Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson will miss Sunday’s game against the New York Jets because of a pulled hamstring, and backup Brett Rypien will get the start.
Wilson was ruled out Saturday, less than 24 hours after coach Nathaniel Hackett said he figured Wilson’s playing status would be a game-day decision.
This will mark Rypien’s second career start. His other one also was against the Jets, a 37-28 Denver win at the Meadowlands on Oct. 1, 2020, when he threw for two touchdowns and was intercepted three times.
Veteran Josh Johnson will be elevated from the practice squad to serve as Rypien’s backup when the Broncos (2-4) try to snap a three-game skid and end a three-game win streak for the Jets (4-2), who have already matched last year’s win total.
Rypien is a third-year pro who went undrafted after starring at Boise State, where he went 37-12 as the starting QB. He edged out Johnson in a training camp competition to serve as Wilson’s backup.
Rypien took the bulk of the snaps at practice this week although Wilson also got some work in with the starters.
Wilson pulled a hamstring during Monday night’s 19-16 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. That injury came nine days after he received an injection to relieve pain in a muscle near his throwing shoulder.
The only games Wilson has missed as a pro came during his final season in Seattle last year when he sat out three games with a broken finger.
He was traded to Denver in March for a package of players and picks and signed a five-year, $245 million extension with $165 million in guarantees, $50 million of that in the form of a signing bonus.
Wilson and Hackett, who replaced Vic Fangio in the offseason, are off to a tough start together in Denver. Hackett’s offense ranks last in the league in scoring and Wilson has thrown just five touchdown passes and been sacked 20 times.
This week Colorado’s two U.S. senators along with local leaders in the Pueblo area celebrated funding to secure clean water for a portion of the state. It’s part of a project that should help provide fresh water to more than 50,000 Coloradans.
The Arkansas Valley Conduit — a 130-mile pipeline project — is getting $60 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. A news release from Sen. Michael Bennet and Sen. John Hickenlooper described the conduit, a project that was started 60 years ago, as follows:
The AVC is a planned 130-mile water-delivery system from the Pueblo Dam to communities throughout the Arkansas River Valley in southeast Colorado.
President John F. Kennedy signed the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Act in 1962, authorizing the construction of what eventually will be the second largest water project in Colorado, (behind only the Colorado-Big Thompson). The diversion of Western Slope water originating in the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers near Aspen into Pueblo Reservoir was completed by 1982. But the last stretch reaching the smaller communities of Lamar and Eads — a portion that’s referred to as the Arkansas Valley Conduit — was put on hold due to funding and is only now getting close to completion.
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Communities along the Arkansas River east of Pueblo have to endure poor water quality due to naturally occurring radioactive contaminants such as radium and uranium, and also from surface water that contains harmful microorganisms and pollutants, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.
The AVC will deliver as much as 7,500 acre-feet of water from Pueblo Reservoir annually. Water will flow by gravity, with the exception of one pumping station in Eads.
Organizers also hope it will help with fighting future wildfires.
“So we’re not just fighting fires on the back end to the tune of $50,000 an acre, but were working with Chaffee County and other folks around the state to make sure we’re doing things on the front end,” Sen. Michael Bennet said at a news conference on Thursday.
This new funding will expedite the construction timeline for the AVC and allow for federal drinking water standards to be met more quickly by local water providers.
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Schanda Handley and her daughter, Isabella Cumberland, were at their home on a quiet street in Lafayette, Louisiana, on August 6, 2017, when two men appeared at their front door. At first glance they looked like deliverymen, which was a welcome interruption, since Handley had been anxiously awaiting a clothes steamer she had ordered.
“I was so excited,” Handley told David Begnaud, CBS News lead national correspondent and “48 Hours” contributor. “I was like, ‘Oh, my steamer.'”
Her joy was transformed into terror, when instead of dropping off a package, the two men held Handley at gunpoint, handcuffed her and threw her into the back of a van.
She recounted the details of her near-death experience to Begnaud in “The Kidnapping of Schanda Handley,” an all-new “48 Hours” airing Saturday, Oct. 22, at 10/9c on CBS, and streaming on Paramount+.
Schanda Handley was taken from her home at gunpoint by two people posing as deliverymen. It was a brazen kidnapping in the normally quiet suburban town of Lafayette, Louisiana. And it was not a random attackCBS News
“They hooded me as soon as I went into the van,” Handley said. “It was a van that didn’t have the windows in the back.”
Cumberland watched helplessly as the men sped off with her mother.
“As they’re driving away with her, did you think that was the last time you’d ever see her?” Begnaud asked Cumberland.
“I thought there was a chance,” Cumberland answered.
Handley said one of the abductors was straddling her in the back of the van, forcing pills into her mouth, while the other erratically drove them out of town. She recounted beginning to lose consciousness, as she says the men threatened to sexually assault and then kill her.
Her prayers were answered when Deputy Chad Martin with the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office — who had just clocked out of work and was unaware of Handley’s kidnapping nearly 60 miles away — spotted the van and attempted to make a traffic stop. The kidnappers exited the highway and tried to get away. After making a turn onto a dead-end road, they got stuck in the mud and continued to flee on foot. As Martin investigated the van, he discovered a barely conscious Handley in the back.
“She looked at me,” Martin recounted. “She said, ‘Are you the real police? Are you the one that’s gonna kill me?'”
Martin assured Handley that she was safe. A day later, her kidnappers’ remains were discovered in a waterway not far from where they had abandoned the van — having drowned as they attempted to escape. Even then, Handley believed that the mastermind behind the plot was still at large and a danger to her.
“She had said that she believed that her husband is the one that had paid them to kill her,” Martin recalls Handley telling him shortly after her rescue.
Michael and Schanda HandleySchanda Handley
Investigators began looking into Handley’s estranged husband, Michael Handley, and discovered that in the months leading up to the abduction, Schanda had called the police numerous times on Michael, and had even been granted a restraining order. They also found a rapidly accumulating list of evidence pointing to his involvement in the kidnapping itself. They learned he had rented the van a day before the abduction, and had also purchased the handcuffs used to restrain Handley during it. He was arrested after a four-day manhunt. He was charged with multiple kidnapping counts, as well as conspiracy to commit second-degree murder.
Then, as prosecutors were building their case, Schanda made a damning discovery of her own while she was cleaning out a remote property the couple owned in Mississippi. It was a camera that Michael had been using for security. But, with a motion activated recording feature, it turns out he had accidentally turned the camera on himself.
“All put together, what did the camera record?” Begnaud asked Schanda.
“I mean, hundreds of hours,” she responded.
Prosecutor Kenny Hebert watched the months’ worth of video documenting the time leading up to the kidnapping. Hebert said that on at least one occasion, Michael was recorded expressing how his wife needed to die. In a video clip from just two weeks before the abduction, Michael was caught on camera with one of the kidnappers, Sylvester Bracey, planning Schanda’s abduction while they chatted in the living room of the Mississippi property, Hebert said.
“[Michael Handley] specifically says, ‘It’s almost impossible for anyone to get in here,'” Hebert said. “To which Bracey responds, ‘And it’ll be impossible for her to get out.'”
Michael Handley, right, is caught on camera with one of the kidnappers, Sylvester Bracey, prosecutors say, planning Schanda’s abduction.15th Judicial Court
On top of the other physical evidence, Hebert said, they now had documented proof Michael had plotted Shanda’s kidnapping — theorizing his ultimate plan was to have her killed.
“I thought, ‘I must have done somethin’ right in the world,'” Hebert said about the video evidence.
In July of 2021, Michael Handley pleaded guilty to second-degree kidnapping, and was later sentenced to 35 years in prison. A small relief to Schanda, who said she fears the day her now ex-husband will eventually walk out of prison.
“I’d rather he never get out,” Schanda said. “Once Michael’s out, I’m no longer free.”
Despite popular opinion, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Jaguar 420 was not named after the number of blackbirds that could be baked in a pie. Let’s see if it’s priced so that only a bird brain would buy it.
The 1995 Dodge Viper ST/10 we looked at yesterday was painted in a rare emerald green from the factory. Many of you commented that the color’s rarity was for good reason, noting that it wouldn’t be your first choice for the iconic sports car. At a $39,500 asking, that color couldn’t quell lust for the Viper’s other, baser attributes, earning the asp a narrow but decisive 60 percent Nice Price win.
Today’s 1967 Jaguar 420 is also green, albeit a shade that’s more minty than British Racing Green. It does raise a bit of a conundrum: whether classic saloons have the same cachet as old sports cars.
Jaguar debuted the 420 at the London Motor Show in October of 1966. The model is based on the concurrent S-Type, itself a derivation of the earlier and popular Mark 2. As with both of those cars, the 420 carried a twin-carb version of Jag’s stellar DOHC inline-six under its bonnet. Like the S-Type, it feeds the engine’s power through an independent rear suspension similar to (but with a wider track) that of the XKE.
Leaves … leave now. his lightweight but powerful motor runs on a rechargeable battery, and includes two tubes for maximum reach.
At the time of its production—1966 through 1968—the 420 would be one of four sedan models offered by Jaguar, the highest number in the marque’s history, even to today. And that doesn’t even count the badge-engineered Daimler models. All of those Jag saloons would eventually be replaced by the XJ series with the culling beginning in 1968.
The 420 name references the 4.2-liter edition of the Jag six that was fitted to the car and not a mystical marijuana reference nor, as noted above, the quantity of pie-bound blackbirds made famous in Sing a Song of Sixpence (and yes, I know that four and twenty means 24, not 420, but work with me, it’s a good pun). The name also allowed Jaguar to align the model with the larger 420G which was a re-named version of the existing Mark X.
This 420 has 66,000 miles on the clock. Amazingly, it comes with its original importer sales sheet denoting its options as the Borg Warner 3-speed automatic, clever Marles Varamatic power steering, chromed wire wheels, original whitewall tires, and tinted glass.
The ad describes the car as a one-owner time capsule and claims it to be in “as found condition,” touting that “No attempt has been made to tart the car up as it would diminish it in the eyes of real collectors of survivor vehicles.” The Willow Green paint still seems to be serviceable and the car rolls on what are likely its original wire wheels. Wrapping the wires are, yes, whitewall tires.
Those wheels are knock-offs meaning that they mount on a splined hub and are held in place with a spin-on cap not that they are knock-offs made by some other company.
Jag cabins from the ’60s can be splendid and this one is no exception. The wood, leather, and plastics all look to be in great shape and without issue. Under the bonnet, the engine looks to have all its parts although it needs some spit and polish.
As noted, this is the 4.2 liter, twin-carb version of the six. That was factory rated at 245 horsepower (gross) which equates to something like 200 net. That’s not bad for a car of this era, especially when considering that a contemporary Ford 289 V8 with a four-barrel carb made 225 horses. For maintenance, the car comes with its complete tool kit in the boot, resting comfortably in the grip of the spare tire well.
According to the ad, the car is a “Terrific running and driving example” and comes with a clean title and current registration. The question on everybody’s mind, of course, is what should something like this reasonably go for?
That brings us back to the debate over sedans versus sports cars when it comes to spending cold hard cash. Does this classic Jag lose points for being a saloon? Or, is it exciting and engaging enough to be desirable in its own right? More to the point, is its $17,450 asking price in alignment with that desirability?
What do you say, could this Jag command that $17,450 asking as it sits? Or, does that price put the cat back in the bag?
You decide!
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