Denver Post: Sports

Jared Bednar intends to ride the hot goaltender throughout the playoffs.
The only thing: Which one?
The Colorado Avalanche coach has a goalie situation of the good variety with Pavel Francouz and Phlipp Grubauer presenting strong cases to be the the No.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced Thursday it was moving football, soccer and volleyball to the spring semester.
Cross country will keep running throughout the fall, as currently scheduled, while men’s and women’s golf will continue competing in non-championship competition this fall.

Next month’s scheduled trial pitting the three individuals who run the Patrick D. Bowlen Trust against the late Broncos owner’s two oldest children has been continued to 2021, a source told The Post on Thursday night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In the end, Portland star Damian Lillard was too much.
With unlimited range and the confidence to match it, Lillard hung 45 points on the Nuggets on Thursday to snap their two-game winning streak and keep Portland’s shot at the playoffs alive.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Justin Simmons is ready to put all the offseason contract talk in the rearview and just play football.
The Broncos and the 26-year-old safety couldn’t come to an agreement on a long-term deal this summer, so Simmons will play 2020 under the $11.441 million franchise tag, which is the NFL’s fifth-highest cap number for a safety this year.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Christian McCaffrey has left no doubt as to who he thinks should be the No. 1 pick in this year’s fantasy football drafts.
“I’d take myself, yeah,” the Panthers All-Pro running back said confidently Thursday before breaking into a wide smile.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Michael Reese thought it would be fun to run up the precipitous First Flatiron above Boulder to see how fast he could do it. And we do mean run.
He did have to mix in some hand holds in sections, but the Boulder rock climber ran and scrambled pretty much straight up the 60-degree face that rises 1,000 feet over Chautauqua Park without technical climbing ropes on July 3.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It’s hard to find a reason to like Bryson DeChambeau. It’s even harder to take your eyes off him.
He smashes jaw-dropping drives that seem to defy the very physics on which he bases his game.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

McKinley Wright IV has been on a lot of zoom calls this summer.
Since the three-time All-Pac-12 guard declared for the NBA draft March 26, he’s done interviews, told his life story countless times, done film breakdowns, and had teams evaluate both his on- and off-court abilities.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

For a guy who had COVID-19 and missed the start of summer camp, Rockies right fielder Charlie Blackmon is off to a pretty good start.
How good? Try a .390 average and an eight-game hitting streak entering Wednesday night’s game against San Francisco at Coors Field.