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CU Hires Three Pulitzer Winners
Some of newspapering's best and brightest are trading journalism for academia — including three Pulitzer winners hired at CU.
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Shakeup in Denver Radio
Denver radio's getting a shakeup, with more alterations on the horizon. But do any of the switches qualify as improvements?
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Sazza
If you must go for gourmet pizza, go to Sazza.
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Crepes ’n Crepes
French food is no flash in the pan.
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Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State
How does DA Carol Chambers beat the high cost of a death-penalty prosecution? By billing the prison system.
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A Cold Case Frozen in Time (10)
Until this cold case heats up, Sharon Skiba is lost in limbo.
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Con Artist Gives Funny Cause for Pregnant Pause (7)
Would you pay $20 to get a scam artist off your front porch?
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Big Trouble (8)
Gary Haney was living the high life until meth took him down.
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To the Max (5)
A publicity-hungry student shows how easy it is to become a media darling -- with a little help from CU.
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Hope for the Colorado Rockies Springs Eternal (5)
A What's So Funny special report from spring training in Tucson.
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Freddie's Not Dead
The CSO resurrects Queen.
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Really Free Speech
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Fight for Your Rights
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Lads and Lasses
Get your drink on at the "Paddy Wagon" Pub Crawl.
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First Impressions
A DAM exhibition finds a fresh way of looking at Impressionism.
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Denver Radio Legend Steve Keeney Retires
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Midget Mayhem
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SXSW: Denver Represents
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Vintage Q&A With Lil Jon
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Look of the Day - Matt and Jamie
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Converse Celebrates 100 Years
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Delegating Denver #35 of 56: New Mexico
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Nichols' Worth
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Settling the Score
The Denver Nuggets face off against the Boston Celtics.
By Mark Schiff
Published: February 14, 2008With both Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson starting in this weekend's All-Star game in New Orleans, it's easy to forget how far the Nuggets franchise has come in five short years. The season before Melo's arrival, Denver owned the worst record in the league, netting just seventeen wins and writing the coda to the "doormat era," in which the Nuggets went a horrendous 200-424 over eight seasons. Until Stan Kroenke's deep, Wal-Mart-laced pockets arrived in 2000, it was unfathomable that our team would contend for anything but the worst record in the NBA.
The Boston Celtics' revival has been even more sudden. The second-worst team in the league last year, the Celtics made off-season trades for Seattle's sharp-shooting Ray Allen and Minnesota's dominant Kevin Garnett. Now the Celtics own the best record in the NBA, and the trio of Allen, Garnett and Paul Pierce make up one of the most exciting rosters in the league.
Fresh from the All-Star break, the two rejuvenated teams will square off tonight at 7 p.m. at the Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, but you can also catch the game on the Altitude sports network. The discounted $10.75 tickets — courtesy of a promotion with radio station KS 107.5 — are sold out (check www.ks1075.com for future games), but truly desperate fans will be able to get not-so-discounted tickets courtesy of the shifty-looking guy milling around on Speer Boulevard (cash only, no refunds). And if a couple of Benjamins seems too steep for a pair of tickets, well, no one said success would come cheap. Visit www.nba.com/nuggets.
Tue., Feb. 19, 7 p.m., 2008
