Tahoe Beckons Fair-weather Skiers

Broncos cornerback Riley Moss has been ruled out of Monday night’s matchup against the Cleveland Browns. Moss did not practice this week due to a knee injury, which he suffered in the second quarter of Week 12’s win over the Raiders. Head coach Sean Payton said the former Iowa standout injured his MCL and there were talks about getting him back in the game.

Even with Colorado’s 52-0 victory over Oklahoma State on Friday, the Buffs (7-2) will need some help to make it to the Big 12 Championship game. The three Big 12 teams tied at 6-2 going into Saturday are Arizona State, BYU and Iowa State. If all three teams win on Saturday (a four-way tie), it would be Arizona State that makes the Big 12 Championship.

KILLINGTON, Vt. — American ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin crashed after catching an edge in her second run of a World Cup giant slalom race Saturday, did a somersault and wound up in the protective fencing. Shiffrin stayed down on the course for quite some time as the ski patrol attended to her.

While it feels like the Colorado Avalanche is piecing together lineups with duct tape and popsicle sticks this season, the rosters for hockey’s first best-on-best international competition at the highest level in nine years will be announced Monday. The rosters for the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off will be revealed in two parts: Finland and Sweden in the afternoon (noon MT) on ESPN (and NHL Network), then the United States and Canada at 4:30 pm MT on TNT. “You speculate with some of the guys a little bit,” Avs star Mikko Rantanen said.

Guys in the Nuggets locker room may have lives outside of basketball, but the Grading The Week team? No chance. No lives whatsoever. We wake up in a triangle offense. We pick and roll until lunchtime, baby. But we’ll also admit that Jamal Murray’s comments during a roller-coaster week that saw Denver stomp the Lakers in Los Angeles and then come home and give up 265 points — yeah, yeah it was only 145, but it felt like more — to the Knicks got us … well, thinking. Which is always dangerous. “It’s a long season,” the Nuggets guard said after New York went wild at Ball Arena.

DALLAS — The Colorado Avalanche has shaken up the goaltending position for a second time this season. Colorado traded backup goalie Justus Annunen and a sixth-round pick in the 2025 NHL draft to the Nashville Predators for veteran Scott Wedgewood. The 32-year-old Wedgewood has played for four teams. He signed a two-year contract worth $1.5 million per season with the Predators this past summer.