- If you want to see three-time NBA MVP and current Denver Nugget Nikola Jokić play basketball in the 2027-2028 season, you may need a plane ticket to Greece. ESPN is reporting that the owner of the Panathinaikos Basketball Club in Athens has made a proposal to encourage Jokić to opt out of his final year with the Nuggets and then sign the star to a long-term contract.
- Meta billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is defending the crew of his $300 million yacht for “repeatedly” declining to assist a nearby boat in distress. Zuckerberg, who was not on the ship at the time, says the crew did not hear the radio calls requesting help.
- Emails show that an aide to President Donald Trump convened officials from the departments of energy, transportation, interior and agriculture, as well as the Office of Management and Budget, in an effort to identify ways to punish Colorado for the imprisonment of election denier Tina Peters. The Denver Post reports that, “In the days that followed (the aide’s) note, several agencies included in the email announced adverse actions against Colorado, canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and moving to close a renowned climate lab in Boulder.”
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is denying reports that conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln have deteriorated to the point that sailors have thrown themselves overboard and taken other steps to try to kill themselves. The ship has been at sea without a port call for about 250 days, the second-longest period in modern history. Despite denying any issues, the U.S. Navy is now rushing the U.S.S. George Washington to the area to allow the Abraham Lincoln to return home.
- Do you remember, 20 years ago, when Newsweek was a reputable publication, and then the dot-com bust hit and it was acquired by sketchy click-bait farms? Forbes is slowly headed down that same swirling drain. Its pay-to-play guest columnist program is totes sus (trying to increase my millennial/gen Z readership), and now a Forbes editor has been fired after secretly taking a $6 million payment from the founder of a research firm that Forbes partners with.
- U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert‘s troubled teenaged son was arrested again, this time for sexual exploitation of a child. He is alleged to have filmed a 43-second video of himself having sex with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18.
- If you learned that 72 people fell ill and seven were hospitalized while attending the Tacos and Tequila Festival in Colorado Springs, you might first suspect tainted lettuce or jalapenos, and then perhaps too much tequila. But, in fact, it was heat-related illness that took them down.
- Speaking of the heat, climatologists say that July was the hottest month in the U.S. in the 132 years they have been tracking it.
- The Washington Post is reporting that President Donald Trump had to secretly switch planes to depart a NATO summit in Turkey by hiding in a catering container because of Iranian threats on his life. Remember that move next time he posts an AI-generated image of himself as Rambo on Truth Social.
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino seems to be weathering an effort to oust him after his failed bid to sell a piece of the World Cup to private equity, but the question now is whether the damage has wounded him enough that he won’t survive for the long term.
- As brands have increasingly discovered the power of Reddit to influence both AI and consumers, Redditors have taken notice and are preparing to fight back in the name of keeping the social platform authentic.
- USA Swimming CFO Cory Hilliard has been placed on leave after being arrested for allegedly embezzling $9,500 from the University of Colorado while he was an administrator in the athletic department. No one has stolen that much money from CU since QB Kaidon Salter‘s NIL deal.
- The Buffalo Bills spent $2.2 billion on a new stadium and it has made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Fox reports, “Some (seats) have a pane of glass blurring views … and in the lower level about 30-40 rows up at the 12-13-yard line have their view of the other side of the field blocked by a standing platform.”
- It is hard to determine who is being dumber: LSU or its former Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels. Daniels is mad that LSU didn’t retire his jersey number and has given it to a new player on the team. So Daniels had his lawyers send a pouty cease-and-desist letter saying revoking the university’s right to use his name or image in promotional materials. As for LSU, given that only three players in its 122 years of playing football have won a Heisman, maybe automatically retiring the numbers of winners wouldn’t be out of line.
- You know the Little League World Series is just around the corner when the first lawsuit about eligibility is filed.
- And, finally, a Gizmodo reporter who uses the McDonald’s app took advantage of a California law that requires companies to give consumers access to the data it has collected on them. What McDonald’s shared was “a 515-page report that included predictions on how often he’d frequent the restaurant, when and where he was most likely to visit, and what he was most likely to order.”
Who won the week?
- GroundFloor Media‘s Lauren Noser has joined the board of Early Milestones Colorado.
- Vail Daily/Summit Daily/Aspen Times politics reporter Rob Tann is joining The Denver Post as its politics reporter.
- 9News added Mackenzie Stafford as a reporter. She joins 9News from KRDO in Colorado Springs.
- Sports reporter Justin Adams has left CBS4 after an eight-year run at the station.
- Ron Zappolo, Bob Martin, Alan Berg, Peter Boyles, Bob Gourley, Stu Haskell, Steve Kelly, Reynelda Muse and Roger Ogden are the honorees for the Colorado Broadcasters Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
- Joseph Martinez claimed a skateboard that Tony Hawk autographed and hid in Denver‘s La Raza park. Hawk then posted an Instagram video letting his followers know the skateboard was up for grabs.
