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Bears second-round OT Ozzy Trapilo said fellow OTs Kiran Amegadjie and Braxton Jones have done a great job of taking him under their wing and helping him get up to speed.

“They’re both fantastic guys,” Trapilo said, via Bears Wire. “The whole O-line is really incredible. Coming in, you don’t know how it’s going to be. [But] everyone is such a good guy. [If] you have a question, they’ll go out of their way to help you. That’s for the entire room, [including] the tackle position. I’ve been really happy about that.”

Lions DE Aidan Hutchinson is returning from a season-ending broken tibia and fibula in his left leg. Detroit GM Brad Holmes said the edge rusher has looked great in their offseason program, while he’s also been impressed by players like Marcus Davenport and Al-Quadin Muhammad.

“Aidan looks great, man. He’s been out there in OTAs. Really didn’t expect anything else,” Holmes said via Rainer Sabin of the Detroit Free Press. “You never truly, truly know. You don’t have a crystal ball. But just knowing how that guy’s wired and how he attacks things and how tuned he is with his body, it did not surprise me. I mean he’s out there. He looks explosive. He’s changing direction. I mean he looks really good, man.

“And then we brought back Marcus Davenport on a one-year deal. He was playing really good football for us before he unfortunately got hurt. And so hopefully he gets better luck on his side. He’s been out there, and I would say he looks good, man. His body is feeling great. His body looks great, man. And he had a good summer as well in terms of the OTAs. And then we brought Al-Quadin Muhammad back that we signed last year, who logged some good snaps for us, played good football. Plays hard. He’s physical. He’ll set edges, man. He plays with a lot of effort.”

Holmes projected confidence about the team’s situation at edge rusher even if it seems like they once again might not have a true complement for Hutchinson, pointing to potential development from sixth-round DE Ahmed Hassanein.

“He has some work to do from a developmental standpoint, just like they all do. But he’s not just some fish out of water, just raw, don’t know what he’s doing out there. I mean when you look at his production he had, in terms of sacks and pressures the past two years, he had the most production out of all the edge rushers in that class, and it just so happens he plays with his hair on fire. So, we feel good about where we’re at at that position.”

Packers WR Romeo Doubs has gotten a strong first impression of first-round WR Matthew Golden this offseason thus far.

“Oh, man. Kid’s a stud,” Doubs said, via Ryan Wood. “Doesn’t say much, but he just comes in and works. He’s been real consistent in that area…kid is playing fast right now, so I’m excited to see it.”

Packers HC Matt LaFleur reiterated that Golden is proving to have a strong work ethic.

“I like his approach, how he comes to work every day,” LaFleur said. “He gives great effort, his attitude has been outstanding, and obviously he’s a talented young player. Still has a lot to learn, but he’s shown improvement every day.”

The staff at Etc Hospitality in Golden can't suppress their joy at their soon-to-open natural medicine healing center. The busload of visitors, many of whom don't live in states or countries with legal psychedelic therapies, are ecstatic as well.

Industry professionals from the United States and beyond — an ayahuasca facilitator from the U.K., a psychedelic journalist from Brazil, a Muslim shroom cultivator, a Brooklyn-based reporter for Law360, among others — hopped on a bus the day before the annual MAPS Psychedelic Science convention in downtown Denver kicked off to take a sneak peek at one of Colorado's new natural medicine healing centers offering psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy.

Short for "etcetera," Etc hopes to begin providing psilocybin therapy by July or August, according to cofounder Erik Vaughan, who's also the proprietor of Epiphany Mushrooms, an Ohio-based culinary mushroom cultivator.

"This is a really long journey that we're on," he says. "We're eager to get started, but also in no hurry."

The space, in a nondescript stretch of Golden Road near Quaker Street, feels as if it has a cosmic hum when you walk inside, with a green, shrubbery-coated wall reading "etc," a kinetic sculpture blending revolutions of separate arrays, and a display of books on a thin shelf, including Be Here Now by Ram Dass and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Beyond the reception area lies an office where natural medicine will be locked up once the facility goes operational, and the doors to the sanctuary, a grand room painted a gentle steel blue with wooden accent shelves, couches and poofy brown chairs and ottomans; there's also yoga mats, zafus, incense, Tibetan singing bowls and a small cart of art supplies tucked off to the side.

For Vaughn, it's all about creating a space that represents the end goal of psilocybin therapy.

"We have a chance, in broad daylight, to show the safety and efficacy of psilocybin mushrooms — and not only track the adverse outcomes, which are very important to understand, but also track and understand the profoundly positive outcomes that we see: the healing, the growth, the profound personal transformation that takes place in these journeys," Vaughan tells visitors while walking through the facility.

Etc had more than a half-dozen of its professional facilitators onsite for the preview, including doctors, therapists, and social workers, who will guide patients through psilocybin-assisted therapy in one-on-one or group settings.

Vaughan says Etc was the twentieth healing center to apply with the state, and expects approval soon. The Center Origin in Denver was the first healing center to be licensed, but until a testing facility was licensed and came online in late May, licensed providers had no medicine to provide.

According to the Department of Revenue's Natural Medicine Division, two standard healing center licenses and nine micro healing center licenses have been issued to date. The testing lab was the last missing element for centers to begin providing psilocybin-assisted therapy, and those eleven licensed facilities can now provide services. The first legal psilocybin patients in Colorado have already had their first experiences in the past month or so.

Etc won't be accepting walk-ins, but it's already offering free consultations in advance of its licensure via its website. Would-be patients must be 21 or older, and in that free consultation an intake specialist will do an exclusionary screening, Vaughan says. People who are pregnant, breastfeeding or taking lithium cannot undergo the psilocybin therapy, and other physical and mental factors taken into consideration, as well.

"This isn't for everyone, and it's not for all seasons," Vaughan tells Westword.

Pricing will begin at $3,450 for an individual, or $2,200 per person for a group of four. Patients accepted to the facility will do a minimum of two one-on-one remote prep sessions with a licensed facilitator before the day of their journey. On the dosing day, patients will have the facility along with facilitators and handlers from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. After the experience, a patient will have a minimum of one one-on-one virtual integration sessions within a couple days of their journey, and access to six months of virtual group integration sessions.

Though there were no psychedelics on hand for the tour, Dr. Jana Lomax, clinical director of the center, offered an example of guidance patients will receive as they "journey" through their psychedelic experiences:

"You may find that you have feelings of loss of yourself, experience a sensation of rebirth, or even death. You may experience a feeling that you have ceased to exist as an individual and are now connected with the world or the universe. If you experience a sensation of dying, melting, dissolving, exploding, going crazy, etcetera, go ahead. Experience that experience," Lomax says. " Trust that whatever comes up in your journey needs to come up, even if you do not fully understand it. ...When approaching challenging experiences or appearances or forms of beings or phenomena, ask what they are there to teach you, or to show you, and then see if you can thank them for what messages they have to offer."

The collected attendees had mostly closed their eyelids for Lomax's talk, immersing themselves in the language of therapeutic psychedelic treatment, which caused a near-placebo affect for those envisioning what the new framework for psychedelic therapy will allow.

As will be the norm when natural medicine healing centers are fully open in the state, Lomax and her staff placed heavy emphasis on the integration work that comes after a therapeutic psychedelic experience, calling it "where the work actually takes place in our lives."

"Someone may leave and opt not to do their integration work, and they'll probably experience some change," she acknowledges. "But if they're really going to make that change stick throughout their life and ripple into the other folks in their lives, it's the commitment to integration [that matters]."

Bears first-round TE Colston Loveland talked about how HC Ben Johnson plans on scheming him open and his diverse playbook.

“He’s got a crazy mind, so he’s got all types of stuff, all types of concepts,” Loveland said, via Bears Wire. “...It’s definitely a step up and it’s another level. I love it so far. I’m seeing tight ends run all different kind of routes, doing a bunch of different stuff in the run game. So, yeah, I’m loving it. I’m just ready to get out there and go to work.”

Packers first-round WR Matthew Golden is confident in playing multiple positions and said he will do whatever he can in order for the team to win a Super Bowl.

“Just my versatility, what I can do, I can play anywhere on the field,” Golden said, via Around The NFL. “Just doing what the team needs me to do. That’s what I did at Texas and that’s what I’m going to continue to do. Just being in the position to play for the Green Bay Packers, man, it means so much to me.”

Golden discussed what he needed to do in order to gain the trust of QB Jordan Love as the newest member of the receiving core.

“It’s going to be what it’s supposed to be, you know, over time, you got to build, you got to gain his trust,” Golden said of building a rapport with his QB. “So, for me, it’s just going out there, you just put my best foot forward each and every day and just allowing him to know that I’m going to be right where I need to be. So, I just feel like for me it’s going happen over time.”

Minnesota signed CB Isaiah Rodgers to a two-year, $15 million deal this offseason after he spent four seasons with the Colts and Eagles. Vikings DC Brian Flores talked about his interest in Rodgers since his college days because of his mental understanding of the game.

“He’s been on my radar since he was at UMass,” Flores said, via Cole Smith of the Vikings Wire. “When the opportunity presented itself that we could maybe acquire him, I was all in. I’m happy we got him. He’s got great football IQ and acumen. That’s something we’ve stressed.”

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US AIR FORCE ACADEMY — Twenty-two years ago, Mark Melancon celebrated on the mound at All-City Field as Golden High School won the school’s first state baseball title.

Fast-forward to Saturday afternoon at Erdle Field at the Air Force Academy. Senior shortstop Jaydon Stroup fielded a bouncing ball and fired it to senior Luca Casali for the final out, giving the Demons their second Class 4A baseball state championship with a 5-1 victory against Cheyenne Mountain.

“I don’t have a lot of words right now. Less than usual,” the soft-spoken Stroup said moments after fielding the final out and throwing it over to Casali at first base. “It felt good to win the game, make the last play. It just feels really good.”

The 2003 state championship team had to defeated Mountain View twice on a Saturday in Denver to claim the state title. Melancon — who went on to a 14-year MLB career as a relief pitcher and four-time All-Star, along with a two-time NL saves leader — got the win on the mound in the first game against Mountain View. His cousin, Luke Roberts took the victory on the hill in the second game before Melancon closed out the game.

This time around, it was senior left Taden Svendsen going six and a third innings to pick up the victory. Svendsen allowed just one run while scattering eight hits.

“It feels amazing knowing we’ll have a 2025 state championship banner hung up on the walls of Golden High School,” Svendsen said. “To take this home is great for the community.”

Svendsen and fellow senior Sawyer Brinkman would have likely shouldered the pitching load if the Demons were able to force a winner-take-all 4A title game two years ago. However, Severance edged Golden 1-0 to send the Demons home with the 4A runner-up trophy in 2023.

“I always worry about it no matter who the player is. It could be a senior. It could be a freshman. How are they respond being on this stage? This is a big deal,” Golden coach Jackie McBroom said. “Taden did a phenomenal job. He came out and pitched his game. He didn’t let the environment dictate how he threw.”

The environment got a little uncomfortable when Cheyenne Mountain won its fifth straight elimination game in the state tournament with a 5-2 extra-inning victory against Golden.

“I looked at my watch and just said, ‘It’s over now. It was time to move forward,’” Coach McBroom said about the Demons refocusing after the extra-inning loss where Golden stranded eight runners on base in the final three innings of the 5-2 loss.

The morning ended the Demons’ 20-game winning streak and set up a winner-take-all second game, but it didn’t derail Golden’s goal to win the state title.

“The focus in between games was just to flush it,” Stroup said about the extra-inning loss to Cheyenne Mountain. “A lot of underclassmen made some really big plays and got some really big hits.”

Casali reached and scored during all three of his at-bats. A 3-run bottom of the fifth inning gave the Demons (26-4 record) a 5-1 cushion. Sophomore Anthony Boucher had a big RBI single to right field that scored Casali to put Golden up 3-1. Sophomore Liam Leffert delivered the dagger with a 2-run triple to push the lead to 5-1.

“It was all just reset,” said Casali, who was 0-for-5 from the plate in the first game before going 2-for-2 with a walk and three runs scored in game two. “This was a fresh game. We knew we were the better game. Let’s build our confidence early and attack early. That was our whole mentality.”

Coach McBroom went to freshman lefty Austin Bittner to finish the game with one out in the top of the seventh inning. It was only Bittner’s fifth appearance in a varsity game this season.

“Not at all,” Bittner said if he imaged closing out the state championship game. “I was defintely trying to work toward it the entire season, starting on JV and then swinging up to varsity for a couple of games. I was working hard to get to the varsity level and pitch.”

Winning the state title will put the 2025 team in the same breath of the 2003 squad.

“First time in a long time and only the second time in 150 years,” Stroup said matching the historic 2003 state championship team. “To be one of the two Golden team to have done this feels really special.”

It also caps off a remarkable four-year run for Coach McBroom’s squads at the state tournament.

“People can look at it that we got the monkey off our back now,” Coach McBroom said of the Demons winning their first state title after multiple trips to the 8-team double-eliminate state tournament. “Ultimately, there aren’t many teams from Jeffco that have been down here four years in a row. I don’t see it as a failure of getting down here and not winning it. We’ve had a lot of success in these last for years.”