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Stick here for live updates and analysis as Denver takes on the Chargers in Inglewood, Calif. Live updates Pre-game updates It is a gorgeous day in Los Angeles (3:54 p.m.): Temps in the high 70s. Ideal weather for the open-air SoFi palace. Chargers are tenants here. Not going to lie, my favorite trip on the Broncos beat was always going to San Diego.

The Chicago Cubs are welcoming Sammy Sosa back to the organization following the slugger’s public apology for past “mistakes.” Sosa released a statement Thursday, paving the way for the former National League MVP, who has been estranged from the organization since he left the Cubs after the 2004 season. Sosa had been linked to performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) but long denied his involvement. “I understand why some players in my era don’t always get the recognition that our stats deserve,” Sosa, 56, said in the statement.

The Colorado Rapids are just about draft-ready. The club, which has been slowly amassing picks ahead of Friday’s MLS SuperDraft, is slated to make the No. 8 overall selection and has seven total picks. With that flexibility, the Rapids could get active in the draft-day trade market. Along with the eighth pick, the Rapids have two more first-rounders at Nos.

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Lindsey Vonn didn’t just pop into the hospital one day, get a new titanium knee and then decide on the way out that she wanted to return to downhill ski racing. It’s been a long, calculated process involving several minor and some major knee surgeries, careful vetting of the medical issues involved and then months of on-snow testing in New Zealand, Austria and Colorado to see how her body and new knee would react at age 40. So now that she’s preparing to step into a World Cup starting gate this weekend for the first time in nearly six years for super-G races in St.

Eighteen years ago, on a steep snow slope high in the French Alps, on skis nearly eight feet long, Ross Anderson of Durango set the American speed skiing record that still stands: 154 mph. Across a career that spanned 17 years, he was the lone person of color in an obscure form of skiing in which competitors sheathed in aerodynamic suits ski straight downhill searching for maximum velocity, an experience he likened to jumping out of an airplane.

Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag. Pose a Rockies- or MLB-related question for the Rockies Mailbag. Patrick, I am tired of seeing the Dodgers spend all this money and have millions deferred. Will that money eventually hit them on the luxury tax side of things?