• The University of Denver is cutting jobs and tightening its budget amid an $11 million budget deficit. Officials cite decreasing enrollment as the cause.
• An Australian police officer who fatally Tasered a 95-year-old senior care home resident was found guilty of manslaughter. The officer said the woman – again, 95 years old – was holding a steak knife and acting erratically.
• Disney has agreed to pay $43 million to settle allegations that it systematically paid women less than male counterparts for more than a decade.
• Denver-based VF Corp., the parent company of brands such as The North Face, Vans and Timberland, announced it will lay off 242 employees at a warehouse distribution center in Virginia.
• A ransomware attack against Blue Yonder, a major supply chain technology provider, has left retailers including Starbucks resorting to backup plans to manage operations including scheduling and handling inventories.
• The new NWSL team in Boston – BOS Nation – is still another year away from taking the field, and the franchise is already a dumpster fire. After introducing the team’s new name with a video that was widely criticized as homophobic, the team is now revisiting the name after yet another public backlash.
• The dreaded PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) – hated by workers and managers alike – is becoming more prevalent than ever.
• You think your Thanksgiving dinner with family was awkward? Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield filed a $12 million lawsuit against his father and brother for taking millions of dollars from him without his knowledge and now failing to make payments to repay that money as part of a settlement agreement.
• Bodhi, the “menswear dog” who became a social media celebrity as a model for Coach and others, passed away at the age of 15.
• Alabama A&M University announced that linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. had passed away from injuries sustained in a football game a month ago, only to announce several hours later that he actually was still alive and remains hospitalized.
• Former NHL star Paul Bissonnette has been hospitalized after getting into a brawl with seven people at a Houston’s restaurant in Scottsdale. Who other than a hockey player would try to take on seven people?
• A California man was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after he tried to check two suitcases filled with clothing soaked in methamphetamine, including a cow pajama onesie.
• There is now a Hallmark Christmas movie inspired by the romance of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce – “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story.”
• Kraft Mac & Cheese has inexplicably launched a new flavor – Everything Bagel.

Who won the week?

• Children’s Hospital Colorado will build a new playground at its Anschutz Medical Center location thanks to a $150,000 lead donation from Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton and his wife Skylene.
• The University of Colorado men’s basketball team defeated the No. 2-ranked defending national champions, the University of Connecticut Huskies.
• Vito the pug beat over 1,900 other dogs to win Best in Show at the American Kennel Club‘s National Dog Show. It is the first time a pug has won Best in Show.