Who Had the Worst Week?

• The Washington Post is cutting 240 jobs due to a decline in advertising and digital subscriptions.
• Aspire to be a 1%-er in Colorado? You’ll need to earn $610,000 per year.
• Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton and QB Russell Wilson are neck-and-neck in the race to be the person whom fans blame for the team’s dismal record. Payton had the early lead, but Russell really showed something last night in the Broncos’ 19-8 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
• The CEO of movie theater chain AMC disclosed he was the victim of a catfishing blackmail scheme after he shared explicit photos. Can’t imagine that will go over well with the board of directors.
• A St. Louis youth football coach was allegedly shot by a parent angry that his son didn’t receive enough playing time.
• High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to the lowest in more than 30 years.
• Can DIA help fund improvements to RTD’s A-Line train service to the airport? DIA doesn’t appear to be trying very hard to find a way to say yes.
• Players and teams are pushing back against the NHL‘s new ban on Pride-themed tape on their hockey sticks. Last season, some players refused to participate in team sanctioned Pride night festivities, and the NHL said the issue had become “a distraction.”
• Tobias, the leader of the Denver Zoo‘s African lion family pride, was euthanized at seven years of age, less than a quarter of that age that is expected from lions in captivity.
• Global soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo leapt at a chance to take hundreds of millions of dollars to play for a team in Saudi Arabia. But giving the wrong woman a friendly kiss the cheek while at a tournament in Iran has state officials considering a sentence of 99 lashes.
• Bigfoot is alive and living on the Western Slope, if you believe a gullible Wyoming couple.

So, who won the week?

• Concerts at Red Rocks account for $717 million in annual economic impact in the metro area.
• Any chump can buy a multi-million home in Cherry Hills Village. It takes a star to buy two.
• B Public Relations was named best PR firm in the metro Denver area by Colorado Sun readers.
• Someone in California won the $1.73 billion Powerball lottery.
• How are movie theaters preparing for Taylor Swift‘s concert film? Alamo Drafthouse has lifted its age restriction and is planning to let young fans “break most of our policies to celebrate as much as possible.”