Even when Shedeur Sanders still was in high school, his coach/father, Deion Sanders, had a firm grasp of the sort of attack his son should run at the next level. Call it the run-and-shoot. Call it the Air Raid. Call it what you will, but Coach Prime had a vision. He wanted Shedeur to have an array of weapons at […]

BOULDER — The Rocky Mountain Showdown isn’t just the hottest football ticket on the Front Range this weekend. It’s one of the hottest college football tickets in the country. The popular ticketing site VividSeats.com says based on its market database, CU-CSU was the fourth-most expensive college football seat in the nation as of Tuesday, with an average get-in price of […]

Recapping the best and worst of Week 2 action across the Pac-12 … Theme of the week: Sizzling success The Pac-12 won seven of 10 non-conference games and owns a 20-3 record outside of league play, tops in the Power Five. The Week 2 results included two road wins in Big 12 country (Utah and Oregon) and two home victories […]

Initial observations from the CU Buffs’ 36-14 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers in head coach Deion Sanders’ home debut at Folsom Field. Bright and early: Over/under on hours of sleep for the CU student section? We’re putting that at roughly 0.5 hours — and taking the under. Hundreds swarmed the bleachers the first moment they could at 8 a.m., and […]

BOULDER — Zach Hilbers has entertained saints, sinners, swindlers, senseis, sharks, sages and savants. But he’d never seen any coach do what CU Buffs defensive line coach Sal Sunseri did a few months back while he was recruiting Brandon Davis-Swain. “He had Brandon do hand-fighting drills with him in my home room,” Hilbers, the football coach at West Bloomfield (Mich.) […]

The Week 1 result that seems really meaningful but turns out not to be is a time-honored tradition in college football. The gold standard of this category is the infamous “Texas is back” game in 2016 when the Longhorns beat Notre Dame in overtime. The victory pushed coach Charlie Strong’s team from unranked in the preseason to No. 11. There […]

Zheng Qinwen, the brightest of China’s growing cohort of bright tennis lights, was 7 years old when she first picked up a racket. Almost instantly, she was among the best children her age in her hometown, Shiyan, by Chinese standards a smaller city with 1.1 million people. She loved the sport, and after two months she and her father traveled […]

If the Cornhuskers want another piece of Boulder after 2024, CU Buffs athletic director Rick George is game for a rematch. “I would be very open to having a home-and-home (series) with Nebraska in the future,” George told The Denver Post recently when asked about future matchups with the Cornhuskers after the current four-game contract expires next fall. CU is […]

The men’s semifinals at the U.S. Open are guaranteed to include at least one American. That’s because 10th-seeded Frances Tiafoe and unseeded Ben Shelton will play for one of the final four spots when they meet in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. Their match features two of the three American men remaining in the tournament. The other is ninth-seeded Taylor Fritz, […]

Colorado State (3-9 in 2022) vs. Washington State (7-6) When/where: 5 p.m. Saturday/Canvas Stadium TV/Radio: CBSSN/1600 AM BetMGM Line: Wazzu -11, 55.5 over/under Weather: 91 degrees, partly cloudy Five storylines Offensive line overhaul: A year after giving up the most sacks in FBS (59), CSU coach Jay Norvell overhauled the Rams’ offensive front, with senior center Jacob Gardner surrounded by […]