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Ariande, a freshman at Fairview High School, now has more to worry about than navigating high school, where she’s been focused on making friends and maintaining grades while working for her parents’ small cleaning business.The just-turned 15-year-old, who asked to use only her middle name to protect her parents, is worried she and her 5-year-old sister could end up with estranged family members or split up in foster care if her undocumented parents are detained or deported. Complicating the issue is that both Ariande and her sister are on the autism spectrum. Her sister is more significantly impacted and is…

The Nuggets’ championship hopes seem to hinge on whether they can score 140 every night in the playoffs.No, that is not a healthy lifestyle.Offense is gluttony these days in Denver. It’s easy to take for granted how effortlessly scoring comes to Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and everyone in their orbit. Even amid some recent floor-spacing turbulence, the Nuggets boast the best offensive rating in the Western Conference (second-best overall). They’re on track to finish this season as the third team in NBA history and the first in 40 years to average 31 assists.But they’re consuming calories without burning them. Forty…

Westbound Interstate 76 reopened Sunday afternoon in northeastern Colorado after crews squashed a brush fire that sparked on the side of the highway, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.As of 4:20 p.m. Sunday, CDOT officials said westbound I-76 had reopened at Colorado 59, about 15 miles west of Julesburg and 3 miles south of Sedgwick. The highway was closed for roughly two hours.The brush fire burned about 400 acres, or about 303 football fields worth of land, on the border of Sedgwick and Logan counties but didn’t damage any structures, Logan County Emergency Manager Josilyn Lutze said.She said no…

Last year, Jon Rakiecki busted out PowerPoint to show his Wizards where they wanted to go.The Windsor basketball coach put together a presentation on the school’s last boys basketball team to win a state title in 1924. Rakiecki posted the rules for that team, which went on to win a national title, in the locker room. Those rules included no smoking cigarettes, no drinking alcohol and drinking prune juice in the morning.On Saturday, when the Wizards broke the 101-year title drought with a 60-49 win over Green Mountain in the Class 5A championship at Denver Coliseum, Windsor’s present ballers met…

For the entire first year of Tonia Jones’ tenure at Mullen, hired in August of 2022 with championship-winning shoes to fill, her Mustangs didn’t shoot a basket in practice.Seriously, Jones affirmed Saturday night. Not one. They could do that on their own time, she surmised, a former collegiate player at Regis University and Metro State who entered Mullen with a highly intentional vision of the culture she planned to build.“All we were,” Jones smiled Saturday, “was defensively focused. And so this is where I thought we’d be, at some point.”“And I love it,” she added.Where they thought they’d be, and…

The 2025 Colorado high school basketball boys and girls state tournament finals for Classes 4A-6A took place March 15 at the Denver Coliseum. Windsor High School’s Brady Kingsley (15) drives the ball around Green Mountain’s Sam Mielenz (1) during the Class 5A Boy’s Basketball State Championship game at Denver Coliseum, Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Denver. Windsor won 60-49 against Green Mountain. (Rebecca Slezak/Special to The Denver Post). Windsor High School’s Camden Smith (2) hugs Windsor High School’s Marcus Martinez (14) after winning the Class 5A Boy’s Basketball State Championship game at Denver Coliseum, Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Denver.…

Best girls basketball player in Colorado history? Betts your sweet bippy it’s Sienna.“We were having this discussion (Friday) night,” former Niwot coach Terri Ward told me with a chuckle after watching Sienna Betts and Grandview crush Legend, 61-39, in the CHSAA 6A girls championship game. “So, it’s funny that this is coming up right now.”It’s come up because Betts, the Wolves’ 6-foot-4 power forward, put a bow on a stellar prep career Saturday by putting a hurt on the Titans: 21 points, 16 rebounds, three steals. Sienna led Grandview in shots (10), makes (seven), defensive rebounds (13) and blocks (one).But…

Today is Sunday, March 16, the 75th day of 2025. There are 290 days left in the year.Today in history:On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in two hamlets of Son My village, in what became known as the My Lai massacre.Also on this date:In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.In 1935, Adolf Hitler broke the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the…

This University of Denver hockey season has hit some bumps along the way, but when the Pioneers are rolling they are still one of the most dangerous offensive teams in the country.Three power-play goals, including two from star defenseman Zeev Buium, and a couple of tallies from the fourth line paved the way for a 6-3 victory Saturday night against rival Colorado College at Magness Arena in Game 2 of a best-of-three NCHC tournament series.“We played with a lot more urgency tonight, a lot more desperation,” Buium said. “That’s just what we’ve got to carry into the rest of the…

Eaglecrest’s state championship became written in the stars on Jan. 3, when Ant Nettles made his Raptors debut after the senior guard sat out the first half of the season as a result of his transfer from Douglas County.The Raptors didn’t lose since that moment, ripping off 19 straight victories that culminated in a thrilling 65-63 Class 6A boys basketball championship victory over Valor Christian on Saturday at Denver Coliseum.Along the way, Eaglecrest won four times in OT, including an improbable comeback over Mountain Vista in the Final Four. And then the Raptors erased a six-point deficit late in the…