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Fast break Why the Buffs won: CU outrebounded Oregon State 43-29 and held the Beavers to a .375 shooting percentage. Three stars: 1. Eddie Lampkin Jr.: CU’s big man set an early tone before finishing with 17 points and 11 rebounds. 2. KJ Simpson: It wasn’t Simpson’s best shooting day overall, but he went 3-for-5 on 3-pointers while recording 15 points, seven assists and four rebounds. 3. J’Vonne Hadley: CU’s jack-of-all-trades posted 15 points, seven rebounds and three assists without a turnover. Up next: CU will have a first-round bye at the Pac-12 Conference tournament before playing in the final…

Cubs 5, Rockies 0Saturday at Sloan Park On the mound: Starting pitcher Dakota Hudson’s rough streak continued. He allowed three runs on three hits over 2 1/3 innings. He’s now allowed five runs (four earned) over his last two starts. … RHP Peter Lambert tossed three scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out two. He hasn’t allowed a run in three of his four spring training outings. … Right-handers Tyler Kinley and Justin Lawrence each put up a scoreless inning. At the plate: Colorado could only muster a total of three hits. … Outfielder Sean Bouchard went 1-for-3. He struck…

The roster overhaul hasn’t been as big as it was a year ago – yet – but head coach Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes will once again be counting on several transfers to play key roles if they are to make some noise in their return to the Big 12 Conference this year. Sanders has said multiple times that he wanted to go out and get experienced starters through the transfer portal this offseason, and he’s certainly done that. Where exactly those transfers fit in and how much of an impact they’ll make remains to be seen, but here’s…

If you’re a Rockies fan, the preseason previews and predictions for the 2024 season are beyond dismal. Consider: • FanGraphs projects the Rockies to have an MLB-worst 0.1% chance at making the postseason in 2024. FanGraphs sees the Rockies finishing 63-99. • Baseball Prospectus projects a 57-105 record, two losses worse than the Rockies’ 103 losses last season. • ESPN predicts 57-105, the worst record in the majors. Yes, worse than the Oakland A’s. • Fansided says 60-102. • The wiseguys at BetMGM put the Rockies’ win total at 60.5. Oakland is the only team with a lower win total…

If Casey Mittelstadt scores a huge goal or sets one up with a beautiful pass for the Colorado Avalanche this spring, there is one member of the organization who will probably feel an extra twinge of pride. Mittelstadt’s career hit an unexpected low point in 2019-20, when the Buffalo Sabres sent their recent top-10 draft pick and a player who carried such high expectations to Rochester in the American Hockey League. Toby Petersen, now a skills coach for the Avalanche, was an assistant coach on that team. Things had not gone according to plan with the Sabres after joining the…

Lakewood police officers fatally shot an armed man in La Quinta Inn Saturday after responding to reports of shots fired. Officers ordered the man to drop his weapon, but fired on him when he came toward the officers instead, according to a Saturday news release from the Lakewood Police Department. Around 7:15 a.m., Lakewood officers responded to reports of shots fired on the fifth floor of La Quinta Inn at 7190 West Hampden Avenue, the release stated. When officers arrived, they found the armed suspect — a white man in his 40s — in the hallway and ordered him to…

Meet the new Avs, deeper than the old Avs. For the moment, also more discombobulated than the old Avs. On a helter-skelter Friday night all about the five fresh faces in Jared Bednar’s lineup, winger Valeri Nichushkin scored an overtime, power-play winner in his first game action in nearly two months to lift Colorado to a 2-1 victory over Minnesota. “To be able to come out after not playing for as long as it’s been for him and go get the OT winner, there’s no better start to his return,” Bednar said. A positive finish, indeed, to Bednar’s get-to-know-you mixer…

Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Pisces. Happy Birthday for Saturday, March 9, 2024: You are adventurous, courageous and admired by others. Strong and independent, yet you’re sensitive and can be easily offended. This is a slower paced year. Take time to rest and rejuvenate your energy. Focus on personal relationships and concentrate on your own needs. Find people who have your back. ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★Tread carefully, because this is an accident-prone day. You might have strong feelings and suddenly overreact or do something spontaneous that triggers an…

The dream of streaming — watch what you want, whenever you want, for a sliver of the price of cable! — is coming to an end. With all the price increases for video streaming apps like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Hulu, the average household that subscribes to four streaming apps may now end up paying just as much as a cable subscriber, according to research by Deloitte. To name a few of the price jumps for streaming video (without ads) in just the past year: Amazon’s ad-free Prime Video is now $12 a month, up from $9; Netflix raised…

By MATT O’BRIEN (AP Technology Writer) ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Intel and OpenAI. Figure is less than two years old and doesn’t have a commercial product but is persuading influential tech industry backers to support its vision of shipping billions of human-like robots…