Comment on Colorado high school football rankings, Week 5: Welcome to showdown week in Class 5A

Michael Westbrook has a new second-favorite miracle. “Our Hail Mary won the game,” the iconic former CU wide receiver told me by phone Monday when I asked to compare his 1994 Miracle at Michigan catch — which turns 30 on Tuesday — to Shedeur Sanders’ Mile High Miracle, the Baylor Blessing, in the Buffs’ bonkers overtime win this past weekend. “Theirs prevented them from losing the game.

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The DU Pioneers finished last season on top. Now they’ll start the next one at the top, too. The University of Denver hockey team received the No. 1 ranking in the preseason USCHO poll released Monday, months after the program claimed a record 10th national title in Minneapolis. The Pios received 42 of 50 first-place votes in the poll voted on coaches and media members from across the country.

Charlie Blackmon’s iconic Rockies career is coming to an end. The Rockies announced Monday that the final game of Blackmon’s 14-year career will be Sunday when the club hosts the Dodgers at Coors Field in the 2024 season finale. The Rockies will celebrate Blackmon throughout the final series of the season and honor him prior to his final game. “As a kid you play the game because you love it, like nothing else matters,” Blackmon said in an Instagram post.

While the Colorado campus still basked in the glow of an improbable football victory, the signature sounds of dribbling basketballs and the squeaking of gym shoes echoed out of the CU Events Center. The CU men’s basketball team began preseason practice on Monday morning, officially tipping off the 15th season under head coach Tad Boyle. The Buffaloes are coming off a memorable 2023-24 campaign that included a program-record 26 wins, two victories in the NCAA Tournament and, later, three selections in the NBA Draft.

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