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DALLAS — Zack Veen is on the clock. The Rockies outfielder, who turns 23 on Thursday, has played four injury-ridden professional seasons and has never gotten close to making the big-league roster. If 2025 is his year, he will have to beat out a slew of other talented outfielders. And he’s got to stay healthy. The ninth overall pick of the 2020 draft out of Florida’s Spruce Creek High School still needs more playing time in the minors, so he almost certainly won’t begin the season on the big-league roster.

Pat Swilling knows what’s coming next. He knows Sean Payton has found the Frank James to his Jesse, the Bonnie to his Clyde. He knows that when he sees Bo Nix, he sees a young man who’ll tear the heart from your chest while wishing you a Merry Christmas. He knows the AFC is in trouble. “Let me tell you something: You’re fortunate (in Denver).

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The Travis Hunter Heisman Train is heading to the one stop that matters: Manhattan. Hunter, the CU Buffs’ star wide receiver and cornerback, is among the finalists for the 2024 Heisman Trophy, presented annually to the player who provides the most “outstanding performance” in college football, as defined by the award itself. Finalists were announced late Monday afternoon by ESPN, a short while after voting closed. The Heisman Trophy will be presented at a ceremony in New York City that begins at 6 p.m.

Colorado women’s basketball center JoJo Nworie during practice on Dec. 5, 2024, at the CU Events Center in Boulder, Colo. (CU Athletics) Checking into a game on Saturday perhaps never felt so good for JoJo Nworie. A 6-foot-5 center from Nigeria, Nworie had missed the previous two basketball seasons, as well as the first nine games of this season, with injuries, but she made her Colorado debut in a 76-59 win against Southern Utah on Saturday. It was Nworie’s first game since the 2021-22 season, when she played for the College of Southern Idaho. “It felt so good.

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