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ORLANDO — If the Buffs can raise their game on the road for Deion Sanders, so can I.“I want you to have the same passion, the same commitment to blessing them and giving them encouragement and motivation as you do when you’re ripping them apart,” Coach Prime said after CU eviscerated previously unbeaten UCF on Saturday, 48-21.“And it’s only fair. This equality is only fair, when everybody, like these kids, have feelings and emotions.”You can win this Big 12, Coach.Said it.Mean it.Fair is fair.Your Buffs can win this darned league. This year. If you play like that? Every weekend, from…

A 27-year-old man who shot two of his Topgolf coworkers — killing one of them — in December has pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder.Victor Salazar-Guarache took a plea deal in Adams County District Court on Thursday, according to court records.Salazar-Guarache pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder, court records show. The plea deal dropped charges of first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree attempted murder and a violent-crime sentence enhancer from his case.The then-26-year-old Topgolf dishwasher was arrested in December after a midnight shooting in the parking lot of the Thornton Topgolf, 16011 Grant St., left one…

Initial observations from Colorado’s 48-21 victory over the Central Florida Golden Knights in the Buffs’ first Big 12 road game under head coach Deion Sanders.Strike a pose: All-everything CU junior Travis Hunter entered the day with the fifth-best cumulative Heisman Trophy odds, according to Vegas Insider, trailing Miami QB Cam Ward, Alabama QB Jalen Milroe, Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava and Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel. Sensing a theme? Yes, college football’s highest honor has gone to a quarterback seven of the past eight years. But at some point the best player in the game — Hunter is assuredly that — has…

Jared Bednar has been answering questions about the positives and negatives of playing his superstar forwards, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen, together versus apart, for several seasons.The start to this season offers the same potential storyline, but with a twist: The Colorado Avalanche will start the 2024-25 campaign without Valeri Nichushkin and Gabe Landeskog and is likely to be short Artturi Lehkonen as well.To this point in training camp, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Jonathan Drouin have skated together every day.“It’s a good question. Which one gives you more value?” Bednar asked. “You break up your top line if it’s not as…

Slowness in the wrong moments and a touch of misfortune doomed the Colorado Rapids against Minnesota United on Saturday night.It’s no surprise that the Rapids are better at home than they are on the road, but a somewhat troubling trend is emerging. In two straight games on the road against bottom-half Western Conference teams, the Rapids looked flat when it counted, only to pick it up too late. Most recently, the Rapids lost to Minnesota, 3-0.“Tonight is another reminder for us as players and as coaches that it’s not easy to win on the road, so to meet the demands…

Pope Francis took the unusual step this week of expelling 10 people — including a priest who leads a Denver-area church — from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru that has strong ties to Colorado, a decision that came after a Vatican investigation uncovered “sadistic” abuses of power, authority and spirituality.The move against the leadership of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, or Sodalitium of Christian Life, followed Francis’ decision last month to expel the group’s founder, Luis Figari, after he was found to have sodomized his recruits.The Peruvian Bishops Conference posted a statement from the Vatican embassy on its website that attributed…

By Elaine S. Povich, Stateline.orgWhen Tennessee state Rep. Bob Freeman, a Democrat, studied his cable and internet bill last year, he kept seeing recurring charges for app subscriptions he didn’t recognize. Turned out, his 14-year-old daughter had been signing up for subscriptions with introductory rates and never canceling when they rolled over to the full price.“I would question her bills, and she said, ‘Oh, it’s only $1.99.’ Those were teaser rates,” he said in an interview. To actually cancel, he said, he had to send an email to the company for a follow-up phone call, during which the company representative…

Deputies in an Arapahoe County drug bust Thursday seized tens of thousands of dollars in cash, methamphetamines, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, sheriff’s officials said.About 5 a.m. Thursday, Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies with the Special Investigations Unit served two narcotics search warrants and made several undercover drug purchases, the sheriff’s office said in a statement on social media.During the operation, deputies seized: 1 kilo of meth, valued at $6,000 to $15,000 in the United States, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 13,000 fentanyl pills, which could contain between 0.02 and 5.1 milligrams — more than twice the…

By BASSEM MROUEBEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who transformed the Lebanese militant group into a potent paramilitary and political force in the Middle East, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the group said. He was 64.Nasrallah, who spearheaded Hezbollah’s war against Israel in 2006 and got the group heavily involved in neighboring Syria’s brutal conflict, was killed in a massive Israeli airstrike on the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik Friday evening that knocked down several multistory apartment buildings.“His eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, had joined his fellow great martyrs whom he had led for 30 years from…

Psst, Nuggets fans: Got any hunches on the Powerball numbers?Team Grading The Week could use a sweet little influx of capital right about now. And right now, the way we see it, y’all are on a serious roll. Peyton Watson news aside, Friday night just capped maybe the best week to be a fan of the blue and gold since — what, June 12, 2023? The night of Game 5 at Ball Arena?Consider this: Over one 100-hour stretch, Nuggets fans saw:• An agreement to watch actual games, over the air, on Denver stations again;• A new, direct-to-consumer streaming service for…