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98-year-old CU Buffs fan reflects on historic start to football season

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. -- There have been just three games in the Coach Prime era, but it’s already been a wild ride for University of Colorado Boulder fans. That’s especially true for Peggy Coppom.The 98-year-old has had a front row seat to all the excitement as NFL legend Deion Sanders has catapulted a losing team to the talk of the college sports world.“It’s unbelievable to me that all this is happening,” said Coppom.She is among the most well-known ambassadors for the CU Buffs. For decades, Coppom has been attending football games and sporting events from beginning to end, no matter the weather or score. Time is running out to apply for Denver’s housing lottery Her relentless commitment has earned deep admiration from Coach Prime.So much so, he invited Peggy to the field for the spring game in front of a sold-out crowd for the kickoff.“If you want to know the truth, I kept saying, Jesus help me all the way out there because I’ve never kicked a football in my life,” said Coppom.Then af...

New animated series ‘Young Love’ features voices of Issa Rae and Kid Cudi

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

The hit animated short film “Hair Love” is getting a Part Two, this time in a new animated series called “Young Love.”The show features of the voices of stars like Issa Rae and rapper Kid Cudi.Kid Cudi (as Stephen Love, voice): “Hey, guys. My name is Stephen, and I’m a music producer.”Issa Rae (as Angela Young, voice): “And I’m a very talented hair stylist, but most importantly, we’re parents, and we’re a family.” Brooke Monroe Conaway (as Zuri Young Love, voice): “Dad, will you play something already?”From the mind of Oscar-winning short film “Hair Love” creator Matthew A. Cherry is a new animated series, “Young Love.”Issa Rae (as Angela Young, voice): “What is this all about?”Kid Cudi (as Stephen Love, voice): “Modern problems require modern solutions.”Character in “Young Love”: “Why have you got grill marks on the back of your shirt...

Teammates, staff visit Homestead Senior High football player recovering in hospital after devastating game injury

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

A group of high school students and staff delivered a show of solidarity to a student athlete who is recovering in the hospital and is facing a tough road ahead after he suffered a devastating injury on the field.7News cameras captured a school bus pulling into HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Thursday afternoon. Inside were around 60 football players and staff from Homestead Senior High School.Their mission: to deliver a large “get well soon” banner, filled with dozens of signatures and well wishes, to Homestead Bronco player Frederick Climpson.“Get well, Fred, and all the signatures from people at the school, from students at the school. Like, it was a very touching moment,” said Curtis Brown, the school’s athletic director.Students went up to visit their friend and teammate.“It was nice to see students gather around and express their sentiments, their well wishes,” said Samuel Louis, the school’s principal. “They even led prayer ...

81-year-old Boca Raton resident saved after Apple Watch alerts her

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

A Boca Raton grandmother credited her Apple Watch and neighbors with saving her life.Eighty-one-year-old Edy Subarsky has atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib, and she said that night she felt absolutely fine.But that’s not what her Apple Watch said.“It was telling me to get help, ‘alert.’ I mean, it just did everything,” she said.Everything but call for help. That’s when her neighbor, Jorden Tepper. came in.“I said, ‘I’ll call you in 10 minutes and make sure you’re OK,’ so immediately I hang up the phone and I call 911,” said Tepper. “I thought that was it, I really thought it was over,” Subarsky said. “I got to the hospital, and they were saying, ‘Stat, stat.'”The grandmother spent five days in the hospital and left with a brand-new pacemaker, with help from her Florida family.“I couldn’t lift my arm for a month or drive,” she said. “All my friends did m...

France and Germany give new push to joint next-generation battle tank 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

ÉVREUX, France — Germany and France pledged on Thursday to move their joint next-generation battle tank forward by the end of the year. French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu and his German counterpart Boris Pistorius met at the Évreux-Fauville Air Base — where a joint Franco-German tactical airlift squadron has been located since 2021 — to give new political impetus to the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) after years of delays. “The pace was slowed down and now we’re speeding up,” Pistorius told reporters after the meeting. By the end of this year, Paris and Berlin will define the different pillars and the leading country for each of them, he said: “Next year, I hope we’ll get to the decisive stage of signing the contract, which may allow others to join the project.” Both ministers declined to provide details on the pillars. The MGCS was launched in 2017 by French President Emmanuel Macron and then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel as ...

Milford’s multi-skilled Nick Araujo does it all

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

MILFORD — When Nick Araujo was in youth football for Milford as a seventh grader, the now-senior kicked his first field goal in an organized game. It came against Mansfield, and Milford reached the 25-yard line, from which the coach had the confidence to kick with Araujo.“Believe it or not, it just sailed through,” said Araujo, who added, “and had a good amount of leg, too.”Since coming to the high school, Araujo has been the team’s kicker since his freshman year. But that is only the beginning of his contributions to the Scarlet Hawks. He has started at linebacker since his sophomore year. Last year, he was the second running back to Romeo Holland. And now Araujo starts at running back, strongside linebacker, kicker, and punter.But more than just the sum of his positions, Araujo represents an example of the ascent of Milford football. In many ways, he is the quintessential Scarlet Hawks football player: big, tough, hard-nosed, and smart.“You give...

Before Gillette show, enjoy a Stevie Nicks binge

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

In 2006, Paste magazine put Fleetwood Mac at No. 83 on its list of 100 Best Living Songwriters. Not Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie or Lindsey Buckingham at No. 83, but the all three bundled into a single slot at the tail end of a long list dominated by dudes.Now any list like this is purely subjective, but, c’mon? Really? Lumped together the members of Mac can’t make the Top Ten? Stevie can’t even crack the Top 50 on her own?For decades, these lists — often led by Rolling Stone — have tried to turn the subjective opinions of male writers into an objective truth about the superiority of male artists. As Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner made clear this week, too many men can’t listen to female artists without thinking, “Oh, this is fine, but it sure ain’t Dylan or Jagger or Springsteen or ZZ Top or…” (Earlier this week, Wenner told a New York Times reporter that women and people of color weren’t “articulate enough on (an) intellectual level” to discuss rock ‘n’ roll).Wenner and his pe...

Hank Phillippi Ryan part of Cold War history in ‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

Of the many stories of the CIA’s Cold War efforts against Russia, “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” stands out for its larger-than-life-sized James Bond  flavor.In 1968 a nuclear-powered Russian sub sank with its 98-man crew in the Pacific.  In ‘69 the CIA hatched a seemingly impossible idea: They would build a ship with a hollow interior, equip it with a “grabber” that could go to the ocean bottom and carry the sub back into the ship and uncover many Russian secrets.The ship was finished in 1973 with a cover story that it was owned by the notoriously eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. He was deep-sea oil drilling.Unfortunately, by 1975 with the ocean retrieval in progress, major upheavals shook the secretive agency: In the fallout from Watergate, CIA secrets were no longer secret.CIA black ops crimes were being exposed by legendary newsmen Jack Anderson and Seymour Hersch.  When the newsmen got hints on the CIA and the Russian sub, the Agency pleaded they not reveal anything.“Neither Co...

Editorial: Biden downshifts on UAW strike; Trump steps up

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

Joe Biden has long made a meal out of his blue-collar credentials – his working class family in Scranton, hard times when his father struggled to find work. He’s also waved the union flag high, telling an audience in June that “I meant what I said when I said I’m going to be…the most pro-union president in American history. And I make no apologies for it. “So why is former President Donald Trump planning to visit striking UAW workers in Michigan next week, and not Biden?“Trump scooped us. Now if we announce we’re going, it looks like we’re just going because of Trump,” a national Democratic strategist told Politico. “We waited too long. That’s the challenge.”As they say, you snooze, you lose.It’s not just that Biden has so far stayed away from Michigan (East Palestine, Ohio knows how they feel), but the White House is dithering over sending any top tier officials there.On Tuesday, the administration scrapped its plan to have two Biden aides head to Detroit this wee...

Enyart: VA ambulance funding cut would hurt veterans

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:11 GMT

Unless stopped, the Department of Veterans Affairs is set to knock over a domino that may drastically harm veterans’ health care and then spread to the general community.In a cost-cutting measure on track to take effect early next year, the VA plans to sever a critical link between veterans and medical facilities by significantly slashing reimbursements for the ambulances that transport them. Today, many veterans rely on ambulances for transportation because they are staffed by emergency medical technicians trained to monitor their medical condition.Too many veterans simply do not have the financial resources or the support network necessary to arrange and pay for transportation to a medical facility where treatment is provided. Confronted with costs that run into thousands of dollars, many or our neediest veterans may simply forgo receiving care.Veterans in rural areas will be most affected because a disproportionate number of our service people come from rural places where a trip ...