Comment on CHSAA state football playoffs: How the Round of 16 played out in Class 5A and 4A

On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King bested Bobby Riggs, in what was dubbed The Battle of the Sexes tennis match. Riggs was misogynist who claimed women were inferior and he could beat any female player any time. Up stepped Billie Jean King to take the challenge. 30,000 people filled the Houston's Astrodome and 50 million people watched it on television. History: "Howard Cosell called the match, in which King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

Last week reminded us that the Broncos are in deep trouble this season. Once again, interceptions were thrown, penalties called, runs stuffed and hands wrung. The blaring alarm comes from offensive statistics that look bad, are bad, and seem impossible to comprehend for a team not wearing leather helmets and playing on black-and-white TVs with rabbit ears. No one disputes the premise that the Broncos offense stinks.

Class 5A 1. Cherry Creek (2-1) at Highland Park (Texas), 51-39: The Bruins went into Dallas and handed the Highland Park Scots their first home loss in three years. Junior running back Jayden Fox ran for 206 yards and two TDs, the first giving Creek a 34-17 lead on the Bruins’ first possession of the second half.

Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) was in no mood for any of Rep. James Comer's bullshit games and brought the heat straight at him: FROST: This committee functions as an extension of the Trump campaign. First, we went after President Biden with a nonsense impeachment hearing. Then we went after his son.

Oliver Kylington was excited about a new opportunity, but he did not have spending more than two weeks in a Canadian hotel room on his offseason preparation bingo card. Kylington signed a one-year contract on Aug. 5 with the Colorado Avalanche. The 27-year-old is one of several new defensemen with the organization who, along with Sam Malinski, are competing for one of two openings on the blue line in the Avs’ lineup. When training camp started Thursday, Kylington had to wait.

The Denver Voice, a free monthly paper that provides job opportunities to people who are homeless through a low-barrier vendor program, is shutting down for at least one month because of a lack of money, according to a post on its Facebook page Friday afternoon. The paper’s management hopes the closure will be temporary. “Due to an ongoing lack of funds, we cannot pay our staff, cover our expenses, or continue supporting our vendor program,” the post reads in part.