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By BYRON TAU, The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS — Administrators at the University of Colorado’s campus in Colorado Springs thought they stood a solid chance of dodging the Trump administration’s offensive on higher education. Located on a picturesque bluff with a stunning view of Pikes Peak, the school is far removed from the Ivy League colleges that have drawn President Donald Trump’s ire. Most of its students are commuters, getting degrees while holding down full-time jobs. Students and faculty alike describe the university, which is in a conservative part of a blue state, as politically subdued, if not apolitical. That…

The ghosts of Nolan Arenado are almost gone. Almost. When the Rockies released left-handed starter Austin Gomber on Friday, the club severed ties with the last remaining player acquired in the infamous 2021 trade that sent the disenchanted Arenado — and $51 million — to the Cardinals. Arenado, the 10-time Gold Glove third baseman and eight-time All-Star, was the centerpiece of what’s widely viewed as one of the worst trades in Colorado sports history. I know many fans who turned their back on the Rockies because of the trade and have never returned. Gomber nearly lasted five full seasons with…

As recently as Wednesday, Broncos special teams coach Darren Rizzi made things abundantly clear: Denver’s staff still hadn’t settled on its final 53-man roster. “There’s still some meat on the bone there, and there’s some guys that still have some work to do,” Rizzi said. “And they can show some stuff in this last game.” The preseason’s now come to an end, though, with Denver’s 28-19 win over the Saints on Saturday in New Orleans. A few positional battles have resolved themselves with roster movement — like this week’s trade of receiver Devaughn Vele — while others are still coming…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen and Jared Triolo hit two-run home runs an inning apart to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night. Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle spoiled the shutout with a ninth-inning home run. McCutchen opened the scoring in the second with his 12th home run of the season, pulling it just inside the left-field foul pole. Triolo hit his home run an inning later to make it 4-0. He added a triple in the fourth and scored on Bryan Reynolds’s double. The 2-for-4 game lifted his batting average above…

Today is Saturday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2025. There are 130 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug 23, 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (On the 50th anniversary of their executions, then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted.) Also on this date: In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason. In 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the…

Go East, Young Rockies. Or south. Or southeast. Whatever. Just get the living daylights out of the National League West. Move the heck out of the same division as the Dodgers, Giants and Padres. It’s extremely rare that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says something that the baseball guys on the Grading The Week (GTW) staff agree with. It’s even more rare when Manfred gives us a snippet of actual, genuine hope to cling to. But the commish, in a passing as rare as Edmond Halley’s comet, somehow managed to give us both at the start of the week. Manfred said…

FORT COLLINS — Jaxxon Warren went up for a JuCo Hail Mary and came down with an FBS future. In 2023, Warren was playing in the Champs Heart of Texas Bowl to conclude his first season at Navarro College. A quarterback in high school and at the start of his college career, Warren switched to tight end early in the season for Navarro — a leap of faith that paved his way to arriving at CSU last year. “There were like five seconds on the clock in the first half, and we just decided to throw it up to Jaxxon…

Eli Cox owns the barstools at My Boy Tony, and now the ground they sit on, too. “I just want to keep it as something good for the community,” he said. Cox and business partner Mark Hansen, who owns the backpack brand Topo Designs, purchased the real estate for their bar at 4280 Tennyson St. last week for $1.6 million, according to public records. No immediate changes are planned. The 1,620-square-foot corner retail building has an outdoor patio and a single apartment upstairs. It traded for $957 per square foot, which Cox said “wasn’t dramatically less” than the appraised value.…

A large Coke bottling plant near Denver International Airport, expected to create hundreds of jobs, was beset by missed deadlines and communication problems and ultimately fell through after Xcel Energy failed to supply electricity to the site, according to city documents and a Denver City Council member. This setback adds to mounting frustrations from developers about Xcel’s ability to deliver power to proposed metro area projects, although the utility insists that wasn’t the case with the bottling plant. City Council member Stacie Gilmore, who represents Denver’s Far Northeast District 11, along with several other members of the council, approved a…

When Hilltop’s Tree House hit the market in summer 2023, Jon Troshynski and Eddy Doumas worried whoever bought the midcentury modern would tear it down. The 3,000-square-foot home in the 100 block of N. Dexter St., once featured in a 1969 Life magazine article, was designed by Richard Quinn for Dr. Herbert Rothenberg. Sitting on a 10,000-square-foot lot near Cranmer Park, the house, constructed in 1967, is notable for its wood siding, which is unusual for midcentury modern architecture. Calling the home a charming time capsule, Troshynski, a realtor with Compass-Denver, and Doumas, the owner of Worth Interiors, bought it…