Sports
Ceal Barry coaching tree to continue CU Buffs legend’s impact on women’s basketball
By: Pat Rooney
It wasn’t a meeting that, at first glance, foretold of some momentous and extremely successful working relationship. It was more like grabbing an after-work burger. In the spring of 1996, and LaTonya Watson was visiting Colorado Springs from Texas while working a basketball camp at the Air Force Academy. Ceal...
With spring football scrapped, Colorado high school coaches make due amid coronavirus
By: Matt Schubert
Jeremy Bennett already had enough to worry about this spring. The 47-year-old took over the Mullen High School football program in February after serving as D’Evelyn High’s head coach for the past 15 years. He had new schemes to install, students walking the halls to recruit and a coaching staff...
WATCH: Rockies vs. Phillies MLB The Show 20 live stream, May 24, 2020
By: Joe Nguyen
With the start of the Major League Baseball season postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, we here at The Denver Post took a look at how the Rockies would fare in MLB The Show 20 on PlayStation 4. We will have a story for every game that had been scheduled...
A-Basin opening for spring skiing next week
By: Robert Denton, The Know
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will open its slopes for some spring skiing next Wednesday. On Sunday, Summit County announced that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment granted a variance to the statewide safer-at-home order that allows for skiing at A-Basin. But there are several caveats. Related Articles State...
How I got hooked on sports: Jake Plummer in the Rose Bowl and a connection that never faded
By: Matt Schubert
The memory is hazy now. All I can see is Paul Justin’s pass spiraling some 40 yards through the air as the crowd rises to its feet and an Arizona State receiver streaks downfield under the Sun Devil Stadium lights. Catch, run, roar. That’s how it all began for me...
Ranking the Top 10 Colorado-born football players in NFL history
By: Kyle Newman
Tailback Phillip Lindsay and offensive lineman Dalton Risner are centerpieces on the Broncos roster, and the Panthers’ Christian McCaffrey recently signed the richest deal for a running back in NFL history. The professional rise of those three homegrown athletes raises the question: Who are the greatest NFL players to come...
Rockies prospects Ryan Rolison, Tyler Nevin face uncertainty of no minor league season
By: Patrick Saunders
Limbo is not a comfortable place for athletes to reside, but that’s where minor league baseball players find themselves as spring eases toward summer. Left-hander Ryan Rolison was likely going to begin the 2020 season pitching for the Hartford Yardgoats, the Rockies’ Double-A affiliate. First baseman Tyler Nevin hoped to climb...
Chambers: NHL players motivated to return for all the right reasons
By: Mike Chambers
NHL players are certainly an unselfish breed, mostly motivated by the pursuit of a silver chalice they can share with teammates and friends. They have one paycheck due them for the 2019-20 regular season, and they’ll get that regardless of whether play resumes from the COVID-19 crisis and the Stanley...
How Gary Lane helped bring the Avalanche to Denver and the Stanley Cup soon followed
By: Mike Chambers
Wearing a Patrick Roy jersey inside the Miami Arena visitors’ locker room around 1:30 a.m. on June 11, 1996, Wellington Webb found himself in Joe Sakic’s crosshairs. The Avalanche, in its first year of existence, had just swept the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final with a 1-0 three-overtime victory...
From Manual to Denver East, Rudy Carey’s status as a Colorado hoops icon is clear as he closes in on all-time CHSAA wins record
By: Kyle Newman
Editor’s note: Third in a series about basketball icons in Colorado. The first two installments profiled Alex English and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. He was an all-state point guard at Denver East, then all-WAC at Colorado State. But it wasn’t until 1975 — when Rudy Carey was invited to Nuggets training camp,...
Broncos rookie Tyrie Cleveland can’t wait to prove doubters, and NFL execs, wrong
By: Sean Keeler
For more than an hour, Matt Kerstetter’s phone went off like a restaurant buzzer. Usually, it was Tyrie Cleveland, texting again: Hey coach, what do you think about this? These guys are calling me about free agency. As the 2020 NFL Draft hit the seventh round last month, Kerstetter, the...
Eddie Sutton, Hall of Fame basketball coach, dies at 84
By: Cliff Brunt
Eddie Sutton, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who led three teams to the Final Four and was the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA Tournament, died Saturday. He was 84. Sutton’s family said in a statement he died of natural causes at home in the Tulsa,...
Keeler: The Avalanche and Nuggets get to finish what they started? Hallelujah!
By: Sean Keeler
We made it to Memorial Day with our sanity intact. Mostly. The New York Jets just threw a barrel full of cash at the stagnant husk that used to be Joe Flacco, the surest sign yet that things are creeping back to normal again. “That’s the story of life. It’s...
NBA says it is talking with Disney about resuming season
By: Tim Reynolds
The NBA is in talks with The Walt Disney Company on a single-site scenario for a resumption of play in Central Florida in late July, the clearest sign yet that the league believes the season can continue amid the coronavirus pandemic. The National Basketball Players Association is also part of...
Hardrock 100 canceled amid uncertainty over coronavirus pandemic
By: Daniel Petty
The Hardrock 100 ultrarun has been canceled for a second straight year, becoming the latest endurance sporting event in Colorado to be scrapped over health concerns from the coronavirus pandemic. The race’s board of directors announced the decision publicly on Saturday. It’s the fourth time the run has been canceled...
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf arrested in California
By: The Associated Press
PALM DESERT, Calif. — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested in Southern California on Friday. Leaf, 44, was arrested on a domestic battery charge in Palm Desert, which is about 110 miles (177 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, according to booking information provided by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department...
Alaska Baseball League cancels upcoming summer season
By: The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Baseball League has canceled its summer season, as the future of sports worldwide remains uncertain during the coronavirus pandemic. “To operate this summer without the ability to keep all involved safe from exposure to the COVID-19 virus, we as a league have decided not to...
Nolan Arenado hits two homers as Rockies beat Phillies, win 6th straight in MLB The Show 20
By: Joe Nguyen
With the start of the Major League Baseball season postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, we here at The Denver Post took a look at how the Rockies would fare in MLB The Show 20 on PlayStation 4. We will have a story for every game that had been scheduled...
