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Colorado Rapids fans sound off on state of club as turbulent 2023 season rolls on

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

After years of frustration, Colorado Rapids fans have reached a boiling point.Over the last two weeks, supporters have heard from club president Pádraig Smith and executive Josh Kroenke as the team has spiraled down the drain, leading to the firing of head coach Robing Fraser on Sept. 6.Smith addressed the exit of his hand-picked coach and the state of the club, while Kroenke issued a statement that talked more about real estate than it did results. The latter came on the heels of a scathing letter from Centennial 38, the largest independent supporters group of the team, calling leadership to task for the current state of the Rapids.In the wake of these developments, we’re giving Rapids readers their say. Here’s some of the emails The Post has received since the statement. One thing is abundantly clear: Many have had enough.“I am sick of the continuing excuses for a poor product on the field and being told to be patient as ‘we are rebuilding’. I am sick...

Grading The Week: No, Jay Norvell did not call Deion Sanders out to help Coach Prime sell sunglasses

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

05We get it, we get it. Everything is stupid now. I mean, some of the new kids from the Grading The Week staff decided to zip up to Boulder Friday morning, getting their new Nikes all muddy in the process, just to land a fleeting, up-close look at Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. (GTW insider tip: The Rock was a heck of a lot taller, and meaner-looking, than all the bodyguards who were flanking him outside the CU Events Center.)Hey, if the Buffs could land one of the hottest actors in Hollywood for 0-1 CSU … what kind of star power is comin’ to town for that showdown with Caleb Williams, Lincoln Riley and USC at Folsom Field in two weeks? Brad Pitt? Beyonce? Tom Cruise? Taylor Swift?But in a Buffs world where suddenly everything and anything is possible, the GTW gang can think of at least one thing that isn’t right now.Jay Norvell unintentionally intentionally pushing Deion Sanders sunglasses sales — F.Full disclosure: Our tin-foil hats are custom made, size ...

Alex Singleton and Josey Jewell, Broncos’ “Bash Brothers,” form tight-knit bond as formidable force on defense: “Those two are inseparable”

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

It was a friendship that started on some high school vibes. During Alex Singleton’s first day at the Broncos facility in 2022, the inside linebacker searched for an open seat inside the defensive meeting room, and he happened to stumble across a chair near veteran inside linebacker Josey Jewell.From there, Singleton and Jewell began talking football… and other things… and even more things.Soon enough, they were showing up to a road game against the Tennessee Titans in matching denim Canadian tuxedos, golfing, sporting similar facial hair and eating the same meals. Now, they live four minutes apart on the edge of Aurora.“Those two are inseparable,” said defensive end Matt Henningsen.Inside linebacker coach Greg Manusky said Singleton and Jewell are like “Frick and Frack.” Some might call them Starsky and Hutch or even Maverick and Goose. Ask Singleton, and he would say they’re “The Bash Brothers” from “The Mighty Ducks.”Singleton and Jewell’s bond off th...

Mathews: VR took me to the world’s past — and to its future

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

I was more than a little startled when Konrad Adenauer approached me in the Old Market.Sure, I was visiting Cologne, Germany, Adenauer’s hometown. But I had never imagined I’d lay eyes on the German republic’s first post-war chancellor — much less get a wave from him.Not least because he died six years before I was born.But I had traveled back to 1926, when Adenauer was Cologne’s mayor, courtesy of TimeRide, a virtual reality tour.I’m not much for tourist attractions, which TimeRide — which also operates in Dresden, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt — most certainly is. But my colleagues at a Cologne-based democracy NGO suggested I try it. I’m glad I did.Because TimeRide suggests possibilities for remembrance of difficult pasts — and for how communities envision their democratic futures.The idea of using virtual reality to document horrors is not new. The state of Bavaria created a virtual reality version of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to assist with the prosecution of Naz...

Brooks: Departing Utah Sen. Mitt Romney gives us a rare gift

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

Sometimes you do things that make you feel ashamed. It was the first day of the Republican convention in 2012, and I had nothing to write about, so I wrote a humor column mocking the Romney family for being perfect in every way. It was a hit with readers, but the afternoon it was published I crossed paths with two of Mitt Romney’s sons, and they looked at me with hurt in their eyes, which pierced me. I’d ridiculed people for the sin of being admirable.A few years later, before he was a senator, Romney asked me to come out to Utah to give a talk to a group he was convening. It’s a pain to write a speech and get on a plane, but I did it in penance for my sins. Of course, all the Romneys were lovely to me, as is their nature. And I learned a lesson: The partisans may applaud if you ridicule those you admire, of any political stripe, but stay faithful to them.We all struggle to be the best version of ourselves we can be, and Romney’s struggle is now taking him into retirement and out of...

Forecasters say Hurricane Lee weakens to post-tropical cyclone heading toward New England and eastern Canada

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Lee weakens to post-tropical cyclone heading toward New England and eastern Canada.Source

Lee es ahora un ciclón postropical con vientos huracanados que lleva lluvias a Nueva Inglaterra y el Atlántico canadiense

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

(CNN) — Lee, ahora un ciclón postropical, continúa con vientos huracanados, al tiempo que lleva lluvias a partes del sureste de Nueva Inglaterra y el Atlántico de Canadá, según una actualización del sábado a la mañana del Centro Nacional de Huracanes.“Se espera que Lee tenga la fuerza de un huracán o justo por debajo de ella cuando llegue a Nueva Escocia más tarde hoy. Se pronostica un debilitamiento esta noche y el domingo mientras Lee avanza a través del Atlántico canadiense”, dijo el Centro Nacional de Huracanes el sábado en su aviso de las 5 a.m. hora de Miami.Los impactos más significativos en EE.UU. son la posibilidad de algunas inundaciones costeras y vientos con fuerza de tormenta tropical en la costa de Nueva Inglaterra, en particular Maine, donde se ha declarado un estado de emergencia. En las costas meridionales de las provincias canadienses de Nuevo Brunswick y Nueva Escocia hay alerta de huracán.A pesar de estar a cientos de kilómetros de la costa este de EE.UU., ...

Struggling Lyon hires former Italy defender Fabio Grosso as new coach

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

LYON, France (AP) — Struggling French club Lyon hired former Italy defender Fabio Grosso as its new coach on Saturday.Grosso replaces Laurent Blanc, who left by mutual consent following a terrible start to the season. Lyon is in last place with only one point from four games.Lyon said that the 45-year-old Grosso has a contract until the end of the season, with the option for an extra season. He will watch the home game against promoted Le Havre on Sunday night and take charge of the team on Monday. Deputy coach Jean-Francois Vulliez will oversee the Le Havre game.Grosso won the World Cup with Italy as an attack-minded left back in 2006. He played 75 games for Lyon from 2007-2009, helping the club win the league and French Cup double in 2008 in an era when it dominated French soccer.Last season, Grosso showed his coaching credentials when he guided Italian club Frosinone to the second-tier Serie B title.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Millions under storm watches as Lee is downgraded and passes by New England and Canada

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The National Hurricane Center downgraded Hurricane Lee to a post-tropical cyclone but millions of people remained under storm watches and warnings early Saturday as the storm still could produce hurricane-force winds, torrential rain and coastal flooding.Severe conditions were predicted as a possibility across portions of Massachusetts and Maine and hurricane conditions could hit the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where the storm had been predicted to make landfall later Saturday.The storm was located about 230 miles (365 kilometers) southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and about 220 miles (355 kilometers) southeast of Eastport, Maine on Saturday morning.There were more than 11,000 power outages from Massachusetts to Maine early Saturday. The wind had picked up and rain moved into eastern Massachusetts.The hurricane center predicted hurricane-force winds extending more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from Lee’s center with lesser but still ...

Lee Pulls Away

Published Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:25:42 GMT

Gusty coastal winds and some rain across eastern Mass has been the story this morning, but fortunately, the worst of the storm passed just offshore. Gusts pushed 45-60mph across the Cape and Islands with a few localized higher gusts, but coastal flooding overnight was minimal, and the coastal flooding we expect for the midday high tide will generally be minor. Northwesterly winds gradual diminishing through the day as light to moderate rain showers lingers into the midday hours, before drying out this afternoon from west to east. This evening looks good for those dinner/date plans. We were very fortunate that the storm stayed far enough offshore to keep the heaviest rains offshore. If the track was 100-150miles farther west, we’d be taking 5-8″ of rain and frequently gusts over 70mph at the coast as well as much of significant coastal erosion and flooding. Seas are stirred up big time all day long with big breaking waves at the coast. If you’re wave watching later ...