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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Audric Estime’s opportunity arrived, he ran with it.The rookie running back provided punch to the Broncos’ ground game Sunday in his most extensive work to date.It might signal just the start of an expanded role for the fifth-round draft pick out of Notre Dame.“We keep wanting to get him involved,” head coach Sean Payton said. “He’s a handful.”Take Our PollEstime carried 14 times for 53 yards overall in the Broncos’ gutting 16-14 loss, but it was more than just the numbers that suggest his status in Denver’s backfield is changing.Consider this: Estime fumbled twice in…

Nearly one in five Colorado high school students reported they have seriously considered suicide, according to the latest survey data on the subject. That startling statistic is what makes the work Colorado nonprofit Second Wind Fund does all the more important, said Anna Bishop, development director for the organization that connects Colorado youth under 20 who are at risk of suicide to accessible mental health care.To access the organization’s services, parents or youth-serving professionals like school counselors fill out an online form on the Second Wind Fund website describing what the young person in their life is struggling with and what…

Justus Annunen’s string of competent goaltending helped steady the Colorado Avalanche during a tumultuous start to this season, and it will likely help him stave off a challenge for his place on the NHL roster.But what if we think a little bigger for the large Finnish goaltender? Could Annunen’s strong work at the end of last season, plus a steady run of solid starts this year, push him into the conversation for Finland’s third-string goaltender at the forthcoming 2025 4 Nations Face-Off or the 2026 Winter Olympics?“I think he’s played really well,” Finnish Avs star Mikko Rantanen said. “He’s showed…

Jamal Murray issued a challenge to his locker-room neighbor.He needed to be entertained somehow. And someone other than Nikola Jokic was going to have to score to make up for Murray’s absence, anyway. The point guard was recovering from a hamstring injury. The Nuggets were halfway through a month of fending without him. It was Nov. 17, 2023, in New Orleans.So Murray turned to Christian Braun in the visitors’ locker room. Take a step-back tonight, he dared the 22-year-old.“I ended up hitting three 3s that game,” Braun told The Denver Post, accurately recalling the box score one year later.Whether any…

By COLLEEN LONG and DAN MERICAWASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1.” According to his own statements, he’s got a lot to do on that first day in the White House.His list includes starting up the mass deportation of migrants, rolling back Biden administration policies on education, reshaping the federal government by firing potentially thousands of federal employees he believes are secretly working against him, and pardoning people who were arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.“I want to close the border, and…

FORT COLLINS — After a violent outburst almost cost him everything, Avery Morrow was determined to get his life back on track.His path took a turn after an on-campus altercation in January 2023, when he assaulted a fellow male CSU student who contacted Morrow’s parked car while riding by on a longboard.For tackling and punching the student multiple times, Morrow was suspended from the team for six months and served 46 days in a work-release program last summer after being convicted of misdemeanor assault. A judge also ordered him to do 200 hours of community service and pay restitution and…

The RMAC football title will stay in Colorado. It’s just heading elsewhere.CSU Pueblo officially put an end to Colorado School of Mines’ longshot conference championship hopes with a 28-13 victory on a chilly Saturday afternoon inside the Thunderbowl.The seventh-ranked Thunderwolves (9-1, 8-0 RMAC) were outgained 392 to 332 but came up with key stops again and again to beat the 14th-ranked Orediggers (7-3, 5-3 RMAC) for the first time in seven years. The win marks the first time CSU Pueblo has claimed at least a share of the RMAC title since 2018, and the first time since 2017 that Mines won’t…

LAFAYETTE — Fit somewhere inside the bell-bottom jean pockets of the 1970s, Alabama’s legendary football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant was credited with what’s become a gridiron proverb: Defense wins championships.That’s promising for Monarch — no, not that it’s getting ahead of itself.A dominating defense led the Coyotes to what only felt like their first postseason win since the disco era. Their 28-7 first-round win over Bear Creek on Saturday at Spangenberg Field put to rest the program’s 11-year drought without a playoff win.And while a first-round performance is far from a championship, it does serve as further vindication that the…

Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans held onto his lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo as results continued to trickle in at the tail-end of a tight race to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.Evans’ lead shrank between Friday evening and Saturday evening, from 2,529 votes to 2,202 as of 6:42 p.m., with Evans claiming about 48.9% of the 323,440 ballots tallied so far to Caraveo’s 48.3%.The congressional district that includes sections of Adams, Larimer and Weld counties could play a pivotal role in the partisan battle over control of the House of Representatives, where Republicans seek to hold onto a narrow…

Initial observations from the CU Buffs’ 41-27 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Big 12 play at Jones AT&T Stadium on Saturday.It’s the defense: The biggest difference between 4-8 and this year’s Big 12 title contender (other than the schedule)? Robert Livingston’s defense, hands down. A year ago, an offensive start like the Buffs had on Saturday would’ve doomed them to chasing the score the rest of the day. Instead, Livingston’s crew gave Shedeur Sanders & Co. time to figure things out, bottling up TTU’s run game and keeping the Red Raiders out of the end zone for…