Outside The Box: A New Year In The World Of Soccer

One more weekend is all you get if you want to ski Winter Park before it closes for the season. The resort hangs up its boots on Memorial Day, marking its second-longest season at 207 days, exceeded only by last year’s 211 days. Winter Park has recorded 406 inches of snowfall through the season, including five since Tuesday.

After two years of record-setting numbers, skier visits at U. S. resorts fell 7% this past season to 60.4 million, fifth most since the National Ski Areas Association began tracking them in 1978-79. Nationwide, numbers declined by 5 million skiers and riders. Numbers in the Rocky Mountain Region, which includes Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico in addition to Colorado, declined 5%. Related Articles Outdoors | New gondolas in the works for two Colorado ski resorts Outdoors | Rafting season is here and the whitewater forecast for northern Colorado looks good The numbers were released Wednesday at the NSAA’s national convention in Frisco, Texas.

Police and other first responders will be in and around Coors Field on Wednesday as the baseball stadium conducts an emergency exercise in conjunction with the city of Denver and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Colorado Rockies officials said. The Denver Post reported earlier this year that Wednesday’s exercise will simulate “an attack on Coors Field,” according to an email sent to a Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management mailing list in February. The practice scenario involves a simulated explosion followed by an active shooter during a regular season Rockies game at Coors Field, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wrote in an intake form seeking volunteer actors in February. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Missing Milliken man’s body found in Weld County lake Crime and Public Safety | Former Aurora school resource officer accused of texting 16-year-old about “panties” faces criminal charges Crime and Public Safety | Eastbound I-70 reopens near Lookout Mountain after dump truck crash Crime and Public Safety | DU building vandalized after false emergency call claimed someone had been shot Crime and Public Safety | 41 pounds of meth, 33K fentanyl pills seized in Centennial drug bust; 1 arrested “Be advised that there will be some local road closures and the presence of law enforcement and emergency response personnel in and around the ballpark during business hours May 22,” Rockies officials said in a Tuesday statement.

Marc Johnson knows there’s no crying in baseball. Not quite yet, anyway. In his 52nd and final season as the Cherry Creek head coach, Johnson leads the Bruins into the Class 5A state tournament this weekend. With Cherry Creek again a favorite, he’s not letting the finality of his run as Colorado’s all-time winningest coach sink in as he goes for his ninth championship in his 23rd state tournament appearance. “I haven’t allowed that emotion to enter my mind, and the reason is because we have a job at hand,” Johnson said.

Spoiler alert: The Rockies’ bullpen is about as volatile as Colorado’s May weather. On a night when shortstop Ezequiel Tovar had the first two-homer game of his young career and Cal Quantrill made another terrific start, the Rockies found a way to lose, 5-4, to the Athletics Tuesday night at the Oakland Coliseum. After a heartening seven-game winning streak, Colorado has now dropped four straight.

The Broncos will host a joint practice in Denver again this summer with at least one of their preseason opponents. The team confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Denver will host Green Bay for a joint practice session ahead of the teams’ Aug. 18 preseason game. That came after Packers head coach Matt LaFleur earlier in the day told reporters in Green Bay of the arrangement.