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Gordon: Will keep fighting to stay Broncos top RB
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos working again Melvin Gordon III believes most individuals have already designated Javonte Williams because the group’s prime again, however Gordon mentioned Monday he is not prepared, or keen, to give up his probability on the job.
“I instructed [Broncos general manager George Paton] once I was on the [negotiating] desk, I am not going to put down, I am not going to put down,” Gordon mentioned. ” … I’ve all the time received that mindset that I’ve received to go get it yearly.
“I do know lots of people need me to take the backseat and I get it,” Gordon added. “It has been like that for some time, it was like that with the Chargers — everyone needed Austin [Ekeler] to begin. I simply come out right here and do my factor. Thanks for the motivation everyone, I admire y’all.”
Monday was the primary day of the Broncos’ obligatory minicamp, so it was additionally the primary time Gordon had practiced together with his teammates. Gordon has not attended any of the voluntary parts of the group’s offseason program, together with a voluntary minicamp the Broncos had final month — groups with new teaching staffs are allowed to have an additional minicamp of their offseason.
Gordon signed a one-year deal to return to the Broncos simply earlier than the NFL draft in April. He had mentioned when the 2021 season drew to an in depth he hoped to seek out doubtlessly an even bigger workload with one other group in free company.
Final season, Gordon and Williams every had 203 carries and Gordon led the group with 918 yards speeding to Williams’ 903 yards. Gordon battled hip, shoulder and thumb accidents down the stretch, however missed only one sport this previous season — the Broncos’ Week 13 loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
And after ready it out over a month in free company, he opted to return to the Broncos, with Williams and fellow working again Mike Boone within the new teaching workers’s plans as nicely.
“I put my greatest foot ahead each time I am going on the market and see what occurs,” Gordon mentioned. “The aim is to make them need to play me … Me and [Williams] are going to do it. I do not know the way they are going to do the reps and all that … I do not care how outdated individuals assume I am getting, I really feel good. I have been sharing the ball since I received within the league, so that is nothing new.”
Williams, who had labored on the No. 1 again in a lot of the group’s on-field work up to now within the offseason, was the Broncos’ second-round choose within the 2021 draft and was named to the league’s All-Rookie group following the season.
Williams mentioned earlier this offseason he has constantly stored in contact with Gordon and that “if I’ve to separate carries, or if I am the starter, it would not matter. No matter it’s, I am simply making an attempt to win the Tremendous Bowl.”
Gordon mentioned he arrived again in Denver final week and did spend a while within the group’s facility, however didn’t take part in any of the on-field work earlier than Monday’s observe.
Gordon mentioned the Broncos’ commerce to amass quarterback Russell Wilson was “a game-changer” in his resolution to re-sign with the Broncos with none ensures about taking part in time. He additionally referred to as coach Nathaniel Hackett “a cool dude … he is actually modified the ambiance round right here.”
“We’re excited to place him in there and watch him roll,” Hackett mentioned Monday. ” … He is a spectacular working again, he is been an important working again on this league for a very long time and you may’t have too many working backs.”
Gordon has rushed for six,144 yards and 53 touchdowns and has 284 receptions for two,244 yards and 14 touchdowns in seven seasons.
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Over 400 flights delayed Tuesday amid high winds at Denver International Airport
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More than 400 flights were delayed Tuesday afternoon at Denver International Airport as high winds blew across the area, according to flight tracking data from FlightAware.
There were 406 flights delayed and five canceled as of 5:20 p.m. as wind gusts at the airport hit 43 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., 70 flights were delayed and one was canceled, according to live flight tracking by FlightAware’s Misery Map.
United, Alaska Airlines, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Key Lime Air, SkyWest, WestJet, American Airlines and Air Canada all had delayed or canceled flights.
Southwest had nearly half of the delayed flights, with 168 delays and one cancellation. United delayed 128 flights, according to FlightAware.
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Did you know: Almost $1 million in coins pass through the Denver Mint every day
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DENVER (KDVR) – From the outside, the Denver Mint may be just another two-story government office across from Civic Center Park. But inside the Cherokee Street building, staff and machinery are busy pressing metal coils into millions of coins per day.
According to the Mint, it’s one of two facilities responsible for making circulating coins in the United States – making it a huge part of the nation’s coin flow.
According to Tom Fesing with the Denver Mint, the facility produces roughly 4.5 million coins every 24 hours. Fesing estimates that about $750,000 to $1 million has gone through the facility each day this year.
That said, the Mint can’t exactly predict how much is going to be produced throughout the year as the number of coins depends on the orders the Mint receives monthly from the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, Fesing said.
Despite the millions of dollars in coins passing through, Fesing said the coin with the lowest value, the penny, has historically had the most production.
Those numbers depend on how many coins are needed for cash transactions in the economy, according to Fesing.
“When someone gets back a cent in change, what happens to them? They usually end up in piggy banks, or in a jar, and they’re not introduced into circulation as fast as, let’s say, a quarter or a dime,” Fesing said.
While the Mint can’t predict the numbers for the end of this year, it has produced almost 1.3 billion coins this year, with almost 800 million being pennies. In 2023, the Mint produced around 5.65 billion coins for the entire year.
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US ambassador visits conflict-ridden Mexican state to expedite avocado inspections
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MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — United States Ambassador Ken Salazar praised Mexico’s effort protect American agricultural inspectors in the conflict-ridden state of Michoacan on Monday, a week after the U.S. suspended avocado and mango inspections following an attack on inspectors.
Salazar traveled to the state, plagued by violence linked to organized crime, to meet with state and federal officials.
Earlier this month, two employees of the U.S. Agriculture Department were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in Mexico’s biggest avocado-producing state, prompting the U.S. government to suspend inspections.
The diplomat told the press that last Friday that Michoacan authorities had agreed to a security plan to restart avocado exports. “We are going to continue working on this,” he added.
The U.S. said that inspections in Michoacan would resume gradually.
Mexico played down the attacks, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to work with the United States to guarantee the safety of inspectors.
Many avocado growers in Michoacan say drug gangs threaten them or their family members with kidnapping or death unless they pay protection money, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars per acre.
There have also been reports of criminal groups trying to sneak avocados grown in other states that are not approved for export through U.S. inspections.
In February 2022, the U.S. government suspended inspections of Mexican avocados for about a week after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Michoacan received a threatening message.
Later that year, Jalisco became the second Mexican state authorized to export avocados to the U.S.
The latest pause won’t stop Michoacan avocados that are already in transit from reaching the U.S.
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