🌱 Why Air Force hoops is hurting in today’s NIL-driven college game

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• Why Air Force hoops is hurting in today’s NIL-driven college game

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Today's riddle: The doctor told me to drink carrot juice after a hot bath. - Did it help? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Windy in the afternoon, with a high of 66 and low of 31 degrees.
• Thursday: Increasing clouds and cooler, temps: high: 50, low: 36.
• Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 67 and low of 45 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• SDSU hosts Air Force team that has had ‘horrendous' time in NIL era (modbee.com) — Air Force Academy basketball is struggling in the NIL and transfer era, with one of the nation’s youngest Division I rosters and no ability for cadets to cash in. Coach Joe Scott and players describe how strict service-academy rules, mandatory service commitments, and constant transfer losses leave the Falcons underdogs as they face San Diego State in Mountain West play.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Air Force Academy

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Thursday December 18

• Basketball: B/C-Squad
  Elizabeth High School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: B/JV
  Elizabeth High School
  5:30 pm
• Basketball: G/V
  Grand Junction High School
  6:00 pm
• Basketball: B/V
  Elizabeth High School
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday December 17

• Toddler Time
  Manitou Springs Library , 701 Manitou Ave. , Colorado Springs
  10:30 am
• Housing Advisory Board Regular Meeting
  Manitou Springs, CO Calendar , 606 Manitou Avenue , Manitou Springs
  5:30 pm

Friday December 19

• Third Friday Friends of PPLD Book Group
  Monument Branch Library , 1706 Lake Woodmoor Dr. , Monument
  10:30 am
• Idea Lab: Andy Warhol’s Recycled Tray Prints
  Monument Branch Library , 1706 Lake Woodmoor Dr. , Monument
  4:30 pm
• Woodland Park Panthers vs South Park Burros
  Woodland Park High School , 151 Panther Way , Woodland Park
  6:00 pm

Saturday December 20

• Decorated Sugar Cookie Workshop - Santa and Friends
  Pikes Peak Library District - Monument Library , 1706 Lake Woodmoor Dr , Monument
  1:00 pm
• Teen Dungeons and Dragons
  Monument Branch Library , 1706 Lake Woodmoor Dr. , Monument
  4:00 pm

Sunday December 21

• Fading Transmissions from a Republic of Ruins and Ghosts
  Sallie Bush Community Center , 10795 Ute Pass Ave , Green Mountain Falls
  2:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Monument

• Monument approves 150-home subdivision (gazette.com)
• These Colorado stores have sold winning tickets as Powerball surpasses $1 billion (kdvr.com)
• Colorado utilities companies bracing for high fire danger, damaging winds (gazette.com)

Manitou Springs

• Rockfall mitigation project to protect vehicles, pedestrians underway in Manitou Springs (krdo.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don’t know. I can never finish drinking the hot bath!
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