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LetsGoDU: DU Stacks Second Signature Win in a Week, Denver 78-70 Over North Dakota State
Denver men’s basketball (12-7, 2-1) traveled to Fargo to take on the North Dakota State Bison Thursday night. The Pioneers had not beaten NDSU on the road since a home-and-home sweep in 2018. Despite 15 turnovers and a tough night for Tommy Brunner (except for a huge game-breaking tray in the final 1:09), Denver rode a red-hot Touko Tainamo with 21 points and 5 rebounds along with Jaxson Brenchley with 15 points and 6 rebounds. Ultimately, it was Denver’s defense that kept the Bison from making a field goal and four free throw makes in the final 4:23 to clinch the win.
In the first five minutes, the teams played even-up until a Tommy Bruner assist and dunk by Isaiah Carr along with a Pedro Sanvicente three-point-make gave DU a 9-4 edge. Denver held a 16-10 advantage at the official timeout spurred by four forced Bison turnovers. Denver held a five-point edge at the midway point of the half, led by Touko Tainamo’s 9 points. At 6:55, the Bison took their first lead, 23-22, on a looping shot over Isaiah Carr. An Isaiah Addo-Ankrah tray put DU up 29-25 with five minutes left following a Denver scoring run. NDSU’s Boden Skunberg kept NDSU close with several step-in jumpers near the paint with 10 points but Denver held back the Bison. As time ran down, NDSU got a defensive stop and bucket in the final seconds but Denver still led at the break, 37-34.
Denver shot 53.6% for the half to 44.8% for the Bison. Denver had 6 turnovers to 7 for the Bison.
Both teams came out cold from the field to start the second half and DU held a 5-point lead at the 17:51 media timeout. Two minutes later, the Bison cut the lead to one point, 41-40, with a step-back jumper by Thomas Wheeler. At 14:46 the Bison got their second lead 44-43 but Isaiah Carr countered with a dunk from a feed from Tommy Bruner. The teams exchanged buckets as Denver led by four, 53-49, at the nine-minute mark following a Tainamo hook. Fourteen turnovers by DU kept NDSU in the game and DU eventually trailed by one, 61-60, with five minutes left. At 3:16 Tyson Garff nailed a tray to give DU the lead, 65-64, to cap a 7-0 Pioneer run. A huge Bruner three-point dagar put DU up by four with one minute to go and followed that with two free throws to essentially salt the game, 74-68. NDSU missed their final shots and Pedro Lopez-Sanvicente finished with a dunk, 78-70, DU. Ultimately, it was the defensive effort down the stretch that ensured the win.
Denver shot 54% from the field with 9 steals, 6 blocks and 15 assists. Tyson Garff hit big shots (6 pts., 4 assists), Deandre Craig (5 pts., 5 assists) ran the offense for extended minutes and Isiah Carr (8 pts., 3 reb.) stuffed the middle and made key blocks. While Tainamo and Brenchley were Denver’s best players on the night, it was Tommy Bruner’s 15 points which included his three-point make at 1:09 that gave Denver breathing room down the stretch.
Next up is North Dakota on Saturday at 11:00 am MT at Grand Forks.
Denverites looking for a stellar cup of Joe don’t need to travel far to savor the flavor of excellent coffee.
That’s according to The World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops, a website that rates global hospitality establishments where coffee lovers can find better brew. The website recently announced its 2026 list of the best coffee shops in North America, Central America and the Caribbean and two local companies made the list.
Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters came in at No. 43, while Queen City Collective Coffee ranked No. 61. Not bad for a list that includes must-hit destinations in places like Guatemala and Costa Rica, which are known for their exports of coffee beans.
The World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops decided the ranking through a mix of nominations and voting by both the public and experts. Places were evaluated based on the quality of coffee served, barista expertise, ambiance, sustainability practices, and innovation among other criteria, according to the website.
Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters, which came on the scene in 2013, helped usher the so-called fourth wave of coffee locally, which focuses on honoring the beans’ agricultural roots and using techniques like pour-over to extract more flavor from each brew. The company started with a wholesale roastery and retail shop in Lakewood before expanding to Arvada through a merger with another company called Two Rivers, and later to Westminster. In 2022, Food and Wine magazine named Sweet Bloom’s Westminster locale the best coffee shop in Colorado.
Queen City Collective has certainly earned the popular vote among Mile High City coffee drinkers if the company’s expansion is an indication. Since opening its first retail location in 2018, in a spot shared with Novel Strand Brewing Co., Queen City has expanded to seven locations between Denver and surrounding suburbs, including Wheat Ridge and Aurora.
To see the full list of must-hit coffee shops across the globe, visit theworlds100bestcoffeeshops.com. For additional recommendations, check out our list of Colorado’s best coffee shops with picturesque patios and views.
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DENVER (KDVR) — With the mild winter and warm start to spring, beekeepers are seeing swarms earlier in the year and expect the season to be longer than usual.
Gregg McMahan is a dispatcher for the Colorado Swarm Hotline. It’s usually his job to send a beekeeper to collect a swarm when someone calls, but on Sunday afternoon, he decided to handle one himself.
“Nice little swarm,” McMahan said. “It’s tricky, though, because it’s hanging on a fence.”
A warm winter and spring mean swarm season has begun four weeks early.
“Never seen it like this ever,” McMahan said.
This call is to a house on Denver’s east side. When McMahan arrived, he saw a swarm had taken up residence on the fence.
“Absolutely typical, it is on the small side,” McMahan said.
He got to work, first luring them into a box when he spotted a good sign.
“See all these girls, they got their butts up, they’re fanning their wings. That’s telling us the queens in here,” McMahan said.
With the queen in hand, the rest began to follow her into the box.
McMahan said two years ago, he had 400 calls like this. Last year, only 100, the Swarm Hotline was as unpredictable as the weather, which has caused bee activity earlier in the year than ever.
“It makes it hard on the bees, you know? Two days ago, I’m collecting swarms in the snow,” McMahan said.
Rescuing them is integral to Colorado’s ecosystem. McMahan hopes people give a beekeeper a call instead of spraying them or harming them in any other way.
“They do a phenomenal amount of pollination within this state. Not only our native flowers but all the other flowers that people bring in,” McMahan said.
Slowly but surely, the swarm left the fence and moved into the box. McMahan loaded them into his truck to deliver them to their new home.
“Westminster to the Stanley Lake Wildlife Refuge, so these girls will have lakefront property tonight,” he said.
As he wrapped up, McMahan’s phone was buzzing more than the bees. Just another call to start a swarm season, he thinks, could be a long one.
“This year I’m already 20 swarms deep, so I’m expecting way more than 100 this year,” McMahan said.
To have a bee swarm removed for free from your property anywhere statewide, the Swarm Hotline number is 1-844-SPY-BEES.
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