NHL experiencing sustained growth with female, younger fans

CBS Denver (Sports) 6/25 10:37A Denver and Colorado Sports updat

(AP) One of the biggest stories in the NHL this season has been the increase in viewers in the league s first year of its television contracts with ESPN and TNT. The league is also seeing unparalleled...

Former Regis Jesuit star Fran Belibi says she couldn’t make leap to starring in commercials without...

The Denver Post (College Sports) 6/21 1:45A Sean Keeler

Once Fran Belibi heard the pitch, stuffing a basketball for Denny’s sounded like a slam dunk. “What really got me was their approach behind it,” Belibi, the Stanford women’s basketball forward and...

Former Regis Jesuit star Fran Belibi says she couldn’t make leap to starring in commercials without...

The Denver Post (Sports) 6/21 1:45A Sean Keeler

Once Fran Belibi heard the pitch, stuffing a basketball for Denny’s sounded like a slam dunk. “What really got me was their approach behind it,” Belibi, the Stanford women’s basketball forward and...

Avs Fans Witness First Stanley Cup Final Disappointment

CBS Denver (Sports) 6/20 5:36P Denver and Colorado Sports updat

DENVER (CBS4) – Fans packed into the lower sections of Ball Arena at $20 a seat Monday night for an indoor watch party as the Avalanche played on the road. It was fun, until it wasn’t. The Avs 6-2...

Colorado women continue to face harassment, discrimination in schools despite five decades of...

The Denver Post (Sports) 6/20 2:00A Noelle Phillips

The sexually infused environment in Meghan Smith s master s program at Colorado State University was evident almost as soon as she enrolled in 2018. Her mentoring professor hosted an annual Christmas...

The Top 50 most influential women in Colorado sports history

The Denver Post (Sports) 6/16 2:00A Kyle Newman

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, The Denver Post ranks the Top 50 most influential women in Colorado sports history. The rankings are based on the combination of athletic achievement and impact on women s athletics....

Colorado is producing some of the world’s best female athletes 50 years after embracing Title IX

The Denver Post (College Sports) 6/16 1:45A Noelle Phillips

Two women raced fast across an Ohio soccer pitch, too fast for their opponents to catch. Mallory Pugh of Highlands Ranch whipped a pass toward the other team s goal, then Windsor s Sophia Smith tapped...

From iPods to $200,000 homes, here’s what life was like the last time the Avs won the Stanley Cup

The Denver Post (Sports) 6/13 8:14A Tiney Ricciardi

For those of you who are counting, it has been 21 years since the Colorado Avalanche last appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals. So, as the team prepares to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning starting...

Keeler: Nazem Kadri isn’t just Avalanche’s Stanley Cup MVP. He’s turning Muslim kids in Denver into...

The Denver Post (Sports) 6/2 6:35P Sean Keeler

Unlike Oilers goalie Mike Smith, the kids from Crescent View Academy saw Nazem Kadri coming. “Those that endure the most,” Crescent View senior-to-be Jenayin Wazwaz said with a knowing smile before...

Bartlett’s Conrad Luczynski, 7-foot-3 and growing, looks to expand game at Missouri prep school:...

The Denver Post (Sports) 5/20 8:58A Tribune News Service

It seems unfathomable, really. Bartlett s Conrad Luczynski stands 7-foot-3, weighs 250 pounds and has continued to improve his game and athleticism over the past 18 to 24 months. Even so, the talented center continued to wait this spring for the...

Former Broncos linebacker Von Miller lists Foxfield mansion for over $4M

The Denver Post (Sports) 5/18 11:00A Lily O Neill

Seven months removed from his last game as a Denver Bronco, linebacker Von Miller has put his 18,745-square-foot mansion in Arapahoe County up for sale. Miller, who was an outside linebacker for the Broncos from 2011 until last October, when he...

Class 5A state track preview: Grandview boys favored to repeat; Riley Stewart and Cherry Creek the...

The Denver Post (Preps) 5/18 1:45A Kyle Newman

Chris Faust has won two boys titles and two girls titles during his tenure as Cherokee Trail s track and field coach, so he knows what it takes to climb the podium at Jeffco Stadium. That s why even...

It’s David Peterson’s time to shine

The Denver Post (Sports) 5/16 8:15A Tribune News Service

The Mets suffered several losses over the weekend. They lost two of their three games against the Mariners. Those pair of L s gave them their first series loss of the year . On top of that, breakout sensation Tylor Megill went on the 15-day...

A rite of spring returns as Colfax Marathon races attract 16,000 runners

The Denver Post (Sports) 5/15 10:50A John Meyer

With lilac bushes in full bloom near the starting line in City Park, the Colfax Marathon returned to its traditional position as a rite of spring for Colorado runners on Sunday for the first time since the pandemic. The city s largest running...

Naperville North graduate James O’Shaughnessy gushes about joining Chicago Bears: ‘It’s a sentence...

The Denver Post (Sports) 5/13 10:18A Tribune News Service

Depending on traffic and the time of day, it takes about an hour to drive from Naperville North to the Chicago Bears practice facility in Lake Forest. But when James O Shaughnessy was growing up and playing football under the Friday night lights...