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The parting gift for Rockies fans on Sunday afternoon was a gem from veteran left-hander Kyle Freeland and a crisp 3-1 victory over the Angels. In the final game of the season at Coors Field, the Rockies managed only four hits, but it was enough with Freeland on the mound. “It’s great to finish off with a win at home,” said Freeland, who earned the 65th win of his career, surpassing Jeff Francis for the fourth-most wins in franchise history. “It’s definitely not the season we wanted — at all. But it was nice to have a good quality baseball…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Inside the Broncos locker room, there were yellow towels strewn across the floor and red faces in front of cameras. A proud team in need of results to match its mouth had a chance to paint itself in brilliant colors. Instead, they painted themselves into a corner. Three weeks into the season, the Broncos trail the Chargers by three games in the AFC West. There’s no excusing this mess. No spinning this into anything positive. The Broncos gagged again. They ruined September and all that talk of a fast start by getting walked off for the second…

Multiple inches of snow are expected in Colorado’s high-elevation mountains early this week, according to the National Weather Service. The most impactful winter weather will hit elevations above 10,500 feet, but snow will be possible as low as 9,000 feet, according to the weather service’s Boulder office. Snow and ice will create hazardous conditions between late Monday and early Wednesday, forecasters said. The winter weather has the best chance of reaching lower elevations, near 9,000 feet, early Tuesday morning. “This could impact travel across higher mountain passes and bring hazardous conditions to alpine backcountry areas,” weather service forecasters wrote on…

As a student of markets, I believe history is a roadmap for the future. The past may not repeat, but it certainly tends to rhyme. So when I came across “A History of the United States in Five Crashes” by Scott Nation, I was hooked. Beyond a simple recounting of events, the book weaves in regulatory missteps, economic forces, and even investor behaviors that turned boom into bust. The five covered crashes — in 1907, 1929, 1987, 2008 and 2010 — offer insight into how markets unravel and, more importantly, how investors’ behavior and discipline can hurt or help. Nation…

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share their mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer? Email bellis@denverpost.com. – Barbara Ellis “A Slowly Dying Cause,” by Elizabeth George (Viking, 2025) George follows her typical, successful formula, but with intriguing new details in her latest Lynley crime novel. A murder in Cornwall. Too many potential suspects. A distracted lead investigator. Inspector Lynley and loyal sidekick Sgt.…

JULESBURG — The town hall in the far-northeastern corner of the state wasn’t billed as specific to one topic, but as soon as Colorado’s attorney general opened the floor to questions, there was clearly a dominant one on the minds of many in rural Sedgwick County. “Are we going to lose our water?” a woman seated near the front asked at the event earlier this month — the first question of the night. Residents of the Eastern Plains community have found themselves caught in the middle of a political dispute over water between Nebraska and Colorado. Nebraska’s renewed plans to…

There is only one NHL player who’s survived a cheetah attack, occasionally loses a few large snakes and once convinced Canadian customs to let through a collection of knives. There is only one Brent Burns. Now 40 years old, Burns signed a one-year contract with the Avalanche in July. He’s still chasing his dream to win the Stanley Cup. Burns is also still the same guy he has always been — the most interesting man in the NHL — as he enters his 22nd season. He’s posed naked on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. He had a two-episode run…

The NHL had its first significant salary cap increase in years, and yet the summer of 2025 will be remembered as … kind of a snooze. It turns out that giving NHL general managers more financial flexibility just made the days leading up to July 1 one big reunion party. One player in the NHL’s top 50 scorers last year — Mitch Marner — now plays for a different team than he did at the end of last season. None of the 32 goalies who won at least 20 games changed teams. Only two of the top 40 defensemen by…

With global bragging rights hanging in the balance, a Colorado connection came through. At the USA Flag World Championship in Tampa in January 2023, the Apex women’s team, featuring quarterback Lacey Abell and wideout Sarah Massucci, trailed in the second half and faced a critical fourth-down conversion. On the play, the Arvada West co-head coach was pressured, rolled right out of the pocket, and fired to Massucci on a dig route downfield. Massucci made an incredible snag, Apex scored on the drive, and the club’s first world title underscored the Lakewood residents’ rise to the highest level of American flag…

Spurred by President Donald Trump’s demands that the GOP redraw districts for maximum advantage, red and blue states alike have introduced or are publicly considering new congressional maps with explicit partisan tilts. Control of the U.S. House of Representatives hangs in the balance — along with the investigatory, impeachment and legislative authority that a majority in the chamber entails.  But Colorado won’t be a theater in this latest political battle. Not in time for the 2026 election, at least. The state’s voters in 2018, and a Colorado Supreme Court opinion issued 15 years before that, put a kibosh on redistricting in…