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Mile High Stadium Naming Clusterf*ck and Revenge of the Nerds

This week, crews are removing Sports Authority signage from what has been known in recent years as Sports Authority Field at Mile High, presumably because the Denver Broncos are sick of playing in a stadium emblazoned with the name of a company that declared bankruptcy in March 2016 and liquidated all its assets a few months later. Since acquiring stadium naming rights in August of that year, Broncos executives have tried and failed to line up a new sponsor, and a branding expert says the type of tech companies most able to afford the $10 million per year the team wants are hesitant to get involved in a business relationship that could well conjure painful personal memories.
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The Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver — 2018 Edition

The skies keep getting smokier over Denver — because good barbecue keeps coming to the city. In the works for spring and summer this year are Smok BBQ inside the Source Hotel, Hank's Texas Barbecue on East Colfax Avenue, the reopening of Owlbear Barbecue on Larimer Street, and BBQ Supply Co...
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Angry Chicken Makes a Big Flap on Havana Street

Angry Chicken’s soft opening on December 6, 2017, was hugely anticipated by the neighborhood — so much so that the restaurant ran out of chicken after just five hours. “We didn’t expect the first day to be so busy,” says John Kim, owner of the first Korean-based Angry Chicken franchise...
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Threesome on Video Leads to School of Mines Sexual-Conduct Lawsuit

Shortly after a former first-year student sued the University of Denver over what his complaint describes as "false allegations of non-consensual sexual contact" with a fellow DU freshman that led to his expulsion, the law firm representing him has filed a similar suit against the Colorado School of Mines. The Mines student in question says he was never given a chance to properly defend himself against inaccurate claims that he'd taken advantage of a drunk female student during a threesome and captured and distributed a video of the encounter.
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Rashaan Salaam’s Heisman Sells for Nearly $400K, More Than O.J. Simpson’s

The 1994 Heisman Trophy won by CU Boulder running back Rashaan Salaam, who killed himself in a Boulder park circa December 2016, has been sold at auction for $399,608.40. This total is reportedly the most ever for a Heisman, topping the cash paid for O.J. Simpson's, among others. A likely reason for the high price was its now-former owner's pledge to donate a significant portion of the windfall to research of CTE, a brain disease common among NFL players from which Salaam may have suffered.
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Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend in Denver

Travel through Colorado with AJ Keil, admire contemporary art and photography, pick up a paintbrush and help paint a mural or get a head start on your holiday shopping: It's all there for the taking—and viewing—in Denver galleries and right on the street.
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Supermarkets Won’t Build in Montbello: How Residents Are Fighting Back

In September 2016, we told you about attempts to convince a national grocery chain to build in Montbello, a diverse Denver neighborhood that qualifies as a food desert because it doesn't have a single full-service supermarket. A year later, every major retailer approached by the community has declined to launch such an effort, even though Montbello was named America's fastest growing "suburb" in a survey released earlier this year.
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Will City Council Investigate Michael Hancock After New Victim Statement?

Denver City Councilman Rafael Espinoza's call for an investigation over improper texts that Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sent to Denver police detective Leslie Branch-Wise when she was a member of his security detail circa 2011-2012 didn't gain support from other members of the panel, which issued a joint statement rejecting the launch of such a probe.
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Santiago’s Helps Make Breakfast Burritos Denver’s Official Food

The Santiago’s at 571 Santa Fe Drive sees a steady influx of breakfast seekers even at mid-morning — well after the main rush-hour crush of Denverites grabbing their daily breakfast burritos. But few customers, fixated as they are on their foil-wrapped repast, realize that the woman who started it all...
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At Least Eleven Pot-Related Homicides Since Legalization, DA Says

The July 25 post "Shawn Geerdes's Marijuana-Grow Murder Used to Attack Legal Pot" asserted that 18th Judicial District DA and 2018 Colorado gubernatorial candidate George Brauchler had attempted to score political points with anti-cannabis critics by way of post-prosecution statements such as, "Here is yet another violent crime related to marijuana. Whatever benefits there may be from the legalization of marijuana, eradicating violent crime associated with it is not one of them." Here's his response.