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Time brings perspective, even in the hot-button world of contemporary sports. So it is with the Rockies’ 2021 trade of star third baseman Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals. As word of the trade leaked out, Sports Illustrated wrote: “Years from now, what transpired in the baseball world on Jan. 29, 2021, will be remembered as the Friday Night Heist.

An early morning explosion in Douglas County sparked a fire that quickly engulfed a Sedalia home and RV, sheriff’s officials said. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of an explosion on Platte Avenue in Sedalia around 3:15 a.m. Saturday, the sheriff’s office said in a statement on social media. When deputies arrived on the scene, they found a house and an RV on fire.

A severe storm is sweeping across Colorado Saturday, bringing with it heavy rain, golf ball-sized hail and damaging winds, according to the National Weather Service. The greatest threat of severe weather hovers over the plains eastward of Greeley, but storms are expected to start around noon across Colorado, NWS forecasters said. Large hail of up to two inches in diameter — approximately golf ball-sized — and damaging winds of up to 75 mph are the main threats, forecasters said.

NCAA football nerds, unite! The final page of Phil Steele’s 2024 College Football Preview magazine went to press last Friday night. Steele said on his socials that the printed mag should be available via direct-mail order by the middle of this month and on newsstands around the third week of June. And the timing couldn’t be better.

By CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, RANDALL CHASE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press) WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Pictures of President Joe Biden’s son with drug paraphernalia and bare-chested in a bubble bath. Text messages between Hunter Biden and drug dealers. Testimony from Hunter’s exes about relationships destroyed by his drug use. Hunter Biden’s trial on gun charges brought by his father’s Justice Department has put on full display tawdry and embarrassing details about the president’s son, all while first lady Jill Biden watches from the courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware. Prosecutors on Friday rested their case accusing Hunter Biden of lying when he swore that he was not a drug user on a federal form to buy a gun in October 2018.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is becoming more and more mentally disturbed, and I have a theory why, which I explain in the video. But no matter the reason, this week she lost her mind threatening Dr. Fauci in hearings, tossing out profanities with a reporter, attacking her own party (it must be why they love her--they realy love her!) on soon-to-be jailed Steve Bannon. Marge is embarrassingly angry, even by the usual low standards we apply to her mental state.