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The Nuggets players have teeth. They smile. They laugh. They talk. With Michael Malone’s paranoia gone and Calvin Booth’s pettiness absent, the Nuggets are enjoying basketball again. The Nuggets divorced from their two highest-profile employees and were awarded custody of Rocky. Everyone is taking ownership. Except ownership. Discarding Malone and Booth without a press conference was unprofessional, but Josh Kroenke cared more about future results than showing respect. To his credit, the Nuggets are 2-0 since the seismic shift. Malone’s exit cast David Adelman as a Disneyland dad. Have a blast, kids. Who wants cotton candy and a Lightning Pass to…

Keaton Middleton found a way to put Cale Makar’s incredible season into perspective. Makar is the first NHL defenseman in 16 seasons to score 30 goals, and only the ninth player at his position to ever reach that milestone. “What year did Mike Green do it? And Cale is a ‘98 (birthday)?” Middleton said. “So he was about 10 years old the last time it happened. We were all children back then. “It’s honestly an honor to just be part of it. To watch it happen, it’s super cool.” Green was the last NHL defenseman to do it, scoring 31…

Aurora police arrested two men who allegedly tried to meet with children for sex this month, including an airline pilot who they say may have underaged victims in Denver, Pennsylvania and Phoenix. Ralph Edward Bledsoe (Aurora Police Department) Ralph Edward Bledsoe, 68, of Florissant was arrested Tuesday after traveling from Canada to an Aurora hotel where he planned to have sexual contact with a minor, police wrote in a social media post. Bledsoe allegedly sent gifts that included lingerie and sex toys ahead of the meeting. He has been charged with internet luring of a child and internet sexual exploitation…

LOVELAND — In another world, Kevin and Jen Miller would’ve walked away from Friday night $4,000 richer. They held six Colorado Eagles season tickets at Blue Arena — sick seats, as Kevin put it. And suddenly, those seats they’d renewed for 14 years had become the most coveted cushions in town. Ticket resale prices for a simple AHL game between the Eagles and Henderson Silver Knights broke the stratosphere. Selling them, though, never once crossed their mind. For this was the return of the Captain. “You can’t put money,” Kevin said, simply, “on top of seeing Landeskog.” Not just seeing…

Jamal Murray signaled for a timeout on behalf of the Grizzlies’ bench. He nodded in approval when they agreed that it was needed. Playing backyard basketball with Nikola Jokic, Murray had just nonchalantly flipped a pass behind his back to the reigning MVP center, whose floater gave the Nuggets a late 112-108 lead. Denver’s signature two-man game was providing a refreshing reminder of its potency, and Murray was talking his trash on the way back to the bench. It was the emotional apex of a 14-1 closing run to secure a 117-109 comeback win over the Grizzlies in both teams’…

Marty Grisham A judge overturned the conviction in a 1994 Boulder murder case Friday because of flawed DNA testing by disgraced Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods. It’s the first case to be thrown out since the CBI beginning in 2023 discovered hundreds of criminal investigations in which Woods cut corners in her DNA testing — a scandal that has cost Colorado millions of dollars already and shaken the state’s criminal justice system. Boulder District Court Judge Nancy Woodruff Salomone vacated the first-degree murder conviction of 49-year-old Michael Clark, who has been serving a sentence of life without…

Today is Saturday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2025. There are 263 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, orbiting the earth once before landing safely via parachute after a planned ejection from his space capsule. Also on this date: In 1861, the U.S. Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, at age 63; he was succeeded by Vice President Harry S.…

By DEVI SHASTRI, AP Health Writer U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five others states with active outbreaks, Texas grew by another 60 cases and a third measles-related death was made public. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a televised Cabinet meeting Thursday that measles cases were plateauing nationally, but the virus continues to spread mostly in people who are unvaccinated and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention redeployed a team to West Texas. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in…

Three games left. Two people fired. One fresh start. The Nuggets want you to believe through a battery of sourced stories that they had no choice but to fire coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth. This was apparently the NBA’s biggest feud since Shaq and Kobe. Apparently, I missed Malone’s diss track. Even if the timing was brutal, the Kroenkes clearly had their reasons to can them after watching a joyless season dissolve since the All-Star break. But we are also seeing damage control wrapped in shameful denial by the players. We cannot let them off the hook.…

Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog makes his much-anticipated return to action tonight with the team’s AHL affiliate, the Colorado Eagles. Tonight’s 7:05 p.m. game against the Henderson Silver Knights at Blue Arena in Loveland is technically a sell-out, but limited standing-room only tickets may still be available at ColoradoEagles.com. Related Articles Gabe Landeskog to play for AHL’s Eagles in first game action since 2022 Shorthanded Avalanche drops home finale to Canucks Nathan MacKinnon out with minor injury, could miss final three regular-season games Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog practices with Eagles: “He looked great” Avalanche loans captain Gabe Landeskog to Eagles for conditioning…