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Initial observations from the CU Buffs’ 28-10 loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Deion Sanders’ first visit to Lincoln, Neb., as the Buffs head coach.Goin’ deep: Every time the Buffs suit up, they bring the two best players onto the field with them in QB Shedeur Sanders and ironman Travis Hunter. The problem? There are still 20 other guys out there. And when CU faces a team like Nebraska, the pecking order for Nos. 3-22 skews too heavily in favor of the other guys. Sanders and Hunter (10 catches, 110 yards) are legit “Gonna play on Sunday” stars. But at…

Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Scorpio.Happy Birthday for Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024:You are confident and have strong views. Many don’t get to see your private self because you often blend with the group. This is a year of learning and teaching. You might renew your spiritual or religious beliefs. Explore ideas that give you better awareness of yourself.ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★★“And just like that” everything fell into place. This is a much easier day! Many of you will make great headway doing research or working alone or behind the…

The 2024 Rockies are making the wrong kind of history.In their 5-2 loss to Milwaukee on Saturday night, the Rockies struck out 15 times as they continued their march toward ignominy.They have now whiffed 1,485 times, the most in the National League, and are well on pace to eclipse the franchise record of 1,543 Ks set last season. On the current road trip, the Rockies have whiffed 75 times, an average of 15 Ks per game over their first five games of the nine-game trip.The Rockies’ 75 strikeouts over five games are the second-most by a team over any five-game…

LINCOLN, Neb. — Bring up Deion Sanders, and Rodney Lousberg can spot a jealous Nebraska fan from the Middle of Nowhere.“Every (Cornhuskers fan) goes, ‘He’s egotistical,’” Lousberg said of the Buffs’ second-year football coach before CU kicked off against rival Nebraska on Saturday night at Memorial Stadium. “I’m like, ‘Yeah. We knew that when we hired him.’“That’s what their thing is. I think everybody wants to beat Deion Sanders. They want him so bad. I think that’s what made ’em mad the most is, we’re actually in the prime-time (slots) even though we’re not that good.”Lousberg is a rare breed…

Colorado State wide receiver Tory Horton (14) reacts after returning a Northern Colorado punt to score a touchdown during the Colorado State Rams football game against the Northern Colorado Bears at Canvas Stadium at Colorado State University in Fort Collins Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (Photo by Alex McIntyre/Special to The Denver Post)A group of Northern Colorado defenders wrap up Colorado State running back Justin Marshall (29) during the second half of the Colorado State Rams football game against the Northern Colorado Bears at Canvas Stadium at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. The Colorado…

Kris Bryant, who has struggled with injuries throughout his unproductive, three-year tenure with the Rockies, could be done for the season as he continues dealing with a chronic lower-back injury.“He’s doing better. He’s feeling good,” manager Bud Black told reporters in Milwaukee on Saturday before the Rockies played the Brewers.But Black also said: “You know, in the NFL, you’ve got ‘probable,’ ‘questionable,’ and ‘doubtful.’ I’m going to say it’s questionable, but we’re running out of time.”Bryant, 32, has played just 159 games since signing a franchise-record, seven-year, $182 million free-agent contract in the spring of 2022.  He continues exercising and…

Thousands of Anthem BlueCross BlueShield customers who bought an insurance plan that said it included UCHealth got a surprise earlier this summer when they learned the health system actually wasn’t in-network.Anthem sells two general types of plans on the individual marketplace: those labeled Pathway, which include UCHealth hospitals and doctors, and Pathway Essentials, which don’t. The plan description on the Connect for Health Colorado website mistakenly listed UCHealth as in-network for both types of plans.Vince Plymell, spokesman for the Colorado Division of Insurance, said the division discovered the mistake earlier this year and required Anthem to reprocess some claims it…

Jamal Murray has agreed to a four-year, $208.5 million max contract extension with the Nuggets, a league source confirmed to The Denver Post on Saturday.Murray, 27, has one season remaining on his current deal before the extension takes effect, keeping him under contract in Denver until 2029. The two sides paused contract talks earlier this offseason, with the Nuggets planning to offer a max after the conclusion of the Paris Olympics, sources said. Murray suited up for the Canadian national team, which won its group but was eliminated in the quarterfinals without a medal.Murray’s efficiency struggles from the 2024 NBA playoffs carried…

On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition.Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and fitted with respirators, the crew members toiling in a building without power had no obvious respite from the heat. Instead, they wore armbands that recorded their heart rates, movements and exertion levels for signs of heat stress.Stephanie Miller, a safety and health manager for a U.S. government contractor doing cleanup work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, watched a computer screen nearby. A color-coding system with…

The westbound Interstate 70 off-ramp to Colfax Avenue in Aurora will close for about two weeks starting Monday because of the city’s I-70 Picadilly Interchange Project. The project will close the off-ramp Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Sept. 20. The ramp will be open Saturdays and Sundays, according to the news release. To access Colfax Avenue during the closures, drivers can continue west on I-70 and exit to Tower Road, the release said. The ramp is closing so crews can perform direct work in the I-70 median to build the project’s diverging diamond interchange, which…