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The writing was on the wall: In 17 starts for the Rockies, right-hander Dakota Hudson was 2-12 with a 5.84 ERA and walked nearly as many batters as he struck out. Sunday, the Rockies designated Hudson for assignment and selected the contract of right-hander Tanner Gordon from Triple-A Albuquerque. Tanner will make his major league debut and start against Kansas City on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field. Hudson, 30, who signed a one-year, $1.5 million free-agent contract to come to Colorado, struggled mightily at Coors Field.

Vlatko Cancar will return to Denver for the 2024-25 season after agreeing to a new veteran minimum contract with the Nuggets in free agency, a league source told The Denver Post. The Nuggets declined Cancar’s $2.35 million team option in June, a mutually beneficial maneuver that will now simultaneously increase Cancar’s salary and decrease his cap figure.

Almost by definition, a Rule 5 Draft pick is a reclamation project. The players selected on the final morning of Major League Baseball’s winter meetings usually come and go without much notice and without making much of an impact. On occasion, teams hit paydirt. The Rockies are optimistic they’ve done so with Anthony Molina, the 22-year-old right-hander they plucked from Tampa Bay last December.

The two biggest questions for next season remain unresolved, but the Colorado Avalanche did find some intriguing bargains despite limited financial resources at the start of a wild offseason. For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, a lack of cap space was not the main storyline when free agency opened July 1 and NHL GMs turned back the clock for a proper spending spree.

Jordyn Poulter has seen the view from volleyball’s mountaintop. The ascent is anything but easy, even for someone who succeeded at every waypoint. In 2014, she was a blue chip setter out of Eaglecrest High School. Her decorated collegiate career included multiple All-American honors and a Final Four appearance with the University of Illinois. By the time she graduated, she not only secured a job in the top Italian professional league but also captured the attention of the U.

BOULDER — From 5,280 feet, it looks more like a crazy wall or a conspiracy board than a conference map. The new Big 12 is a mess of pins connected by string, hope and quiet desperation. One of the longest stretches 2,074 miles, from Morgantown, W. Va. to Tucson, Ariz., from sweetgum trees to saguaros, with a layover in Cincinnati and a detour in central Iowa. This ain’t your daddy’s Big 12. Here’s what the Buffs’ new league isn’t: The back-biting conference they fled in 2010.