Who Had the Worst Week?

• University of Texas tennis player Maya Joint earned $126,000 by winning a few matches at this year’s U.S. Open, but she isn’t allowed to accept it if she wants to maintain her NCAA eligibility. “But University of Texas QB Quinn Ewers makes $1.7 million from ads for Dr Pepper, Hulu and others,” you might say. Apparently NIL ad money and prize money are treated differently. The NCAA never fails to disappoint.
• The Paris Olympics and Paralympics may have just ended, but a battle is brewing over whether to keep the Olympic Rings on the Eiffel Tower. Paris’ mayor announced that she plans to keep the rings indefinitely, a decision that is not sitting well with many Parisians, including the family of the tower’s designer, Gustave Eiffel.
• Edelman‘s decision to hire former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley who served in the Trump Administration may be strategic, but it isn’t going over well with some employees. Axios reports that her hiring “has impacted morale and the tongue-in-cheek hashtag #MEGA — Make Edelman Great Again — has been circulating among teams.”
• On May 27, it hit 100 degrees in Phoenix, and it has been 100 degrees or hotter every day since – a now 111-day streak that sets a new record each day. The previous record of consecutive 100+ degree days was 76 set in 1993.
• Two Delta planes collided while taxiing in Atlanta, knocking off the tail section of one of the planes.
• Facebook has been removing posts from federal and state agencies that warn local residents about active wildfires. Officials are frustrated because in many rural communities it is one of the most effective way to alert and update residents on evacuations.
• The S.E.C. – the government agency, not the athletic conference – fined Keurig $1.5 million for claiming that its single-use plastic coffee and tea pods are more recyclable than they really are.
• The Miami-Dade Police Department is playing defense after body-cam footage showed that its officers cowboyed up and unnecessarily escalated a traffic ticket incident with Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill outside the stadium just hours before a game. Hill ended up face down on the pavement in handcuffs before being released.
• Denver and other metro cities should be prepared to receive less in commercial real-estate taxes next year. Assessors in Colorado value real estate every two years, and this year’s assessments are likely to see many metro commercial office buildings valued at a fraction of what they were worth due to historic vacancies.
• District Attorney Linda Stanley, the woman whose unethical conduct caused a judge to dismiss murder charges against Barry Morphew in the killing of his wife Suzanne, was formally disbarred.
• Former Denver Broncos star Shannon Sharpe first claimed that he did not accidentally livestream a video on Instagram of him having sex. He said it was the work of hackers and that he and his team were “working vigorously” to find those responsible. Then, a day later after he apparently confirmed ESPN wasn’t going to fire him for the incident, he acknowledged it was his mistake after all.
• Corey Hutchins reports that Michael De Yoanna is out as editor of Colorado Community Media, and he will not be replaced. Instead, publisher Linda Shapley will move into a new position of director of editorial and audience engagement.

Who won the week?

• Barefoot PR added Emily Keeley as a PR associate.
• Ent Credit Union named Amy Nigrelli as its Chief Marketing Officer.  
• Jenny Bloom, who has handled PR for Meow Wolf and the Denver Film Festival, among others, has launched Bloomerang PR. Her first client is Superplastic.
• Larry Ryckman has been named publisher of the Colorado Sun, while Dana Coffield has been promoted to back fill him as editor.
• Alma Fonda Fina, a LoHi Mexican restaurant, was awarded its first Michelin star.
• Josh Kroenke, the president of the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche, dropped $16 million on a house in Cherry Hills Village.
• Rock star. Actor. Therapist. Is there anything Jon Bon Jovi can’t do? The singer was filming a video near a bridge in Nashville when he noticed a distraught and apparently suicidal woman standing on its ledge. He and several others engaged the woman and convinced her to climb back over to safety.