15 Stunning Images From Espn's 2018 Body Issue

The final fire truck rolled through the streets of Denver for the Nuggets’ celebratory parade a year ago, carrying Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and the franchise’s first NBA championship trophy. The truck suddenly stopped following a right turn around a corner. An instant later, chaos. On the concrete, amid the noise and celebrations, police Sgt.

The regression to the mean couldn’t have been meaner. After three straight wins in which the Colorado Rapids beat their opponents by a combined score of 9-1, a trip to LAFC was straight in the other direction. While the Rapids’ defense looked solid and stood its ground for much of the game, Mateusz Bogusz and LAFC were just too much to handle.

Zach Allen saw a pathway to success for himself even from 2,500 miles away. In early October 2021, Allen was in the midst of his third season with the Arizona Cardinals. He had two career sacks to his name after injuries plagued each of his first two seasons. And only recently had he come under the tutelage of future Hall of Famer J.

The road to American sport climbing at the Paris Olympics was paved through Boulder. Three of the four Americans headed to Paris for lead and bouldering — Colin Duffy, Brooke Raboutou and Natalia Grossman — spent their youth at ABC Kids Climbing in Boulder. There, the trio padded the city’s reputation as one of America’s premier climbing hotspots.

WESTMINSTER — Her rock is 28 pounds of Red Bull on four legs — one part husky, one part lab, one part funny car. Mishka, 11, moves like a comet in the grass, blessed with a gorgeous blond mane that fades into cream from the eyes to the nose. But you know what’s crazy?

Leave it to the 2024 Rockies to make the White Sox look like the ’27 Yankees. The White Sox entered the weekend series with a major league-worst 22-61 record. Then they beat the reeling Rockies, 5-3, on Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field. On Saturday, the Rockies’ once-promising afternoon quickly derailed into a train wreck.