Forecast: Cloudy, High Near 91

Stick here for live updates and analysis as Denver hosts the Browns at Empower Field at Mile High. Live updates Pre-game updates Bo-lieve (5:21 p.m.): Several Bo Nix signs in the crowd tonight. Best one I have seen so far: I Bolieve! written above Bo Nix as Santa Claus. — Renck Inactives (4:50 p.m.): With CB Riley Moss (knee) out, rookie Kris Abrams-Draine is active for the first time this year. The rest of Denver’s inactives: LB Drew Sanders, G Nick Gargiulo, OT Frank Crum, DL Eyioma Uwazurike and QB Zach Wilson.

As part of a national “moonshot” to cure blindness, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus will receive as much as $46 million in federal funding over the next five years to pursue a first-of-its-kind full eye transplantation. “This is no easy undertaking, but I believe we can achieve this together,” said Dr.

HOUSTON — Houston’s Azeez Al-Shaair took to X on Monday morning to apologize to Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence after his violent blow to the quarterback’s facemask led to him being carted off the field with a concussion. Back in the starting lineup after missing two games with a sprained left shoulder, Lawrence scrambled left on a second-and-7 play in the second quarter of Houston’s 23-20 win on Sunday.

The Broncos are pushing their decision on wide receiver Josh Reynolds to the final day. Denver on Monday downgraded Reynolds (finger) to out, meaning the team will not activate him for Monday night’s game against Cleveland, sources told The Denver Post on Monday afternoon. Reynolds has been on injured reserve since October after he sustained a hand injury that required surgery during the Broncos’ Week 5 win over Las Vegas.

ATLANTA — Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son for federal crimes after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who disregarded the law. The president pardoned Hunter Biden late Sunday evening, reversing his previous pledges with a grant of clemency that covers more than a decade of any federal crimes his son might have committed.

Casey Mittelstadt became a productive NHL player because his hands and his mind are among the best in the sport. When he’s not dazzling with incredible passes most NHL players can’t see or can’t execute, his coach has a different aspect of Mittelstadt’s game in mind. “When I watch his game … he’s effective when he’s skating and churning his legs,” Jared Bednar said.