Jake Coyle | Associated PressOn their first day sixth grade, the students of Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School in the Mexican border city of Matamoros find their new teacher rolling on the floor surrounded by overturned desks.They’re not desks, he exclaims. They’re lifeboats.So begins Christopher Zalla’s “Radical,” an inspirational based-on-a-true-story drama about an unconventional teacher named Sergio Juarez Correa (Eugenio Derbez). His day-one lesson is ultimately about buoyancy. But the metaphor isn’t hard to grasp. In Lopez’s classroom, education is a life raft.“Radical,” which opens in theaters Friday, is a conventional but stirring entry in the crowded canon of uplifting educator tales like “Stand and Deliver,” “Lean on Me” and “The Class.”“Radical,” though, isn’t set at an inner-city school in Los Angeles, New Jersey or Paris, like those films are. Matamoros, alon...

‘Real Housewife’ Shannon Beador pleads no contest to DUI and avoids jail

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:56:27 GMT

“The Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Shannon Beador pleaded no contest to DUI charges on Thursday, Nov. 2 and received probation and community service, despite the objections of prosecutors who wanted her to spend some time behind bars.Beador agreed to an offer from a judge allowing her to plead no contest to a pair of misdemeanor DUI charges — essentially neither disputing nor admitting to the allegations — in return for the dismissal of a misdemeanor hit and run charge.Along with three years of informal probation and 40 hours of community service, Orange County Superior Court Judge Brett London also ordered Beador to enroll in a first-time offender alcohol program.The crash left Beador with a fractured left wrist, a cut and bruising around her left eye, prosecutors said. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.24%, – three times the legal limit.“I am grateful that no one else was injured besides me in this incident,” Beador said in a statement following the hearing. “I have le...