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It’ll be an NBA Game 7 doubleheader to finish the weekend. The Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves will meet for their winner-take-all series finale Sunday at 6 p.m. MT, the league announced Friday night. The game at Ball Arena in downtown Denver will be broadcast on TNT and available for streaming on Max. The start time was dependent on the result of Game 6 between the Knicks and Pacers.

LAKEWOOD — If recent history is any indication, Cherokee Trail locked up the Class 5A boys team title by winning the 800-meter relay in historic fashion on Friday afternoon at Jeffco Stadium. The school that wins that event has captured the last five 5A team crowns and eight of the last 10.

Time and time again, the bar was raised. Peak-to-Peak’s Kourtney Rathke and The Classical Academy’s Anna Willis never blinked. Thirteen feet, the standing Class 3A state meet record in the pole vault? No sweat. How about 13 feet, 4 inches? No problem. And 13-4 or 13-7? Cleared without issue. 13-10? A worthy challenge conquered. Finally, their thrilling dual in the sun at Jefferson County Stadium late Friday afternoon in the CHSAA state track and field championships ended when they both missed on three attempts at 14-1.

It hasn’t been a great week for certainty about the future of the Avalanche roster. The Avs already had one key player — captain Gabe Landeskog — whose future contributions remain in question due to a long-term injury. But Valeri Nichushkin’s suspension and mandated return to the NHL-NHLPA Player Assistance Program has left Colorado with two of its highest-paid players as significant question marks for the 2024-25 season and beyond. One position on the roster where the Avs have significantly fewer questions than they did at the start of this season is the most important one.

DALLAS — If anyone turned off the television midway through Game 4 and avoided the events of last night, they’d likely assume the Colorado Avalanche’s season was over. It certainly looked bleak, given the news prior to the game Monday night and the Avs’ performance as the Dallas Stars dominated in a way that neither side had.

By DOUG FERGUSON (AP Golf Writer) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation. In a span of four hours, the top-ranked golfer in the world was arrested wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt, dressed in an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, returned to Valhalla Golf Club in golf clothes and made his 10:08 a.m.