Who Had the Worst Week?

• Denver’s first snow of the season resulted in a 100-car pile-up on Sixth Avenue.
• NBA superstar Kyrie Irving looked at Kanye West’s last month and said, “Hold my beer.”
• TikTok star Katie Sigmond is facing charges after hitting a golf ball into the Grand Canyon. That stunt follows others she has done, including bowling with a pumpkin and throwing a fake cinder block at cars.
• Wolves have started to make a comeback in Colorado, but it won’t last long if they can’t learn to stay on our side of the Colorado-Wyoming border.
• A 65-year-old man was arrested at a youth flag football game in Highlands Ranch after his “handgun fell out of his pants and fired when he picked it up.“
• After recent cheating scandals in professional chess and fishing, it looked like we had hit rock bottom. But now we learn that the world of professional cornhole is under investigation. The allegation: illegal beanbags.
• The San Antonio Spurs cut guard Joshua Primo, the 21st pick in last year’s NBA draft, after multiple allegations that he exposed himself to women.
• Denver Public Schools is now feuding with the Denver Housing Authority over a plan to close a school in the Sun Valley neighborhood. DPS says not enough kids are enrolled, but DHS is investing $4 million in housing projects that it says will significantly increase the number of kids in the neighborhood starting next year.
• Elon Musk is expected to begin laying off half of Twitter’s employees beginning today.
• Organizers have cancelled Nederland‘s 2023 Frozen Dead Guy Days due to operational hurdles and a “lack of partnership” with the town. The event inexplicably attracts more than 20,000 people annually.
• The city of Idaho Springs agreed to pay a 76-year-old man $7 million after one of its police officers tased him for basically no reason. For context, the city’s annual operating budget for its police department is $1.26 million.
• Qatar is so concerned about being exposed as a terrible host city for the 2022 FIFA World Cup that it is offering soccer influencers free airfare, game tickets, hotel rooms and spending money in exchange for positive social media posts.
• She may have sold tens of millions of albums and won an Emmy, Grammy and Oscar, but it turns out we have been pronouncing singer Adele’s name wrong for more than 15 years.
• Alabama’s three largest newspapers will stop printing next year and move to digital-only subscriptions.
• Did the CBS Sunday Morning show get paid for hosting a celebrity interview at the New York Botanical Gardens and not disclose it?

So, who won the week?

• GroundFloor Media | CenterTable’s Get Grounded Foundation awarded nearly $85,000 to 19 nonprofit organizations. The 2022 round of funding brings the foundation’s lifetime cash donations to more than $325,000.
• Barefoot PR celebrated its 12th anniversary.
• Bradley Chubb not only exited the dumpster fire that is the 2022 Denver Broncos after being traded to the Miami Dolphins, he received a $110 million contract extension from the Dolphins for his trouble.
• All of us. The midterm election happens Tuesday, which means the end of all the political ads.
• Colorado’s Charlotte’s Web will be the official CBD supplier to Major League Baseball.
• Lena Horne is now the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named in her honor.