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Tad Boyle probably would be the first person to say an NCAA Tournament bid isn’t assured until Colorado sees its name in the 68-team bracket on Selection Sunday. Yet the Buffaloes understood the three-game homestand scheduled to complete the regular season offered a huge opportunity to cement those credentials for the Big Dance. And on Thursday night, the Buffs got that final homestand started by looking every bit like an NCAA Tournament team. Powered by a torrid shooting performance from Jeriah Horne and another memorable game from point guard McKinley Wright IV, the Buffs never trailed after USC converted the game’s opening basket, dominating the 19th-ranked Trojans for an 80-62 win at the CU Events Center. The victory keeps alive the Buffs’ slim but very real chance at landing the top seed at the Pac-12 Conference tournament and gave CU its third consecutive regular season sweep of the Trojans. The win also gave CU its 12th conference win, the program’s most since joining … [Read more...] about Hot shooting, strong defense power CU Buffs to thorough win over No. 19 USC

Go ahead, tell Charlie Blackmon he’s stuck way out in right field for a baseball team without a clue and the Rockies are doomed to the colossal failure of a 100-loss season. But be forewarned. It’s going to make Chuck Nazty sunflower seed-spitting mad. “Personally, I don’t really care what anybody else thinks about me or the team. I don’t,” Blackmon said Wednesday, during a video conference with reporters. “I don’t you think you guys have any …” Ruh-roh. Calling this a lost baseball season in LoDo before it begins gets Nazty so irked that on video it was plain to see the chip on his shoulder grow as big as his beard. Think the Rockies are doomed to stink? “You don’t have as much an idea as I do and the people inside the clubhouse. Let’s just say that’s fair. So I don’t really let what people think outside the clubhouse affect what I do inside the clubhouse,” Blackmon insisted. “If I were to let the fact some member of the national media says we’re going to stink this year … [Read more...] about Kiszla: Tell him life after Nolan Arenado will stink and Charlie Blackmon will say you have rocks in your head

A federal judge in California has approved a $650 million settlement in 2015 a class-action lawsuit against Facebook over its use of photo face-tagging. U.S. District Judge James Donato called the settlement a “landmark result” in a court filing on Friday, and said “it will put at least $345 into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated.” “Overall, the settlement is a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy,” Donato wrote. ADVERTISEMENT The case centered around Facebook’s “tag suggestions” program, which identifies people’s faces in photographs uploaded to the platform for user tagging. According to background provided in the court filing, the plaintiffs alleged that the platform used and stored digital scans of their faces without prior notice or consent, in violation of Illinois privacy laws. Attorney Jay Edelson, who originally filed the suit in Illinois in April 2015, told The Chicago Tribune that the … [Read more...] about Judge approves $650M settlement in photo-tagging lawsuit against Facebook

Our year of Wuhan. We have endured unspeakable hardships and pain. We have seen the very best in people. We have seen the worst in people. All of our successes — even our very survival — have come from the wise humanity of individuals looking out for one another. Family, neighbors, parents, nurses, roommates, doctors, and complete strangers displaying heroic kindness and compassion in a sea of real agony and crazed hysteria. The selfless sacrifice of the individual has been the lone beacon of hope throughout even the darkest moments of this storm. The failures, meanwhile, have been every bit as startling. And they are everywhere. Our government — and every institution established by our government to protect us — failed at every step of the way. Federal agencies that exist only to protect Americans from these very public health risks failed to detect the virus before it reached our shores. Then they ignored early signs of just how devastating it could be. And even once … [Read more...] about Charles Hurt: Revealed: The Answer to The Pandemic Is the American Individual