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The Broncos’ season ended with a thud Sunday.Denver took the NFL by surprise and made the AFC playoff field as the No. 7 seed, but bowed out with a 31-7 loss to the No. 2-seeded Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium.Denver is already the second AFC West team to bow out of the playoffs. They follow the No. 5-seeded Los Angeles Chargers, who lost 32-12 on Saturday at No. 4 Houston.Las Vegas is in the midst of searching for a head coach and a general manager after a putrid season and Kansas City, of course, has its feet up as the…

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Broncos came an ankle away from getting the ball back in a critical fourth-down spot Sunday against the Bills.Instead of a turnover-on-downs and a chance to tie the game or take the lead, Denver found itself trailing by two scores.That came when Josh Allen bought time, floated to his right and then threw a ball to the back line of the end zone. Running back Ty Johnson, working in man coverage against P.J. Locke, worked his way up the left side and then all the way across the back line of the end zone.Take Our…

While campaigning for his first term in office, Gov. Jared Polis said he wanted to see 100% of the power on Colorado’s electric grid come from renewable energy sources by 2040. Lawmakers have approved bills furthering that vision by setting targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the goal being 100% reduction from 2005 levels by 2050.Coal plants across Colorado have been shut down with all of them expected to close by the end of 2030. Rules by the city of Denver and the state are aimed at eventually making buildings all electric. Colorado has a goal of getting nearly 1…

The red? The red misses Mac already.“I think one time, we might’ve gone horseback riding,” ex-Nebraska football coach and AD Tom Osborne, 87 years young, said Saturday when I called to ask him about the late, great Bill McCartney. “But I don’t remember much more than that. It was just kind of a vague memory. I think it was in Colorado.”At a time when the Big Eight had more characters than Henry VI, Part 2, they were the conference’s Odd Couple.Mac was just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit. McCartney, the legendary football coach who put CU…

Dear Eric: I’m pretty sure I should seek therapy. As a longtime first responder with probable PTSD, plus recent marital issues and the recent deaths of a number of close loved ones, I feel the need to speak to an unbiased third party.I’m not comfortable speaking with my spouse or friends because I’m the one they all come to, and they see me as the one who has it all together. This is so untrue. I have self-esteem issues, and I’m always worried about being seen as “less than.”Hence, my concern. I am afraid I won’t be able to be…

There’s a common theme for the Colorado Avalanche at the midway point of the 2024-25 season: It’s a team that hasn’t been quite as good as expected, but the context might help some awards voters.The Avs were 25-15-1 at the midpoint, a 102-point pace. They started the second half with a loss to 32nd-place Chicago, then blasted Minnesota, one of the two teams ahead of them in the Central Division.Given all of the injury and availability issues, it was a successful first half. And while the rest of the roster has been a mess, the top guys have been healthy…

If Colorado ever meets Nebraska on a football field again, it won’t feel as important anymore because Bill McCartney won’t be there to watch it.As part of CU’s football recovery, McCartney declared Nebraska a rival. Never mind that the Cornhuskers didn’t feel that way. They hadn’t lost to CU since 1967 and were too busy hating Oklahoma.As a directionless program, CU required a compass to navigate the road to redemption.“Better dead than red,” McCartney famously said.McCartney died Friday night after suffering from dementia for nearly a decade. My mind raced back to my days chronicling the team as a CU…

Five people were indicted on dozens of counts of racketeering and theft for allegedly defrauding metro Denver homeowners of nearly $1.2 million for remodeling projects they never completed, according to the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.Schwalb Builders and Avi’s Remodeling and Contracting owners Sean Schwalb and Avi Schwalb, along with three of their employees, are accused of carrying out a widespread contractor fraud scheme from July 2021 through December, Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a news release Friday.Sean Schwalb is Avi Schwalb’s son, according to the indictment. Customer complaints about the company’s practices were previously reported by Denver7 last year.The…

Fast break Why the Buffs won: Rebounding. Plain and simple, that was the difference, as the Buffs were plus-21 on the boards, which contributed to a 13-3 advantage in second-chance points and limited possessions for Kansas. Three stars: 1. CU’s Sara-Rose Smith: Pulled down a career-high 19 rebounds, while also scoring eight points and dishing out a pair of assists. 2. CU’s Jade Masogayo: Fought through some foul trouble to score a team-high 20 points, while also posting a pair of assists. 3. Kansas’ Elle Evans: She kept the Jayhawks in the game much of the afternoon, scoring 28 points…

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce novel and detailed online reviews with almost no work has put merchants, service providers and consumers in uncharted territory, watchdog groups and researchers say.Phony reviews have long plagued many popular consumer websites, such as Amazon and Yelp. They are typically traded on private social media groups between fake review brokers and businesses willing to pay. Sometimes, such reviews are initiated by businesses that offer customers incentives such as gift cards for positive feedback.But AI-infused text generation tools, popularized by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, enable fraudsters to produce reviews faster…