- Colorado basketball legend Chauncey Billups – he is an NBA champion, NBA Finals MVP and Hall of Famer who played at the University of Colorado and for the Denver Nuggets – was arrested as part of an FBI investigation into gambling and “sports rigging” operations linked to multiple mafia crime families.
- A gambling scandal is the least surprising result of the professional sports leagues’ embrace of partnerships with sports books. Jason Gay at The Wall Street Journal call it “the most inevitable scandal in sports.“
- A woman in South Korea killed one person and injured eight others when she set her apartment building on fire trying to kill a cockroach. She used a homemade “blowtorch” that combined a pain relief spray can and a lighter.
- The security team members responsible for protecting the priceless artifacts at the Louvre in Paris are #OpentoWork.
- Casa Bonita has a surprise critic: actress Brooke Shields. She is the president of the Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents the costumed characters that roam the restaurant, and her complaint is about a lack of a contract between the restaurant and the union.
- Tesla’s net income dropped 37% in Q3 despite increasing vehicle sales, undermining an otherwise record-setting quarter ahead of an upcoming vote on a new pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion.
- The Denver Post has stopped paying rent it legally owes to the City and County of Denver for space in, ironically, The Denver Post building that the city acquired in 2024. The Post hasn’t occupied its space in the building in more than seven years, and it appears that the Post parent company is trying to force the city into a buy-out of its lease.
- A jury awarded nearly $20 million to six bystanders who were injured when a Denver Police officer fired into a crowd while trying to shoot an armed man in LoDo.
- Target is eliminating about 1,800 corporate positions, Meta is laying off 660 people, and Rivian is laying off another 600.
- Denver Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw spent the first six weeks of the season trying to get healthy enough to play, finally played in Week 7, and then summarily got suspended for Week 8 for threatening an official. The suspension will cost Greenlaw about $273,000 in salary.
- Old people + racquet sports = eye injuries.
- With unrest in the Middle East, war in Ukraine, and rising tensions with Russia and China, the Pentagon has ordered a Navy aircraft carrier to the … Caribbean?
- Current Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton and former Denver Broncos QB Russell Wilson are in the dumbest feud possible.
- Baseball may be known as the “American Pastime,” but a small town outside Toronto claims the game was invented in Canada.
Who won the week?
- B Public Relations ranked No. 15 on The Wall Street Journal‘s list of “Most Loved Workplaces.“
- Sarah (Davis) Bonar was promoted to PR & External Communications Lead at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
- Dana Stone has joined AdventHealth as a contract communications consultant.
- ShroderHaus added Robin Zimmerman as a Senior Account Director.
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