Comment on Sam Bassett knew DU soccer had more in the tank. Now, he’s the best player on the country’s No. 1 team.

Sam Bassett’s days of being a goofy kid on and off the soccer field are just about over. The years of work put in by the University of Denver men’s soccer midfielder are coming to fruition. Now it’s all business — a notion solidified by his choice to forego the 2024 MLS SuperDraft. Voted a second-team All-American last year as a junior after leading a battered team to a 12-3-5 record (7-0-1 Summit League) and the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the Littleton native is destined for the next level.

The parents of two Poudre School District students are suing the district and four administrators for employing a school bus paraprofessional with a known criminal history of child abuse who was sent to prison for assaulting children on the buses. The students, who are identified in the lawsuit only by their initials, were hit, kicked, pinched, poked, slapped and cursed at by Tyler Zanella, who was employed during the 2022-23 school year.

By Melissa Clark, The New York Times Recipe naming conventions come and go. For the baroque excess of every Beany Leeky Greens with Greeky Rampy Beans, there’s a minimalist roast chicken or tomato salad to remind us that less is often very much enough. Even techniques have aliases. One cook’s chicken fricassee is another’s braise, and yet another’s chicken stew.

NEW YORK — Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis’ directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton.

ORCHARD PARK, N. Y. — Buffalo Bills edge rusher Von Miller was suspended four games by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. The NFL did not reveal the reason for the suspension, which comes as Buffalo (3-1) prepares to play at the Houston Texans on Sunday.

P. J. Locke shot out of a cannon, and Aaron Rodgers didn’t stand a chance. Late in the fourth quarter of Denver’s 10-9 win over the New York Jets, the Broncos starting safety stormed into the backfield and sacked the star quarterback on a crucial fourth-and-10. Pre-snap, the defense showed an all-out blitz.