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Colorado has three years to lower ground-level ozone pollution to meet federal standards, and this summer’s hazy skies — caused by oil and gas drilling, heavy vehicle traffic and wildfire smoke — are putting the state in a hole as it’s already logged more dirty air days than in all of 2023.“Our state has taken a lot of steps to improve air quality, but you can see it in the skies, you can see it in the air, that we still have work to do,” said Kirsten Schatz, clean air advocate for the Colorado Public Interest Research Group.Two months into…

Attendance Did not practice: Physically Unable to Perform List — S Delarrin Turner-Yell (knee) and LB Drew Sanders (Achilles).  Injured reserve — OL Quinn Bailey (ankle/leg). Out — Brandon Jones (hamstring), Nik Bonitto (back), Ronnie Perkins (rest), Zach Allen (rest) and Justin Strnad (groin). Broncos veteran cornerback Levi Wallace left practice after the first team period due to a hamstring injury, said head coach Sean Payton. “We’ll know the significance of it (later),” Payton added. QB Race Today Denver’s sixth straight practice on Saturday focused heavily on teamwork from the midfield and in the red zone. Jarrett Stidham took No.…

By BERNIE WILSONSAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning and Martín Pérez pitched six strong innings in his debut for the San Diego Padres, who beat Colorado 3-2 on Saturday night to snap a five-game losing streak to the last-place Rockies.The Padres have won 10 of 13 since the All-Star break. They followed up a two-game home sweep of the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers by losing 5-2 to the Rockies on Friday night.After being held to one run and one hit in six innings by rookie Tanner Gordon, the Padres broke…

The early look at the NFL’s new kickoff rule in Thursday night’s Hall of Fame preseason game didn’t provide much interesting data.Broncos head coach Sean Payton doesn’t think the preseason as a whole will be much more fruitful. The veteran coach said Denver might use a joint practice with Green Bay to work on the real stuff, but otherwise figures most teams will play coy until the regular season.“Every team in the league will hold on to some of the things they want to do for Week 1,” Payton said. “I was talking to (former referee) Walt Anderson today and…

Westbound Interstate 70 reopened Saturday afternoon in Arapahoe County near Peoria after a crash involving a semi-truck.Related ArticlesJuly 29, 2024 Crashes and Disasters | One killed in crash on I-25 in Broomfield; highway re-opened after closure July 28, 2024 Crashes and Disasters | One killed, six injured in multi-vehicle Interstate 25 crash near Larkspur July 28, 2024 Crashes and Disasters | Two injured in rollover crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Eisenhower Tunnel July 27, 2024 Crashes and Disasters | RTD faces lawsuit after commuter train crashes into, kills bicyclist July 27, 2024 Crashes and Disasters | Student pilot’s flight…

The Daz is joining the Disney family.Former CSU Rams football coach Steve Addazio, whose Fort Collins tenure was short and tempestuous, is transitioning to television. ESPN announced that Addazio has joined the network as a college football analyst and will start calling games later this month.Addazio posted a 4-12 record at CSU from 2020-21 and had a 61-67 career record as a head coach with the Rams, Boston College (2013-19) and Temple (2011-12). He was fired at CSU in December 2021, a few days after completing a 3-9 season and after being ejected from a 52-10 home loss to Nevada,…

Some folks at 20th and Blake, including manager Bud Black, GM Bill Schmidt, and veteran pitcher Kyle Freeland, believe the Rockies are primed to turn a corner. For them, becoming a .500 team, maybe even a playoff contender, as soon as next season, is not a pipe dream.Color me skeptical.Not only are the Rockies likely headed toward their second consecutive 100-loss season, but the 2024 Rockies are not the 2016 Rockies, and that’s a problem.Related: Where do the Rockies stand? Results, game stories, highlights and moreThe ’16 season is largely forgotten — understandably so. Under manager Walt Weiss, Colorado finished…

By WILL GRAVESPARIS (AP) — Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this. Just maybe not too old to keep going.Maybe.Minutes after the American gymnastics star won the seventh Olympic gold of her career on Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that even at 27 she remains in a class by herself, she played coy when asked if the event marked the final time she would ever explode off the springboard in competition.While Biles allowed she was officially retiring her eponymous Yurchenko double pike vault because “I kind of nailed that one” at the Paris Olympics,…

A Denver police officer shot an armed man in a parking lot near Coors Field early Saturday morning.In a Saturday morning news briefing, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said a man was shot in the arm by a police officer around 2 a.m. in a parking lot near the intersection of 19th and Market streets.A person walking in the area flagged down the police officer — who was working crowd control in Denver’s LoDo district — and reported a man with a gun standing next to a vehicle in a nearby parking lot, Thomas said.When the officer went to investigate,…

Brenton Doyle stole the show.The Rockies’ Gold Glove center fielder upstaged lefty Austin Gomber’s seven-inning gem and Brendan Rodgers and Kris Bryant’s big nights at the plate in a 5-2 win over the Padres on Friday night at Petco Park.Doyle went “Air Jordan” to rob former Rockie Jurickson Profar of a home run in the eighth inning. Running at full speed, he leaped, reached over the wall and calmly snagged the ball. Reliever Tyler Kinley uttered, “Wow!” after Doyle’s magic act.“I feel like I’ve made a lot of cool plays out there and that one felt really cool to me,”…