Who Had the Worst Week?

October 17, 2025 ~ Jeremy Story ~ Leave a comment

Fame usually comes with the kind of financial resources that allow you to deal with some of its challenges – gated homes, private security, etc. That’s not true of most local television news personalities who are highly visible but don’t command the same salaries. Fox31 meteorologist Kylie Bearse shared harrowing details about a 69-year-old man who has been stalking her for more than two years, and her frustrations about not being able to get the Denver D.A.’s Office to file more serious charges.
Denver hosted the 8th edition of the International Taco Bell 50k Ultramarathon that requires runners eat a menu item from nine of the 10 Taco Bells along the course – no Pepto, Alka Seltzer, Pepcid A/C, Mylanta, etc., allowed. If you throw up, you’re disqualified.
Opposition to the proposed Nexstar acquisition of Tegna, which would wreak havoc on the Denver television news market, is coming from an unexpected place: the conservative news outlet Newsmax. “This isn’t just about politics,” Newsmax’s CEO said. “It’s about whether communities will still have independent voices covering school boards, local corruption, and small-town issues that the national networks ignore.”
University athletic departments claim poverty when it comes to their ability to pay players, but you wouldn’t know from the amount they are spending on coaches … well, technically, ex-coaches. We are only half way through the 2025 college football season, and already we have seen a number of coaches fired – Stanford (Troy Taylor), UCLA (DeShaun Foster), Virginia Tech (Brent Pry), Oklahoma State (Mike Gundy), Arkansas (Sam Pittman), Oregon State (Trent Bray) and now Penn State (James Franklin). Some experts predict that this year’s firings alone could total more than $200 million in buyouts, money that schools are paying to coaches to not coach.
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is having a record year, but it told employees to expect layoffs in the coming weeks as it integrates AI to handle tasks currently managed by humans.
Meanwhile, NBC News let 150 staffers go this week as its parent company plans to spin off MSNBC and CNBC.
The triple threat of declining student enrollment, combined with budget cuts at both the state and federal levels, could create a financial “catastrophe” that forces Denver Public Schools to close more schools.
U.S. Department of ~~Defense~~ War Secretary Pete Hegseth has united our fractious nation. Unfortunately for him, it is in opposition to his plan to allow Qatar to build a military facility in Idaho.
Speaking of Secretary Hegseth, media outlets including The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, The New York Times, Newsmax, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Reuters, Bloomberg News and the Atlantic refused to sign on to new press regulations required by the Department of Defense. The briefing room won’t be completely empty: OANN agreed to abide by the restrictive policy.
Indianapolis Colts back-up QB Anthony Richardson was ruled out of last week’s game less than an hour before kickoff after he suffered an orbital fracture in his eye while warming up with a stretching band.
A Colorado man has been charged with bigamy. The twist? He is a Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) agent. Or he was, until he quickly resigned to avoid being fired.
Meanwhile, the head of Colorado’s COVID-19 response resigned two days after the state put him on leave while it investigated an apparent sexual harassment allegation.
R&B singer/songwriter D’Angelo, who died this week at the age of 51, is being remembered by everyone from former President Barack Obama to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea.
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “The Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies.” He apparently forgot he was president on Jan.6, and that President Joe Biden would not be sworn in until Jan. 22.
I mentioned last week that KOA NewsRadio morning host Marty Lenz had been let go during the most-recent round of iHeartRadio mass layoffs. This week, we learned that Jerry Schemmel, the longtime radio voice for the Colorado Rockies on KOA NewsRadio, was also axed.

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Publicis Groupe reported a 3.6% increase in Q3 growth in North America.
A new report finds that Denver diners tip the highest in the U.S., averaging 21.18%, followed by Austin and Seattle.
A record number of former Denver Broncos are expected to be at this weekend’s game as the team inducts former Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas into the Ring of Fame. The beloved Thomas passed away four years ago at the age of 33 due to complications from a seizure disorder.
Meanwhile, Denver Broncos QB Bo Nix and his wife Izzy are expecting their first child.
Apple reached a five-year agreement to be the new home of Formula 1 racing starting next season.

Who Had the Worst Week?

July 11, 2025 ~ Jeremy Story ~ Leave a comment

Boulder Weekly appears to be in a death spin after the owners fired the editor and the entire reporting staff. Curiously, the owners retained the special projects manager and bookkeeper.
There are 75% fewer reporters working in the U.S. today compared to 2002. That stunning stat came from a Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News analysis that also found that one in three counties across the country do not have “the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.”
Former Denver Nuggets President Tim Leiweke helped make Ball Arena a reality and is known for making other high-profile sports venue projects happen. What’s his secret? I don’t know, but in other news Leiweke was indicted for conspiracy to rig the bidding process for a venue at University of Texas at Austin. If convicted, he is probably hoping for home confinement rather than prison because he bought a 10,000-square-foot, $7.2 million home in Cherry Creek a couple of months ago.
The dust has settled on the historically bad Colorado Rockies‘ promotion of Walker Monfort, son of the team’s owner, to executive vice president, and the consensus is that more Monfort is not what the team needs. Troy Renck of The Denver Post said, “They need to repo the franchise, not a nepo hire” and the Denver Gazette‘s Mark Kiszla noted, “Born on third base, can Walker…find [his] way home, much less to first place in the National League West? Don’t bet on it.”
If you are looking for a stock to short, BarkBox is hiring a “Chairdog” to make company decisions via a telepathic communicator. The dog will report to the CEO and make product-related decisions.
University of Denver faculty have issued a vote of “no confidence” in Chancellor Jeremy Haefner. “Financial management, shared governance and the future vision for the university” were cited as some of the reasons for the vote.
Red Rocks concertgoers got more than they bargained for when a couple of bears roamed the venue at a Russ concert this week.
The WNBA is facing an officiating crisis that is undermining the integrity of the league, and superstars such as Kelsey Plum and Angel Reese are among the players expressing frustration.
Ted Cruz, the U.S. senator from Texas, has a knack for making bad decisions during natural disasters. You may recall in 2021 when he left the state for Cancun, Mexico, amid a devastating cold snap that left millions without heat. This week, he reportedly delayed returning to Texas from a vacation in Greece following the deadly floods so he could tour the Parthenon.
The co-op board responsible for approving the sale of a New York City apartment once owned by Babe Ruth rejected social media influencer and collegiate gymnast Olivia Dunne‘s bid. Co-op boards are notoriously tough on celebrities who may draw paparazzi, and Dunne joins others such as Madonna, Mariah Carey and Calvin Klein whose bids to own apartments have been rejected.
It is hard to imagine anyone willingly having their brand associated with the dumpster fire that is the Colorado Rockies, but Denver-based aerospace and defense technology company York Space Systems inked a six-year deal to have the company’s logo on the team’s uniforms.

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American tennis player Amanda Anisimova walked away from the sport two years ago to focus on her mental health. This weekend, she will compete in the women’s final of Wimbledon.
Fun Fact: Inter Miami soccer star Lionel Messi‘s salary is higher than that of the entire Colorado Rapids team. And he is still probably underpaid.

Who Had the Worst Week?

May 2, 2025 ~ Jeremy Story ~ Leave a comment

A climber had to be rescued a second time while attempting to summit Mt. Fuji after he went back up to retrieve the cell phone he dropped during the first rescue.
Denver Broncos Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway was driving the golf cart from which his business partner and former agent fell and died.
The U.S. Navy lost a $60 million F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier when the ship took evasive maneuvers to avoid fire from Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.
Statisticians will tell you that buying lottery tickets is about the dumbest thing you can do. Turns out, stealing lottery tickets is even dumber. Authorities in Colorado arrested four people this week for stealing $150,000 in scratchers from various gas stations and convenience stores across the state.
Colorado Public Radio and Rocky Mountain PBS are among local stations that could be affected by President Donald Trump‘s executive order to end federal funding to PBS and NPR.
The NFL fined the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and Jeff Ulbrich, the team’s defensive coordinator, an additional $100,000 after Ulbrich’s son made a cruel prank phone call to University of Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders during the NFL’s draft. Ulbrich’s son took Sanders’ confidential phone number from a team-issued iPad that his father left unlocked.
Three months after hiring him, Kohl’s fired its CEO following an investigation that found he inappropriately steered business to a person with whom he had a personal and undisclosed relationship.
UPS announced it will lay off 20,000 people as it revises its business strategy in part due to Trump administration tariffs.
Meanwhile, the U.S. economy shrank in Q1 for the first time in 11 quarters. And the threat of tariffs has accelerated imports to the U.S., exacerbating rather than improving the trade imbalance that has frustrated President Donald Trump.
What should have been a puff-piece interview on the “CBS Sunday Mornings” show to promote his new book turned into a firestorm of concern and criticism for former New England Patriots and current University of North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick. At the heart of it: the 73-year-old coach’s controlling 24-year-old girlfriend.
Carnival Cruises has placed two dozen people on its “Do Not Sail” list after a massive brawl broke out on one of its ships docked in Galveston, Texas.
A runaway kangaroo caused a two-car accident on an Alabama highway.
The Catholic Church has a history of polarizing the public, what with the sexual abuse and refusal to let women run the show, just to name a couple of hot-button issues. And don’t even get me started on the Crusades. Now, it has done it again. Designers are aghast at the kerning on Pope Francis’ tombstone.
Nike is apologizing for a slogan it used at the recent London Marathon. Nike used the phrase “never again” in the campaign, which included the slogans: “never again … until next year” and “never again, see you next year.” Unfortunately, “Never again” is a slogan most closely associated with Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the marathon took place just a week after this year’s remembrance.
Singer and Denver native Jill Sobule was scheduled to perform this evening at Swallow Hill, but she died yesterday in a house fire. She was 66 years old.

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The Denver School Board voted to extend Superintendent Alex Marrero’s contract by another two years, a move that makes it harder for board members elected in the fall to remove him.
Denver sports fans get a rare game-seven doubleheader tomorrow when both the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets will play series-deciding games. The only downside? The games will be played at the same time.
“60 Minutes” reminded everyone why it has been the most-respected television news program for decades when it closed last week’s show with an on-air rebuke of its Paramount corporate owners for trying to meddle with its content.