Comment on Russell Westbrook’s impact on Nuggets transcends 22-point breakout game: “What an interesting person”

Just when it seemed like the Colorado Avalanche’s injury situation couldn’t get worse, it did. Jared Bednar said Wednesday morning that Ross Colton will miss six-to-eight weeks with a broken foot after leaving the Avalanche game early Monday night. The coach also said Miles Wood is likely out 7-10 days with an upper-body injury that he’s been trying to play through but no longer can. This means the Avs will play Wednesday night against the Tampa Bay Lighting without six of the club’s top-10 forwards, more than $26 million worth of players. RELATED: Avalanche Journal: 10 observations from a wild, roller-coaster start to the season “I feel like we’ve been through it a lot,” Bednar said.

BROOKLYN, N. Y. — While most of the Nuggets were asleep or otherwise keeping to themselves during a long flight to Toronto last weekend, Russell Westbrook wandered to the back of the team’s plane and struck up a conversation with head coach Michael Malone. There was talk of basketball, of Denver’s new-look second unit and its bumpy start to the season.

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NEW YORK — Fifteen years after little Anthony Volpe watched the Yankees parade with the World Series trophy, he saved their season and kept alive hopes for an improbable title. New York had moved closer to getting swept in the World Series when Freddie Freeman hit another first-inning home run. Volpe, a New York native whose family idolizes the pinstripes going back generations, turned on a knee-high slider and perhaps reshaped the Series, too.

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