• Colorado Rockies third baseman Kris Bryant had his Lamborghini stolen as part of an elaborate ruse involving the shipping company with whom he contracted to move it to his home in Las Vegas during the offseason. Lamborghinis are expensive and break down a lot, so it is the perfect car for Bryant.
• Netflix has been hit with a $50 million class-action lawsuit related to its botched streaming of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul boxing match. Netflix claims 60 million people watched, but many of those experienced significant buffering delays or were kicked out of the stream entirely, judging by viewers’ reactions on social media. Netflix’s next concern: it is scheduled to stream two NFL games on Christmas Day.
• Denver is canceling the city’s long-running Five Points Jazz Festival, citing what city officials say are changing neighborhood needs and rising production costs.
• A 10-year-old girl in Arizona sold her prize chickens in the county fair for $2,100, but Chase Bank confiscated the funds and refused to give them back to her because the phone number of the county fair association that wrote the check was no longer in service.
• Colorado Springs is bracing for the loss of the headquarters of the U.S. Space Command when the Trump Administration resumes in January.
• Guy Fieri and Sammy Hagar – two men who apparently bonded over their love of alcohol and hair dye – had $1 million-worth of their Santo Spirits tequila hijacked as it crossed the Mexico–U.S. border.
• The Associated Press plans to cut its staff by 8 percent in a move that will impact both news and business employees.
• DirecTV is canceling its agreement to buy Denver‘s Dish Network after Dish bondholders refused to agree to a debt exchange that was part of the acquisition. The collapse of the deal leaves Dish with an uncertain future.
• The Denver-based data center company Cologix has acquired 154 acres in Johnstown and plans to invest $7 billion to build an AI-ready data center campus. Unfortunately for Colorado, this Johnstown is in Ohio.
• A frustrated Douglas County school bus driver dropped 40 kids off mid-route after they refused to comply with his demands to sit down and remain quiet.
• The Boulder Daily Camera may need to rename itself the Boulder County Daily Camera. It has moved its offices from Boulder to Longmont in what is apparently yet another cost-cutting move.
• A conceptual piece of art – literally a store-bought banana duct taped to a wall – sold for $6.2 million in an auction hosted by Sothebys.

Who won the week?

• Outside magazine released its annual list of the Best Places to Work, and it included GFM|CenterTable (#5), TDA_Boulder (#9), Turner PR (#19), Fortnight Collective (#24) and Cactus (#44). Twenty of the 50 companies recognized are from Colorado, and this is GFM|CenterTable’s 12th straight year appearing in the Top 10.
• Cori Keeton Pope and the team at Keeton Public Relations are celebrating the firm’s 20th anniversary.
• 9News reporter Kelly Reinke, wife of fellow 9News reporter/anchor Marc Sallinger, announced she is leaving the station effective today. She has not yet shared yet where she is headed.
• The University of Colorado announced it is launching a new line of apparel honoring Peggy Coppom, the team’s 100-year-old super fan.
• University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma now holds the record for most NCAA Division 1 wins with 1,217. For good measure, he also owns a number of other records with his 11 national championships, 23 Final Fours, six undefeated seasons and 111 wins in a row.