Comment on Keeler: Avalanche, please don’t make Nuggets’ mistakes. Pay Mikko Rantanen. Help Cale Makar. Don’t break up the band.

Patty Griffin is such a remarkably gifted songwriter who outdid herself with this song for Martin Luther King Jr. -- whose birthday we celebrate on Monday! (By the way, there's also a beautiful version by Kelli Clarkson.) Some days I look down Afraid I will fall And though the sun shines I see nothing at all Then I hear your sweet voice, oh Oh, come and then go, come and then go Telling me softly You love me so The peaceful valley Just over the mountain The peaceful valley Few come to know I may never get there Ever in this lifetime But sooner or later It's there I will go Sooner or later. read more

Give Moose his juice. Let’s say, eight years at $101 million. Everybody gets what they want. Mikko Rantanen, the good solider and Nathan MacKinnon’s literal right-hand man, becomes a $100-million player. The Avs get him in on a deal with an average annual value of $12.6 — the same number as MacKinnon’s $12.6 million per season. But the depth! But what?

Colorado’s Lior Garzon, right, drives around Cincinnati’s Daylee Dunn at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Jan. 18, 2025. (CU Athletics) Fast break Why the Buffs lost: Foul trouble proved to be a difference-maker, as Cincinnati attempted 22 more free throws than the Buffs. CU also got cold from the floor late in the game, missing 14 of its last 20, and struggled on the boards in the second half. Three stars: 1.

Nique Clifford scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Colorado State to a 79-63 victory over Wyoming on Saturday in Laramie, Wyo. It was the first win for the Rams north of the border since 2021 as they bounced back from a loss at San Diego State on Tuesday.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Mary Kramer has lived in a near-total news blackout since Election Day. The Baltimore-area healthcare professional briefly dipped her toe back into the media puddle to watch President Jimmy Carter’s funeral, but quickly returned to limited consumption of the news.

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he “most likely” would give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U. S. ban. Trump said in an NBC News interview that he had not decided what to do but was considering granting TikTok a reprieve after he is sworn into office on Monday.