• USA Today is hiring a reporter dedicated exclusively to covering singer Taylor Swift.
• Five Colorado restaurants received Michelin stars, and shockingly three of them are in Denver. I had assumed most of our stars would be in Aspen, Vail or Telluride.
• Online sports betting company DraftKings has apologized for its 9/11-themed parlay bet that packaged the New York Mets, New York Yankees and New York Jets to win. “Bet on these New York teams to win tonight on 9/11,” the offering read.
• A Nevada rapper has been charged with murder after police say he confessed to the crime in a song he recorded. The lyrics contained information about the crime that had not been released to the public.
• Nearly half of Grindr’s employees are swiping left and looking for a new employer after the company instituted a return-to-office mandate.
• Spanish soccer federation President Luis Rubiales finally resigned, a month after he kissed a female Spanish player without her consent following the team’s FIFA World Cup championship.
• Denver Public Schools board members know you don’t like them and don’t need you going on endlessly about it at their meetings. They have voted to put stricter time limits on public comment.
• Former Colorado Buffaloes and current Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker has been suspended without pay while the university investigates claims he sexually harassed a woman who is a prominent sexual assault awareness speaker.
• If you, like me, are constantly confusing your vodka with your roofing contractor, well, not much is going to change. Skyy Vodka lost its trademark lawsuit against the Denver-based Skyyguard roofing company. I’m guessing Skyyguard’s lawyers celebrated with a Stoli on the rocks.
• Denver restaurateur Troy Guard’s Bubu is the latest business to close in Larimer Square. Since Larimer Associates sold the block to North Carolina-based Asana Partners in late 2020, the block has been in a death spiral.
• Actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have apologized for writing letters of support on behalf of fellow “That 70’s Show” star Danny Masterson. The letters were written to the judge responsible for his sentencing after Masterson was convicted of raping two women.
• MGM is continuing to experience “chaos” six days after a cyberattack crippled its operations
• Actress/talk-show host Drew Barrymore’s plans to restart her talk show amid a writer’s strike has drawn the ire of the Writers Guild of America.
• The New York Jets signed future Hall of Fame QB Aaron Rodgers in the offseason, which pushed the Super Bowl dreams of Jets fans to levels not seen since Joe Namath was their quarterback. But the Jets are the Jets, and Rodgers lasted an entire four snaps before he suffered a season-ending Achilles’ tendon injury.
• Speaking of football, Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell – who has a 3-10 record as a Ram – offered some of the weakest trash talk in the history of college football that was aimed at new CU coach Deion Sanders. And Sanders, who seemingly has never found an issue that he can’t take personally, was more than happy to use Norvell’s comments as motivation with his team. If I was betting on this game, I’d take CU and the over.

So, who won the week?

• Barefoot PR’s Cori Streetman has been elected board chair at Girls Inc. of Metro Denver.
• Corey Masisak, the former San Jose Sharks beat reporter for The Athletic, is joining The Denver Post as the Colorado Avalanche beat writer. He replaces Bennett Durando, who has taken over the Denver Nuggets beat writer role. It is not clear what Mike Singer, who previously covered the Nuggets, is doing now.
• Former CBS4 anchor/reporter Britt Moreno has returned to work at KXAN in Austin after taking a longer-than-expected maternity leave to address postpartum issues. Here’s wishing Britt and her family the best.
• A 6-year-old Chihuahua that disappeared at the Atlanta airport three weeks ago has been found in good health and reunited with its owner.