• Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” That is an expression that served quadruple amputee and professional cornhole player Dayton Webber well, right up until it didn’t. Webber, the first quadruple amputee to compete in the American Cornhole League, has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting a man during an argument. I was pretty sure I knew what the defense attorney’s argument was going to be, but then a TikTok video surfaced of Webber firing a handgun at a target. Who knew?
• It’s hardly a surprise after one of the warmest winters on record and the lowest snow pack in decades, but most of Colorado’s ski resorts have announced they will end this ski season earlier than expected.
• Pour one out for Snooki, Christina Haack and Real Housewives from coast to coast, among others – the number of unscripted and reality television series with season premieres in the U.S. has dropped by a third since 2022. The good news if you are a fan: even with the drop, there were still 794 unscripted/reality show premieres last year.
• Is there a social media reckoning on the horizon? A jury in New Mexico found that Meta – parent company of Facebook and Instagram – misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, which allowed the sexual exploitation of underage users. It ordered Meta to pay $375 million in damages. Meanwhile, a separate jury in California found Meta and YouTube financially liable for a young user’s mental health distress because they purposefully designed their features to be addictive.
• Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert took to Twitter to celebrate her travel experience: “You can’t make this stuff up!! ICE agents show up at airports, and suddenly TSA wait times in Minneapolis drop to less than five minutes!” The only problem was that ICE hadn’t been deployed in Minneapolis‘ airport and wait times there have been relatively short since the partial government shutdown began.
• A special U.S. House ethics subcommittee found Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., guilty of 25 ethics charges, ending a three-year investigation into allegations she stole millions of dollars in federal relief funds. The committee will now turn its attention to her punishment, which could range from a censure to her expulsion from the House.
• Former KOA NewsRadio “Colorado Morning News” co-host Marty Lenz discussed being laid off by iHeartMedia, and the role he believes his refusal to allow the show to be a “conservative news” program played in it. “I was laid off during iHeart’s annual/semiannual reduction in force. While the official explanation cited cost-cutting … I believe other considerations were also at play,” he shared.
• In this week’s edition of unexpected celebrity feuds, we have American singer Chappell Roan and Brazilian soccer star Jorginho. The dispute centers on whether Roan’s bodyguards were too rude to Jorginho’s young stepdaughter, who happens to be the biological daughter of actor Jude Law.
• Opening Day is this week, and that means ESPN is out with its annual baseball projections. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but they predict our Colorado Rockies will be the worst team in Major League Baseball, and give us a “0%” chance of making the playoffs and a “0.0%” chance of making the World Series.
• Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby may have already lost every bit of his reputation, but he can still be hit where it hurts. A jury this week found him liable for the 1972 sexual assault of a woman and ordered him to pay her $59 million.
• I’m not sure who would pick a fight with Alan Ritchson, the massive actor who portrays character Jack Reacher in the eponymous television series, but one of his neighbors apparently did just that. Police ruled Ritchson acted in self-defense when he pummeled the neighbor.
• NBC “Today” morning show host Savannah Guthrie announced she will return to the show on April 6, more than two months after her mother went missing. Guthrie shared that she doesn’t believe her mother is alive and the family is focused on trying to recover her body.
• A Secret Service agent escorting former First Lady Jill Biden through the Philadelphia International Airport accidentally shot himself in the leg.
• A California father was arrested and charged with two felonies after he added official-looking stop signs at an intersection adjacent to a children’s playground.

Who won the week?

• Turner PR promoted Deborah Park to Executive Vice President of Travel & Tourism.
• Westword co-founder and editor Patty Calhoun announced she will retire in July after 49 years with the alt-weekly. More than anyone, Patty has chronicled Denver‘s rise from a sleepy outdoors-and-oil-and-gas town to the modern, sophisticated city we know today. Her institutional knowledge of Denver is second to none, and her departure will be a painful loss.
• Colorado Public Radio host Nathan Fernando-Frescas has been elected president of the Denver Press Club.
• Tired of watching Congress do nothing while TSA agents continue to not be paid, Delta Airlines yanked the special red-carpet services it offers Congressmembers. Those perks include expedited screening, escorts through airports to bypass long security lines and dedicated reservation desks.
• Denver‘s new NWSL team, the Summit, will set a new league attendance record tomorrow when they play their inaugural home game in front of more than 50,000 fans at Empower Field.
• The Kennedy Center announced it will award comedian Bill Maher the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
• The Denver Nuggets introduced a Spanish-language audio broadcast of its games this week on the team’s mobile app.
• Actor Kurt Russell shared that his and wife Goldie Hawn‘s ranch in Snowmass is their favorite home, beating out their other homes in Los Angeles; Palm Desert, Calif.; and New York.

• Atlanta has almost as many strip clubs as Waffle Houses, so it was only a matter of time before the Atlanta Hawks got around to having a promotional night honoring one of them. That strip club turned out to be Magic City, which the Hawks lovingly described as an “iconic cultural institution” and an “Atlanta landmark.” Alas, when the NBA found out, it stepped in and made them cancel it. The Hawks, defiant to the end, responded, “We remain committed to celebrating the best of Atlanta.”
• Nothing says “exclusive dining experience” like a $1,500 meal served with a side of an abuse scandal. After The New York Times detailed years of alleged physical and psychological mistreatment by Noma chef René Redzepi, the restaurant’s pop-up experience in L.A. lost prestigious sponsors American Express and Blackbird. And following that, it lost Redzepi, who resigned via an Instagram post and a tearful video.
• Finally, a non-University of Michigan scandal in the Big 10. Walter Carter Jr., the president of The Ohio State University, is out of a job after admitting that he had an improper relationship with a woman and that he gave her “access to Ohio State leadership to support her personal business.”
• It’s been quite a week for the Department of Defense War:
  • The Pentagon has banned press photographers from the briefing room after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth found photographs from his recent press briefing unflattering.
  • Officials at the Pentagon threatened The Washington Post that a link on its website asking people to report Pentagon-related news tips “crossed the line into the sort of ‘solicitation’ that is not protected by the First Amendment and that could prompt punishment under the new restrictions.”
  • Secretary Hegseth blasted CNN for its Iran coverage, and announced that the “sooner” that Paramount Skydance CEO and friendly Republican David Ellison “takes over that network, the better.” Paramount Skydance has an agreement to acquire CNN’s owner, Warner Bros. Discovery.
  • CNN wasn’t the only media target in the Trump administration‘s crosshairs. White House officials expressed outrage that CBS News hired Jeremy Adler, a communications executive who formerly worked with Rep. Liz Cheney. They apparently only want people at news divisions that they can count on to be friendly to them.
  • Former NFL players expressed outrage at a propaganda video that juxtaposed their big hits on the football field with images of the U.S. bombing Iran. The Pentagon has declined to remove the video, which is accompanied by the AC/DC song “Thunderstruck.” Former NFL player Kenny Bell said, ““For (my) play to be associated with bombing human beings makes me sick. I don’t want anything to do with images like that.”
• Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio became a meme when President Donald Trump gifted him a pair of shoes that were clearly too big for him, but he apparently was afraid of offending the president and wore them anyway.
• Two Adams City High School students are facing felony charges after they phoned in a false bomb threat and active shooter situation at their school. The students were found at the school with the same type of fake blood that had been smeared in the school’s hallways. Approximately 200 first responders, including police officers with K-9s and bomb-detection equipment, spent several hours responding to the scene.
• The Colorado Republican Party continues its dysfunction. After failing in her attempt to unite the party, state chair Brita Horn announced she will step down next month. She is the sixth consecutive Republican state chair who will have served just one full term or less.
• Meanwhile, Colorado Attorney General candidate and current Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is trying to dig herself out of the hole she created when she falsely claimed she argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Players are blaming a data breach at the Women’s Tennis Association for releasing their private cell phone numbers. You might think they would be receiving calls from lonely, desperate men, but in reality they are receiving calls from organized gambling rings threatening them if they don’t throw matches.
• It’s common for new members of pro sports teams to buy their preferred number from another playing who is using it, but L.A. Kings player Artemi Panarin sank to a new low when he had to buy No. 72 from … the team mascot. He gave “Bailey the Lion” a Rolex for the number.

Who won the week?

• Former JohnstonWells CEO GG Johnston is celebrating the 16th anniversary of Downstream Partners, her consulting firm that helps businesses better align and be more successful.
• Katie Trexler McLean‘s book “What Do I Tell My Daughter” will be published this fall.
• The Denver Post profiled Denver Summit FC’s majority owner Rob Cohen. He also is chairman and CEO of Denver-based IMA Financial Group.

• No Denver hotel may have more history than the Brown Palace, but that history is also working against it. The hotel has undergone multiple renovations to try to make it as modern as competitors such as the Four Seasons and the Ritz-Carlton, but it also finds itself located in the wrong part of downtown – far away from Union Station and the Arts District. The Brown Palace is now for sale for the third time since 2014.
• U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may get away with banning vaccines, but Massachusetts residents rebelled when he threatened to take away their sugary Dunkin‘ coffee drinks. That’s a bridge too faah.
  • RFK Jr. still had a better week than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. President Donald Trump fired her after two brutal days testifying before Congress in which she alleged that President Trump authorized a $200 million advertising campaign featuring her and deflected questions about whether she was sleeping with one of her top aides.
• Data indicate that the arrest rate for rapes in our state sits at just 10%.
• A report commissioned by Visit Denver and restaurant financing company InKind finds that Denver‘s restaurant scene is in “crisis.” The Cliffs Notes version: Denver lost thousands of restaurant jobs between 2020 and 2025, our costs and prices are on par with New York and L.A.’s, and city bureaucracy continues to be a challenge.
• What did a $110,000 investigation into one of the Denver Police Department‘s division chiefs find? We don’t know. DPD refuses to release the report.
• The Atlanta Track Club agreed to award nearly $40,000 to three participants of its USATF Half Marathon Championships  when they were led off course by an official race motorcycle. Complicating the situation is that the race was qualifying event for the world championships in Denmark, and the three individuals who should have finished on the podium for the race now have not qualified for the world championships.
• There’s a reason CEOs usually don’t appear in advertisements, and McDonald’s reminded us why when CEO Chris Kempczinski awkwardly promoted the chain’s new Big Arch burger, which he referred to lovingly as “this product.” Among the competing brands who immediately jumped online to roast him were Burger King, Buffalo Wild Wings, Wendy’s and even Ryanair.
• If you are waiting for an overnight package from someone in Vail, cross your fingers. A FedEx semi-truck traveling to Denver crashed and tumbled into Clear Creek.
• The battle between AI company Anthropic and the Trump administration continues. Anthropic is holding its moral line while the Trump administration tries to declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk and sever its government contracts. The courts will decide.
• Troubled singer Britney Spears‘ challenges continue. She was arrested this week for DUI.
• The Hollywood Reporter dug through recently released Department of Justice files to uncover how a small cadre of public relations professionals enabled Jeffrey Epstein.

Who won the week?

• Linhart PR‘s CFO Carri Clemens is celebrating her 30th anniversary with the agency.
• 9News morning anchor and reporter Lauren Scafidi is leaving the station for a new undisclosed career opportunity.
• DIA awarded a 10-year advertising contract to JCDecaux North America, a subsidiary of the world’s largest outdoor advertising company. The contract still has to be approved by the Denver City Council and, if approved, will become effective in May 2026.
• Aurora Chef Michael Diaz de Leon of the taqueria Molino Chido is one of 16 participants on the CBS television show “America’s Culinary Cup.”
• Denver is on the shortlist to host the 2028 Democratic National Convention.
• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, paid $170 million for a still-under-construction mansion on Miami’s Indian Creek island. 
• We’ve seen versions of this story before – a college accidentally notifies students they were accepted when they weren’t, and humiliated kids have to backtrack on public announcements of their college plans. This time, BYU flipped the script. After nine prospective students were mistakenly sent acceptance letters despite not being admitted, the school has decided to enroll them.