Where Adelman has made his biggest difference is by not politicizing young players like Watson, Pickett and Nnaji. Malone seemed bent on proving to Booth they could not play, and sprinkled in their minutes so sparingly it set them up to fail.

Thomas Payton worked in insurance. Casualty claims, specifically. Because of that, Sean Payton thinks, his father raised him as with as little danger as possible.

“For that to happen to me was just really weird,” he mused. “Very, very weird.”

Parker Kelly knows what it is like to be a member of the Ottawa Senators when times are tough.

Dig in at Denver mainstays like the Rocky Top Tavern, the Piper Inn and the Campus Lounge.

That hit, Pat Bryant’s asked, isn’t in the back of your head?