CU's Heartbreak: The University of Colorado men's basketball team made a comeback this season, but it all came to an end after a 62-61 loss to Alabama last night in the National Invitation Tournament semifinals (Denver Post [2]).

Race Bait: The increasingly scrutinized Denver Police Department [3] is now facing two lawsuits alleging racial bias. In one, a Mexican immigrant in the country legally says he was wrongly arrested and jailed for five days. In the other, two African-American men say officers pulled them over for no apparent reason (Denver Post [4]).

Denver H&M? Will fashion retailer H&M set up a Denver shop at the Pavilions downtown? 9News [5] reports that's the case, but neither the business office at the Pavilions nor an H&M spokeswoman will confirm it for the Denver Business Journal [6]. In fact, H&M says, "We've got nothing to announce in that market."

Panic on the Rocks: Colorado has always been good to Widespread Panic, which has announced a string of concerts at Red Rocks from June 24 to 26 (Denver Post [7]). Other recently disclosed summer shows include Sade with John Legend, Peter Gabriel, and many, many others (Westword [8]).

Unstable: Is Denver International Airport spending too much money? Moody's Investors Service thinks so. As the airport plans to sell $400 million in order to re-fund debt, DIA's debt rating has dropped to "negative" (Denver Post [9]). Increased oil-and-gas drilling on DIA land will be a drop in the bucket (Gazette [10]).

Head State: Colorado now has the most strict laws [11] in the country governing youth sports concussions, after Governor John Hickenlooper signed the Jake Snakenberg Youth Concussion Act yesterday (Education News Colorado [12]).

Drink Local: Millet might make good birdseed, but state agriculture officials working with Colorado State University hope beer brewers will consider it as a gluten-free alternative (Denver Post [13]). Meanwhile, Aspen is thinking about marketing its own tap water (Aspen Times [14]).

AJ Vicens contributed to this post.