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MADISON, Wis. — Former NFL head coach Jack Del Rio was arrested by Madison police for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and will step down from his role on Wisconsin’s coaching staff, coach Luke Fickell announced Monday.Del Rio — the former head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Oakland Raiders, and defensive coordinator and interim head coach for the Broncos — had joined Wisconsin’s staff in August as a senior adviser to Fickell.Madison police said Del Rio was arrested early Friday for a first-offense OWI after a vehicle hit a stop sign and broke a fence before resting in a…

Gabe Landeskog was back on the ice Monday morning.The Avalanche captain was in full gear and skating at Ball Arena ahead of his team’s morning skate before Colorado’s game with the Nashville Predators. He was on the ice with the two goalies who are not playing against the Predators, plus the injured players and Valeri Nichushkin.Landeskog did not remain on the ice for the full team portion of the morning skate. The Avs captain had stopped skating and was focusing on his work in the gym as he tries to return from a series of procedures on his right knee,…

Bill Husted, who charmed and inflamed Denver’s elite as a columnist for both The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, died at his Denver home in hospice care on Saturday at age 76.He died peacefully with his wife Polly Kruse at his side after reading the New York Times and doing the Saturday quiz, she said. A newsman to the last, he died from complications related to cancer, Kruse said.“He was so wonderfully curious; he wanted to know things. But he much preferred to know them first, and got a physical high from then turning around and being the…

The Denver district attorney has launched an investigation into how a spreadsheet of voting system passwords ended up on the Colorado secretary of state’s website earlier this year.The DA’s office on Monday would not divulge any additional details of the probe beyond confirming an open investigation.On Oct. 29, Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that a spreadsheet posted publicly on her office’s website for several months “improperly included” a hidden tab that displayed passwords protecting Colorado voting machines in many counties. The office categorized the breach as accidental.A team of state employees quickly went to country clerk offices to change…

Thanks to a series of storms that have been generous to most of the Colorado high country this month, most ski resorts have received well above normal snowfall so far this season.In fact, Steamboat is the only resort with below-average snowfall, sitting at 86% of normal, according to figures curated by the OpenSnow forecasting and reporting service. Steamboat has received 28 inches.As of Monday, Crested Butte, Monarch, Purgatory and Telluride all have received twice their normal amount of snowfall for this date, and Eldora is close at 96% above normal. Aspen, Aspen Highlands, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Buttermilk, Cooper, Copper Mountain,…

With less than a percentage-point difference in votes, Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo on Sunday conceded her bid to continue representing Colorado’s 8th Congressional District to Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans.“It’s been the honor of a lifetime to serve the people of Colorado’s 8th District,” Caraveo said in a statement. “I came to Congress to get things done, and have spent the last two years working to find common ground and bipartisan solutions to the most pressing issues facing our community. … While this isn’t the outcome we had hoped for, the work is not over.”All three counties that make…

Oregon was the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the fourth straight week on Sunday as Penn State and Indiana climbed into the top five, Georgia and Miami dropped out of the top 10 and losses by four other ranked teams shuffled the rankings with a month left in the regular season.No team this season has held the top spot for more consecutive weeks than Oregon, which pulled away from Maryland over the weekend to improve to 10-0 and is a unanimous No. 1 for the second straight week.Ohio State moved up one…

The play was perfect, and it perfectly symbolized how the Regis Jesuit Raiders executed their offensive game plan on Sunday afternoon.On a first-and-10 play from their own 45, freshman quarterback Luke Rubley handed the ball off to sophomore running back Joe Pron, who approached the line of scrimmage and then tossed it back to Rubley, who then found senior Peyton Lindell all alone behind the secondary.The 55-yard flea-flicker touchdown put Regis ahead 21-0 with 2 minutes and 29 seconds left in the first quarter. From there, the No. 12 Raiders cruised to a 45-14 win over No. 21 Eaglecrest in…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It is getting hard to explain the incalculable pain brought on by the Kansas City Chiefs. The Broncos lost for the ninth straight time at Arrowhead Stadium, and the psychological toll threatens to shake the faith of not only the team but Broncos Country.How many times can you swirl a heart in a blender before yanking the cord from the outlet? For the ninth straight season, the Broncos are not going to the playoffs. At least, that was the immediate conclusion after the Chiefs’ 16-14 block-off victory.“It will sting,” coach Sean Payton said.This moment will define…

KANSAS CITY — P.J. Locke didn’t want to be bothered.Sitting inside the visiting locker room in Kansas City, the Broncos safety was trying to piece together the final moments of Sunday’s 16-14 loss to the Chiefs. His emotions ranged from frustration to sadness to flat-out disbelief over how the football gods were not on Denver’s side on Sunday.At GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, the Broncos did everything they could defensively to limit quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the reigning Super Bowl champions. But in a matter of seconds, all that hard work faded away on a blocked field goal at the…