Denver Post: Sports

A look at how the top Heisman Trophy contenders, including two-way CU Buffs star Travis Hunter, played on Saturday:
Travis Hunter, Colorado WR/CB
Odds entering Saturday: -400
Numbers at Kansas: 8 receptions for 125 yards and 2 touchdowns; 7 tackles, 1 pass defended

The CSU Rams’ conference championship hopes are no longer in their hands.
With a chance to control their own destiny in the Mountain West Conference title race, the Rams fell flat in a trip to California’s Central Valley, losing 28-22 at Fresno State late Saturday night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Up in the Grading The Week offices, the Rockies actually made us think of Branch Rickey on Friday.
Or rather, something Rickey, the man who integrated Major League Baseball and more or less created the modern farm system, once said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Bo Nix doesn’t care how tight the coverage is. If he sees Courtland Sutton running down the field, the Broncos quarterback is confident good things will happen.
That has been prevalent as Nix has gotten more comfortable over the past five weeks, and especially in Denver’s 38-6 win over the Falcons last Sunday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MONUMENT — The last time that Broomfield football made the trip down to Don Breese Stadium for the Class 4A state playoffs, the Eagles left battered, bruised and defeated by Palmer Ridge.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Nikola Jokic’s return made for outstanding theater in the NBA Cup, but the return of his alien stat lines was not enough for Denver.
In his first game back after welcoming a newborn son this week, Jokic tallied 33 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists, but the Nuggets fell 123-120 to the Mavericks on Friday night at Ball Arena.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

No team has won more games or collected more points than the Boston Bruins since the day they hired Jim Montgomery as their head coach.
And yet the national championship-winning coach at the University of Denver is no longer employed by the Bruins after being fired Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Nikola Jokic has returned to the Nuggets’ lineup after welcoming a newborn son this week with his wife, Natalija, a source told The Denver Post.

Colorado has been supplying the NWSL with top-end talent for years.
Soon, the league could be paying it back with an expansion franchise in the Mile High City.
National Women’s Soccer League Commissioner Jessica Berman named Denver as one of three finalists for an expansion team in a news conference on Friday.

WASHINGTON — Parker Kelly’s initiation as a center in the NHL was a bit like taking a first swimming lesson in the middle of an ocean.
He felt it most when he settled into his position for a faceoff during his first exhibition game for the Avalanche and was nose-to-nose with Matt Duchene.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share