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Jordi Fernandez wasn’t in Denver for the coronation, but he helped steer the Nuggets toward the throne.During his six years on Michael Malone’s staff, en route to his own head coaching job in Brooklyn, he left an indelible imprint on players.“No good memories,” Michael Porter Jr. said, straight-faced. “Not a single one.”Kidding.“He was here when I first got here. He was a defensive coach at the time. He really paid attention to me and kind of saw my potential,” Porter told The Denver Post. “Even when I was coming in with an injury, he believed in me, and I was…

George Paton’s top lieutenant is getting interest for a top job.Broncos assistant general manager Darren Mougey interviewed Saturday morning for the New York Jets’ vacant general manager job, the Jets announced.Mougey, NFL Network reported, is one of several candidates set to speak with the Jets this weekend.The 39-year-old Arizona native has been with the Broncos his entire front-office career. After playing collegiately at San Diego State and spending a couple of seasons trying his hand at playing in the NFL, Mougey started in Denver’s organization as a scouting intern in 2012.He moved steadily up the ranks to scouting assistant, then…

A young Hayden Pike thought he had hockey figured out.Having just attained the strength to consistently lift the puck and aim for the top corners of the net, Pike was primed for roller-hockey glory in his Lakewood neighborhood.That was until 9-year-old Nicole Hensley, whom Pike recruited to play with him and other boys in games in the neighborhood cul-de-sac, put on her goalie gear and started snuffing out his top-level attempts with her left-handed glove.“I remember thinking I was supposed to be able to score now with those shots,” Pike recalled. “That was a moment when I realized she was…

Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2025. There are 354 days left in the year.Today in history:On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim the Grand Canyon as a national monument; it would become a national park in 1919.Also on this date:In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to declare its secession from the Union.In 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued “Smoking and Health,” a report that concluded that “cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate.”In 2002, the first al-Qaida…

Goodbye, reality. Hello, reality show.Is there any coach that makes more sense in Las Vegas than Deion Sanders?It is better for our state if Sanders remains at Colorado, where he has made the Buffaloes relevant again. But almost every NFL hiring cycle features an outside-the-box selection. And this season, if it’s not Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman going to the Chicago Bears, would it be that crazy to see Sanders landing in Las Vegas?He has yet to receive a contract extension from CU, even as he has created a compelling argument that he deserves more than $8 million per season.And Las…

Team Grading The Week has a New Year’s resolution this month we think everybody can get behind: more Russell Westbrook.The stats don’t lie. In the three games before Friday night’s Nuggets-Nets showdown, Beastbrook averaged 18.0 points, 8.7 rebounds and 6.3 assists and was generally a Swiss Army Knife of awesome. You needed him to run the offense? No prob. You needed him to guard Victor Wembanyama? Well, he did that, too.But the kids up in the GTW offices also can’t shake the notion that the Nuggets are going to run into one of those “good” problems going forward: Once Nikola…

Dear Eric: My husband and I live next door to a family that, when having work done at their house, tends to use low-wage, unlicensed workers. We found out they are getting their driveway repaved.The men we saw with our neighbor were in an unmarked truck and may not be professional concrete workers. I said to my husband that if they start jackhammering into the driveway without calling the utility company to get the underground utilities marked, I was going to call the utility company. My husband said I was not to do that.He is adamant that I do not…

To get an idea of the unique talent that is Pat Surtain II, all you have to do is look at the variety of pass-catchers the Broncos asked him to cover this season.The list includes speed merchants, wily vets, young guns and big, physical specimens. There were five Pro Bowlers, including tight ends young (Las Vegas’ Brock Bowers) and old (Kansas City’s Travis Kelce), precision route-runners like Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase and Baltimore’s Zay Flowers, and even a former pro and college teammate in Cleveland’s Jerry Jeudy.The one thing they all had in common: Surtain consistently locked them up.“The film doesn’t…

Jordan Spieth has been playing golf for a month without pain and plans to return from wrist surgery at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, ending his longest stretch without competition and looking at his time off as a chance to reset.“I had some really bad habits for a long time,” Spieth said in a telephone interview Friday. “Whether it was something that would have happened anyway or whether anything in my wrist was causing me to not be able to get into certain positions, I don’t have that issue now.“Having to take three months off swinging forces you to come…

By Sally French, NerdWalletBig hotel brands are adding vacation rental properties to their portfolios, creating new options for large groups and families.For years, home-sharing platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo have been go-to sources for large group travel accommodations. These platforms make it easier to find multi-bedroom rentals. Often, these were more comfortable and cost-effective than spreading across multiple hotel rooms. But in recent years, peer-to-peer home rental sites have drawn scrutiny for high fees and unreliable hosts.Still, interest in short-term rentals remains strong. Demand for short-term rental surged by 7% year-over-year in 2024, according to a 2024 report from AirDNA,…