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SAN ANTONIO — It’s Prime’s Time. The method is madness. But so is the moment. Deion Sanders was built for this window in college football, where moms want to hear about the degree, kids want to hear about The League, and agents want to hear about the cut. “The one thing I think Coach Prime has over everybody else is, he always worked with kids, so he understands how they think,” former NFL great and Warner Discovery/TNT analyst Takeo Spikes said recently.

A Fort Collins man faces an attempted-murder charge after he shot into another driver’s vehicle Friday during a road-rage incident in north Loveland, police say. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Denver man gets 10 years of prison time for road rage assault Crime and Public Safety | Broomfield police arrest three people in connection to shooting on U.

Denver residents looking for a safe ride to or from New Year’s Eve festivities can catch a free bus, train or ride-hail home, while police increase patrols to keep impaired drivers off Colorado roads. Molson Coors Beverage Company is again partnering with the Regional Transportation District to offer fare-free trips on buses and trains in the Denver area from 7 p.m.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN The discount chain Big Lots, which filed for bankruptcy protection in September, has reached a deal that will keep hundreds of its stores and distribution centers open. Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies. Gordon Brothers will then transfer Big Lots’ stores, distribution centers and other assets to other retailers. Variety Wholesalers Inc., which owns more than 400 discount stores in the U.

For the second time this month, the unheralded Cleveland Cavaliers big-timed the Nuggets and left them wondering if the NBA’s most hotly debated trend is too overwhelming to ignore. Are too many 3s bad for the game of basketball? No NBA city is more insulated from the nationally relevant discussion than Denver, where the more appropriate question remains this: Are not enough 3s bad for the Nuggets? Tenth-year coach Michael Malone hasn’t wavered publicly in his stance that generating a few more attempts per game could benefit them, but that Denver’s defensive regression is the far more alarming problem. In both losses to Cleveland, the two topics were intrinsically related.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but stopped short of acknowledging that Moscow was responsible. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Putin’s apology came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya. An official Kremlin statement issued Saturday said that air defense systems were firing near Grozny airport as the airliner “repeatedly” attempted to land there on Wednesday.