- 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.
