Who Had the Worst Week?

• Elwood Edwards, the voice behind AOL‘s once-ubiquitous “You’ve Got Mail” alert, passed away due to complications from a stroke. He was 74.
• KOA Newsradio sports talk show host Alfred “Big Al” Williams was let go as part of broader iHeartRadio layoffs. Williams was a star at the University of Colorado before winning two Super Bowls with the Denver Broncos.
• “Monday Night Football” commentator Jason Kelce apologized for responding to a hostile fan’s homophobic slur with his own homophobic slur. Said Kelce, “I chose to greet hate with hate, and I don’t think that’s a productive thing.”
• Rental car giant Hertz has apologized for threatening to have a customer who drove a rental car more than 25,000 miles in a month arrested. Hertz had originally tried to charge the customer a $10,000 fee for driving too many miles on an “unlimited mileage” rental agreement.
• NFL and college football announcer Kirk Herbstreit‘s golden retriever Ben passed away at the age of 10. Ben was a social media star, attending college and pro games with Kirk and even sometimes appearing on camera in the announcer’s booth.
• Forty three research monkeys escaped their lab in South Carolina and are on the run. Not going to lie: I’m rooting for the monkeys.
• Amsterdam police arrested 62 people after they attacked supporters of an Israeli soccer team in town to play a Dutch club. Officials described the attacks as “antisemitic” in nature.
• The University of Florida‘s men’s basketball coach has been accused of sexually harassing and stalking women, including university students.
• Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid was suspended for three games by the NBA for getting into a physical altercation with a columnist from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
• The academic papers on superconductivity technology that you have no doubt been reading may have been falsified.
• The presidential election results have some members of the legacy media wondering if Joe Rogan is more influential than The New York Times.
• 5280 has let former Editorial Director Geoff Van Dyke and Chief Revenue Officer Camille Hammond go as it restructured some of its publications, according to Corey Hutchins.

Who won the week?

• The Colorado Restaurant Association named Annette as its Restaurant of the Year and Penelope Wong from Yuan Wonton as its Chef of the Year.
• Denver received its first significant snowfall of the season this week. And Japan‘s Mount Fuji finally has snow on it, ending the longest stretch without snow in 130 years.
• The New York Times added approximately 260,000 paid digital subscribers in the third quarter, giving it more than 11 million total subscribers for the first time.
• The bells of Notre Dame in Paris rang for the first time since a devastating fire in 2019, a sign that the cathedral will re-open as planned next month.