Their leader in interceptions and defensive snaps last year.
A former second-round pick.
A versatile defensive lineman who can sack quarterbacks and bat down their passes.
And two players who were in their second tour with the franchise.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Timberwolves shooting guard Malik Beasley has been suspended for 12 games without pay by the NBA for his recent guilty plea to a felony charge of threats of violence.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Broncos traded away the No. 9 overall pick, landed a couple more picks and still bolstered their secondary in Mel Kiper Jr.’s latest NFL mock draft.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn Tuesday, Karl Dorrell marked the one-year anniversary of the day he was introduced as the head football coach at Colorado.
In a little over a month, Dorrell and the Buffaloes will return to the practice field.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
J.T. Compher had not recorded a point in six consecutive Avalanche games before Wednesday night. During the drought, the coaching staff stepped in to remind the fifth-year NHL forward why they haven’t lost faith in him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Josh Fuentes has proven doubters wrong before. Now he has to prove himself again.
He says bring it on.
“One-hundred percent,” Fuentes said here Wednesday from Salt River Fields.
Avalanche forward Brandon Saad was absent from the team’s morning skate Wednesday, initially prompting health concerns, before coach Jared Bednar cleared the confusion with a smile.
Saad will miss Colorado’s game against the Minnesota Wild for the best of reasons.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Nuggets made history on Tuesday.
Denver recorded just one turnover in its 111-106 win over Portland at Ball Arena. The team tweeted out after the game that it was the fewest in NBA history.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Nuggets on Wednesday unveiled the second half of their 2020-21 regular-season schedule, kicking off with a road game against the Grizzlies on March 12 before coming back to Denver for a five-game homestand.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Carmelo Anthony’s had a rough run in Denver since he was traded from the Nuggets a decade ago.
The Nuggets’ No. 3 overall pick in 2003 has gone winless in the Mile High City against his former team since it traded him to the Knicks in 2011.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sam Hilliard is one of the most intriguing players at the Rockies’ camp.
Ask teammates about the 6-foot-5, 230-pound outfielder, and the praise comes gushing out.
“One of the more toolsy guys we have on the team,” veteran right fielder Charlie Blackmon said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
DETROIT — Investigators who are looking into the rollover crash that injured golf legend Tiger Woods will rely heavily on data stored in the Genesis SUV he was driving to figure out what happened.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
University of Colorado Boulder football player La’Vontae Shenault was ticketed for speeding and driving with a revoked license in Boulder County this month, the third traffic case the Buffs’ wide receiver has picked up less than a year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Even during a normal year, Jacqueline Kim, a stay-at-home mother of two in Encinitas, California, is pretty bullish about making travel plans to national parks. She researches trails and sites, and logs on to the websites right when reservations open up.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Avalanche power-play unit scrambled late in the second period Wednesday when a turnover in their defensive zone gifted the Minnesota Wild a short-handed goal.
The Colorado miscue personified a 6-2 loss at Ball Arena.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Players for the U.S. women’s national team have decided to move on from kneeling during the anthem and instead focus on behind-the-scenes work to address racial inequity.
Many players have knelt for the anthem before national team and club matches over the past year to protest systemic racism.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Go ahead, tell Charlie Blackmon he’s stuck way out in right field for a baseball team without a clue and the Rockies are doomed to the colossal failure of a 100-loss season.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Nikola Jokic had a big night leading the Denver Nuggets to a 111-106 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday. The all-star Serbian went for 41 points, five rebounds and five assists.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
As spring training heats up, here’s my observations from the Cactus League to the Grapefruit League and beyond.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe NFL mock draft season is in full swing and one national writer has Denver using its No. 9 overall selection — and a host of other draft picks — in a blockbuster trade.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado State football coach Steve Addazio made one thing clear as the Rams start spring practice this week: Todd Centeio is CSU’s starting quarterback.
“We have a definitive starter going into spring and that’s Toddy,” Addazio said Thursday during a virtual news conference.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Nuggets coach Michael Malone said he and his staff were pleased to see the conclusions of an independent investigation which found Aurora police officers made substantial errors during their fatal interaction with Elijah McClain in August of 2019.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
RENO, Nev. — The widow and a friend of a skier killed in an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe ski resort last year have filed separate lawsuits accusing the resort of negligently rushing to open the slopes in unsafe conditions for a holiday weekend that’s typically one of the season’s busiest.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Broncos’ defense continued to be re-shaped Thursday when the team released defensive end Jurrell Casey.
Casey, 31, was limited to three games last year because of a Week 3 biceps tendon injury.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Avery VanSickle feels a sharp pain in her left leg with every sprint down the court.
But the Regis Jesuit High School senior point guard keeps moving.
“I hope that the adrenaline takes over,” VanSickle said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Charlie Blackmon doesn’t toss around cheap compliments, so when the Rockies’ veteran right-fielder goes out of his way to praise a player, you pay attention.
In this case, teammate Raimel Tapia, the starting left fielder who batted .321 last season, including .326 in 34 games from the leadoff spot.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The PGA Tour without Tiger Woods was always inevitable purely because of age. His shattered right leg from his SUV flipping down a hill on a sweeping road through coastal Los Angeles suburbs only brings that closer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Nolan Arenado arrived at spring training about a week before the rest of the St. Louis Cardinals’ position players, trying to get accustomed to the time change of Florida from his home on the West Coast along with learning his way around his first new team in a dozen years in pro baseball.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag.
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