Posnanski: The Rise And Fall Of A-rod

The Broncos losing 70-20 irks me more than 100 losses by the Rockies, because at least the Broncos have the talent to prevent that kind of debacle. While really bad, 100 L’s are the product of greedy Rockies management that won’t give the team the talent it needs to compete. Ed, Denver Kiz: It’s a week of Colorado sports that will live in infamy.

The arc of the Chicago Cubs season has been amazing to watch unfold because no other season was quite like it. The Cubs were 10 games under .500 on June 8, then got hot and played 22 games over .500 (50-28) from June 9 to Sept. 6, when they had a 92% chance of making the playoffs. But just when it looked as if they could plan their postseason rotation, they faltered down the stretch, going 6-14 from Sept.

BOULDER — Brenden Rice was up early Saturday morning. Technically, everyone on the USC football team was. The Trojans had to play a game at 9 a.m., Los Angeles time, against the Colorado Buffaloes. But this was a different deal for Rice, who was one of Colorado’s best players in 2021 before leaving the program to join Lincoln Riley, Caleb Williams & Co. “I was up an hour earlier, went to work out and burn off some steam because I wanted to come in here and I kind of had butterflies,” Rice said after USC’s wild 48-41 victory.

BOULDER — USC Trojans star Caleb Williams walked into Folsom Field on Saturday as the Heisman Trophy winner and left the stadium as the second-best quarterback in college football. Shedeur Sanders brought the CU Buffs back from the brink and dared the mighty Trojans to blink in a 48-41 thriller that USC was lucky to survive unbeaten. As a quarterback, there is more than a little Tom Brady, with a sassy dash of Joe Montana, to be seen in Sanders, capable of doing even more amazing football magic than Williams, the presumed top pick in the next NFL draft. Maybe the 30 pro scouts in attendance at the game would argue otherwise. But they would be wrong. When building an NFL team for the future, you can take Williams with the No.

Dylan Cease was in top form, pitching into the seventh inning. Andrew Vaughn delivered the big hit, driving in two runs with a ninth-inning double. Just about everything went right for the Chicago White Sox on opening day in a 3-2 victory against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. It turned out to be the team’s only day above .500 all year. The Sox wrap up one of the worst seasons in franchise history against the San Diego Padres on Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field.

The Colorado Buffaloes took on and lost 48-41 to the USC Trojans at Folsom Field on September 30, 2023 in Boulder, Colorado.