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Stat line: 19 of 33, 216 passing yards, two touchdowns, an interception; six carries for 61 yards.Highlight: The highlight from Nix’s performance wasn’t even a passing play. In the third quarter, Nix escaped a sack from edge rusher Bud Dupree before scrambling for an impressive 21-yard gain while pointing at linebacker Daiyan Henley as he ran out of bounds. The plays following Nix’s best run of the season: Incompletion, incompletion, delay of game, illegal formation and incompletion. In the fourth, Nix connected with wide receiver Courtland Sutton for one of the best touchdown catches of the season. Nix lofted a…

On the Broncos’ 17th offensive snap Sunday afternoon, they finally managed a simple accomplishment.They found themselves, for the first time, on the Los Angeles Chargers’ side of midfield.The 45-yard line, to be exact.Instead of chugging any further, though, running back Javonte Williams fumbled and the first real drive of any promise for Denver was snuffed before it had a chance to develop.So, too, were the Broncos’ chances in any realistic way a few minutes later when Los Angeles punched home a backbreaker of a touchdown with a minute to go in the first half.The Chargers dominated the opening 30 minutes…

Inside Colorado’s aging school buildings, black mold forces educators to teach students outside during warm months. Sewer problems prevent toilets from being flushed and render water fountains and sinks unusable. Classrooms don’t have air conditioning, meaning temperatures can reach into the low 90s indoors.And then there’s the growing paradox metro Denver school districts find themselves in: K-12 enrollment is declining statewide, but new housing developments are reshaping where children live, creating a need for new schools despite buildings closing elsewhere. But all of this takes money to fix and build, which is why the leaders of Colorado school districts are hoping…

BOULDER — The pass bounced to the grass, and Will Sheppard threw up his hands in disbelief. Then Folsom Field let the boos rip.CU did not get a pass interference flag on its last offensive play in a 31-28 defeat to Kansas State, a call which would’ve extended the Buffs’ final drive and perhaps led to another dramatic Big 12 win in Boulder.“It looked like it was pass interference to me,” CU head coach Deion Sanders said. “It was tough. I didn’t want to end (the game) that way. I just know we were fighting down the field, and once…

Republican Jeff Hurd and Democrat Adam Frisch each entered the 3rd Congressional District race with a parallel goal: Unseat U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert.For Hurd, a Grand Junction lawyer who jumped in the race in August 2023, the chance would be in the mostly Western Slope district’s June primary. And if he didn’t prevail against Boebert, then Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman, would await a rematch this fall as the Democratic nominee — after narrowly losing to her two years ago in one of the most surprisingly close results of that year.But both their strategies were forced to shift in late…

Three decades ago, a pivotal moment in the history of women’s baseball took place in an office in Golden.There, in the summer of 1993, promoter Bob Hope presented his idea of a women’s professional barnstorming team to Coors Brewing president W. Leo Kiely and chief marketing officer Bill Weintraub.With the box office success of “A League of Their Own” the summer before catapulting the sport nationally, the brewery bought the pitch. And in 1994, the Colorado Silver Bullets started a four-year run playing against men’s minor league, semi-pro, college and independent teams.Silver Bullets’ Kathy Morton slides on a steal to…

It took less than 24 hours for Jennifer Gardinier’s family to grow from three people to eight, with the youngest new member still in diapers and the oldest close to graduating high school.Getting a state foster care certification that would allow the Weld County family to receive financial help would take significantly longer.The children arrived at her home in Dacono in August 2023, and while the caseworkers were helpful in getting clothes, car seats and other items they needed immediately, the first check to partially offset the costs of feeding a much larger family didn’t come until November.Gardinier and her…

FORT COLLINS — The chip Jack Howell carried around on his shoulder for the past week didn’t weigh him down. In fact, it inspired him and his Colorado State teammates.“No one hung their head,” the senior linebacker said after Colorado State’s impressive 31-24 win over San Jose State on Saturday afternoon at Canvas Stadium.“We see everything that everyone writes about us, right?” Howell continued, referring to the feedback after the Rams’ gut-wrenching, double-overtime loss at Oregon State. “That just puts a chip on our shoulder. This team is fired up. … This team is well-knit. I think you could see…

BOULDER — George Solich doesn’t hate the players. But he’s starting to hate the game.“I think college football is in an odd situation,” the CU grad and longtime Buffs booster told me recently. “It’s a very odd, difficult state right now, with the NILs being the wild, wild West. It’s kind of like ‘farm club’ football. I think it’s very difficult to see where it’s going.”I’ll tell you exactly where it’s going: straight to Solich’s checkbook. And straight into the bank accounts of every CU fan or booster who wants to keep a toehold on the Coach Prime Gravy Train.Tennessee…

Federal judges this week rejected a class-action lawsuit brought by an Aurora councilwoman against the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services after a social worker tried to frame her for child sexual abuse.Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky accused the department and ex-employee Robin Niceta of violating her Constitutional rights to due process and equal protection after Niceta called a child abuse hotline in 2022 to fraudulently claim that Jurinsky had molested her own son.Niceta was found guilty of felony attempting to influence a public servant and misdemeanor false reporting of child abuse last year. She pleaded guilty to additional…