After a white-hot 3-0 start to the season, the University of Colorado got knocked back down to reality on Saturday in a 42-6 blowout to the Oregon Ducks in Eugene.

Head coach Deion Sanders, referred to as “Coach Prime,” had turned the school into the epicenter of all of football throughout the first several weeks of the college football season and into arguably the top story in all of sports.

The amount of attention that the program was receiving — combined with some of their top players flashing their financial successes in the faces of their opponents — provided a lot of motivation for the Ducks to want to come out and humiliate the Buffs.

Oregon Head Coach Dan Lanning said before the game that his team was “rooted in substance, not flash” and predicted that Colorado’s “Cinderella story” was over.

“The Cinderella story is over, men. They’re fighting for clicks, we’re fighting for wins,” he said in the locker room prior to the game. “There’s a difference. This game ain’t going to be played in Hollywood. It’s going to be played on the grass.”

The game did not take long to turn ugly as Oregon manhandled Colorado in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Early in the 2nd quarter with a two-touchdown lead, Oregon ran a well-executed fake punt on 4th down that seemed to be a pivotal moment in the game. By halftime, the score was 35-0.

Lanning, who has shown disdain for Colorado in the past, made clear as he was headed back to the sidelines that he wanted to humiliate Colorado, telling a reporter that he was “not satisfied” with the 35-0 lead.

Late in the 3rd quarter, Lanning had his team — already up 42-0 — go for it on 4th & goal from the Colorado 5-yard line. They came up short. After the failed attempt, Oregon pulled back the reins a bit.

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“First and foremost, I thank the Lord for allowing all this to transpire,” Sanders told the media after the game. “It’s a good old-fashioned butt-kicking. There’s no excuses, no nothing. Their coaches did a heck of a job preparing their team. Obviously we didn’t. That was good. I mean, that was a really good old-fashioned butt-kicking. We went into the game wanting to dominate several phases. We lost offensively, defensively, as well as special teams. That fake punt kind of kind of got them really rolling and they didn’t stop ever since they secured that first down. Well-coached team.”

Sanders later addressed Lanning’s remarks about “clicks.”

“I don’t say stuff just to say it for click on the contrary to what some may say,” he said. “I analyze and I understand what we’re up against and what we have and what we need. One thing that I can say, honestly and candidly, you gotta get me right now. This is the worst we’re gonna be. You better get me right now.”

Deion Sanders responded to Dan Lanning’s “clicks and wins” comment following @CUBuffsFootball’s 42-6 loss to Oregon.

Coach Prime always telling it like it is:@On3sports x @On3Video pic.twitter.com/yolepv1WIW

— Nick Kosko (@nickkosko59) September 23, 2023

Chicago’s Democratic mayor has announced a partnership with a far-left non-profit to advance his proposal of a government-owned grocery store, which he argues is needed for the sake of “racial justice.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a press release this month that the city-owned grocery store — which would be the largest of its kind in the U.S. — is needed to address the exit of corporate grocery stores and promote “food equity.”

“[F]ood access and security link directly to environmental and racial justice,” Johnson’s office said in a press release, adding that “37% of Black residents and 29% of Latine/x residents are food insecure, compared to 19% of residents overall.”

The mayor’s office argued that “historic disinvestment has led to inequitable access to food retail across Chicago,” and noted that “existing inequities have been exacerbated as at least six grocery stores closed on the South and West sides over the past two years.”

Indeed, as Chicago continues to reel with violent crime and large-scale theft, corporate grocery stores like Walmart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods have recently packed up and left Chicago.

Walmart announced the closure of four stores in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods back in April, and said it was due to a lack of profitability going back 17 years when the company first opened in Chicago. “These stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years,” the press release said.

The statement did not specifically mention shoplifting, which has jumped in Chicago by 25% over just the last year. However, Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon did warn last year that if shoplifting across the country didn’t slow down, he’d have to shut down some stores.

Johnson has promoted a community safety team to try to tackle crime, but that, so far, has been unsuccessful. He’s even resorted to suing car companies because of the outrageous auto thefts in the city — a move heavily criticized.

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The city has yet to provide an exact estimate for the price tag of something like a city-owned grocery store, but it is notable that the mayor announced just this month that the city is projecting a deficit of $538 million dollars for this upcoming fiscal year.

The mayor’s chief of policy, Umi Grisby, has claimed that this project won’t use taxpayer dollars, though she admitted the city would use state and federal funding.

“We are not spending any taxpayer dollars, right?” she told CBS Chicago. “What we’re also going to be able to access is the funding that exists at the national level and the state level.”

Moreover, the mayor’s office has already acknowledged that this project, if completed, will also use economic grant money, which, too, comes from taxpayers.

Critics have said this grocery store proposal is akin to “Soviet-style central planning.” Detractors have also highlighted the city’s penchant for corruption and the city’s half-a-billion dollar deficit to question how the store could be efficient. There are also still questions about how prices would be set, how this would be superior to private grocery stores, and how it would affect private enterprise.