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If the Nuggets have nine “real guys” good enough to play in any team’s rotation in the NBA, as general manager Calvin Booth claimed this preseason, then is the 10th guy a starter or a reserve? That’s the puzzle for Michael Malone to solve on a nightly basis. Regardless of who starts, the Nuggets enter the 2024-25 season on Thursday with five starters and four bench players likely to stick in their everyday rotation.

A 25-year-old man took a plea deal last week and was sentenced to 20 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for his involvement in a large-scale car theft ring that primarily targeted victims at Denver International Airport. David Nava-Delgado pleaded guilty to violating the Colorado Organized Crimes Act and two counts of felony aggravated motor vehicle theft on Oct.

Denver Post Broncos beat reporters Parker Gabriel and Ryan McFadden breaking down what to take out of the Broncos’ 33-10 beatdown of New Orleans last week and how much the team can rely on its defense and running game going forward. Rookie QB Bo Nix continues to make plays with his legs, but what needs to happen to create more efficiency in the passing game and just how realistic is it to expect Nix to make progress over the team’s upcoming games? Sean Payton’s team rolls into Week 8 a somewhat surprising 4-3 and as big favorites at home against Carolina.

World Wrestling Entertainment founder Vince McMahon and his wife, Linda, are accused of knowingly allowing the grooming, exploitation and sexual abuse of young boys throughout the 1980s and ’90s, according to a new lawsuit filed on behalf of five alleged victims. According to the suit, the former CEO of WWE and his wife were aware that the organization’s prominent ringside announcer, Mel Phillips, used his “highly visible position” as a ring crew chief to hire boys as young as 12 to assist with errands in preparation for WWE’s wrestling shows. They also knew that Phillips’ “real motivation” in hiring the boys “was to sexually assault them,” the 82-page complaint alleges. Those young assistants, who became known as “ring boys,” were “groomed, exploited and sexually abused by Phillips, who targeted children from broken homes,” according to the law firms DiCello Levitt and Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, which are representing five men who claimed they were abused by Phillips. “Thanks to the bravery of our clients, we finally have a chance to hold accountable those who allowed and enabled the open, rampant sexual abuse of these young boys,” lead attorney Greg Gutzler said in a statement.  “That so many were aware of the sexual abuse of the Ring Boys and did nothing to prevent or stop it is simply unconscionable.” Phillips, who died in 2012, is accused of sexually abusing the ring boys in wrestling venues, hotel rooms and other locations where the announcer would “shuttle the boys in plain sight.” “At some venues, defendants even provided Phillips with his own private dressing room where he would use his own expensive video camera (extremely rare at that time) to film his sexual escapades with the children,” the lawsuit alleges, also naming WWE and its parent company TKO Holdings as defendants. The bombshell suit, filed in Baltimore County on Wednesday, is the latest scandal involving the sports entertainment giant described as “the most important man in the history of World Wrestling Entertainment.” In January, McMahon resigned from his roles at parent company TKO after a former WWE employee accused him of sexual misconduct. Janel Grant, who served in WWE’s legal and talent departments, said she was required to maintain a sexual relationship with McMahon and submit to his “sexual demands” — which allegedly involved acts of “extreme cruelty and degradation” — in return for employment. McMahon has vehemently denied the “baseless accusations” alleged in the complaint, calling them “obscene made-up instances that never occurred.” Related Articles National News | Broncos Journal: Denver’s pass rush shows signs of improvement.

Retired state employee D. Grover planned for a future when she’d need to spend more on health care, but not for her monthly insurance costs to more than triple when the calendar flipped from December to January. Grover, of Cañon City, buys a Medicare Advantage plan through the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association.

At least one Colorado resident is already suing McDonald’s after he got sick from eating food contaminated with E. coli. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that 26 out of 49 known cases in an outbreak across the western United States involved Colorado residents. Most people who got sick reported eating Quarter Pounder hamburgers in the days before their illnesses struck. One person, who lived in Mesa County, died of complications from an E.