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By JOHN WAWROW (AP Sports Writer) ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Love was in the cold Buffalo air with Taylor Swift cheering on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night. And even Kelce’s brother Jason got into the act during the Chiefs’ 27-24- victory in a divisional playoff game. Swift blew a kiss after someone greeted her by yelling, “Bills by a billion,” upon arriving at Highmark Stadium. The pop music superstar was escorted by a heavy security presence to a suite overlooking the west end zone, and located just below the name of Bills Hall…

PHILADELPHIA — The Colorado Avalanche has more than 40 percent of the regular season still to play, but it might have two of the four forwards lines for Game 1 of its Stanley Cup Playoffs run in place. Everything about the regular season is about building towards the playoffs for the Avs, because the expectations are clear: championship or bust. Coach Jared Bednar has tinkered with his lineup combinations, but two trios have come into focus over the past 20 games. One is first line with Jonathan Drouin as the third guy next to superstars Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen.…

The draft horse, mule and donkey show took place at the National Western Stock Show in Denver on Jan. 21, 2024. The show highlights the sheer force of today’s draft horses with the 8 hitch teams of draft horse competition, the draft/mule feed team race finals and open mule barrel races. This was the last day of the National Western Stock Show. Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter. source

Raquel Pennington joined an exclusive club on Saturday night. The Colorado Springs native defeated Mayra Bueno Silva (10-3-1) via unanimous decision at UFC 297 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto to win the vacant women’s bantamweight title. With the win, she became just the third Colorado-born fighter to win a UFC championship, joining Shane Carwin and Benson Henderson. “It’s surreal,” Pennington said during the post-fight news conference. “It’s 14 years of hard work coming together.” The title was vacated in June when then-champion Amanda Nunes announced her retirement following her win over Irene Aldana at UFC 289. Pennington (16-8) has…

Early Tuesday evening, Todd Helton will anxiously wait for his phone to ring, hoping for a life-changing call. Chances look good that the Rockies icon will be told that he’s been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s by no means a slam dunk that Helton will be a member of the Class of 2024, but he’s trending in that direction. Helton, in his sixth year on the ballot, needs at least 75% of the vote by eligible members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America to make it to Cooperstown. As of Friday, he was garnering 83.4%,…

Did you partake in any Black Friday sales last year? The annual shopping event following Thanksgiving, named black Friday for its ability to get retailers “back into the black,” had retailers concerned in 2023. With prices rising everywhere thanks to persistent inflation, would consumers cut back on their spending? Ultimately this fear proved unnecessary. Not only did American consumers spend, but they upped their online spending by 7.5% over last year according to data from Adobe Analytics. And some 200 million Americans took advantage of Black Friday, according to the National Retail Foundation. That’s roughly 75% of adults in this…

Rockies first baseman Todd Helton is in his sixth year on the ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. If elected, Helton will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. on July 21. Like former teammate Larry Walker before him, one of the primary arguments against Helton’s Hall of Fame case has been the number of games he played in the thin air of Coors Field. Still, there are plenty of numbers to back up his case. Here are some highlights from his 17-year career: • Played his entire career with the Rockies, and leads the…

Noting that vodka is cheaper than therapy might be gallows humor for some people, but for Kristen Logsdon, it was a serious calculation — and one that nearly killed her. Logsdon, of Colorado Springs, drank only occasionally for most of her adult life, but around 2009, the stressors piled up and alcohol became a way of self-medicating her feelings of worthlessness, since she couldn’t afford health care. Having drinks after her daughter went to bed was a way to power through an unhealthy relationship and one terrible year where she went through a divorce, lost her job and had three…

A driver fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run crash pushed a second vehicle into an RTD bus in Aurora, critically injuring that vehicle’s driver, Aurora police said on X. The second crash happened on South Parker Road just east of Interstate 225, Aurora police reported at 4:10 p.m. The driver was fleeing the hit-and-run and crashed into the second vehicle, pushing it into an RTD bus’ path at an intersection. The second vehicle’s driver was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but police said they expected that person to survive. Some bus passengers also were taken to a hospital…

Colorado offensive lineman Justin Mayers, left, poses with Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders during a visit to the Boulder, Colo., campus in Dec. of 2023. (Photo courtesy of Justin Mayers) Justin Mayers wasn’t at Colorado this past season, but he knows exactly why he’s here now. The Buffaloes’ offensive line struggled during a 4-8 campaign in 2023, with Shedeur Sanders being the most-sacked quarterback in the country. Head coach Deion Sanders has done something about it, adding five transfer offensive linemen, as well as the top line recruit in the country in Jordan Seaton. A sixth-year senior who spent five…