Loyalty To Institution Can Result In Faulty Decision-making

COMMERCE CITY – Still looking for a reason to give Denver a women’s pro soccer team? Ben Hubbard can give you 19,000. And change. “We have hundreds of ambassadors now, around the state, who (were) organizing watch parties, tailgate parties (Saturday),” said Hubbard, co-founder of For Denver FC, nodding at the shoulder-to-shoulder jam on the concourse at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park for the USWNT’s 4-0 thrashing of South Korea. “(We’re) really active on social media, but they’re self-organizing now.

There were just too many family members and friends for Highlands Ranch native Mallory Swanson to provide with tickets for her first match back in Colorado since tearing her patellar tendon a little more than a year ago. Knowing her teammates from Colorado, Lindsey Horan and Sophia Smith may do the same, she rushed to purchase a suite at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, so all her closest people could witness a healthy, full-strength forward do her thing. And that’s exactly what she did. In the 34th minute of the U.

Colorado’s 4th Congressional District special election debate at the Grizzly Rose on Saturday featured two political novices, a guy who doesn’t want to win and an empty chair set aside for the presumed favorite in the race. Republican Greg Lopez was a no-show at the debate, sponsored by the Republican Women of Weld and the Lincoln Club of Colorado, a decision libertarian candidate Hannah Goodman called a travesty. “I disapprove of taking your ball and going home when things don’t seem to be going your way,” she said to a crowd of 200 or so packed into the venerable country-western bar in Adams County, just over the Denver line.

LAKEWOOD – With tears and a trophy. That is how Marc Johnson ended his coaching career after 52 years at Cherry Creek High School. On a postcard-perfect Saturday at All-Star Park, the Bruins swept a doubleheader from Regis Jesuit, claiming Johnson’s ninth state championship. As right-hander Ryan Falke delivered the final strike on a high fastball, delirium ensued.

A man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing another man after an argument outside of an Aurora apartment complex last summer. Norenty Ropon, 23, pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge Tuesday, according to court records. He was arrested July 13 in connection with the stabbing of 33-year-old Haruna Bizabishaka Bonanee. Ropon will be sentenced Aug.

LAKEWOOD — The Bruins wrote Marc Johnson a Disney ending. Cherry Creek won its ninth title under the retiring all-time CHSAA wins leader, beating Regis Jesuit twice on Saturday to claim the Class 5A championship. The Bruins mercy-ruled the Raiders, 11-1, in Game 1 at All-Star Park, then edged Regis Jesuit 5-2 in Game 2 to clinch the crown. Cherry Creek’s Ryan Falke pitches during the second game of their double elimination 5A title game at All-Star Park in Lakewood on June 1, 2024.