The Olympics start this week, and if you’re a Coloradan, there’s one person you’ll be watching more closely than all the others: swimming wunderkind Missy Franklin, whose showing in London could portend historic future achievements.
What will happen when Peyton Manning takes the field as a Bronco? Who the heck knows? But we couldn’t resist taking a few guesses.
Fresh off a national championship with the University of Alabama, Colorado State University’s new head football coach, Jim McElwain, thinks he can remake the hapless Rams. He’d better, because his bosses are counting on a newly energized football program to do a lot more for CSU than simply win games.
Shake up your yoga routine with equestrian yoga.
Forget the sit-and-reach stretching you did during high school gym.
Three Front Range soccer programs to watch this fall.
Durango’s Fort Lewis College looks across the pond to become a soccer powerhouse.
For baseball fans in Colorado, it’s been one big bummer this summer. We asked Purple Row blogger Rafael Rojas Cremonesi if there’s a reason to hope for better things next season.
Colorado’s newest Olympian heads to training camp.
Colorado swimmer Missy Franklin finished second in the 200-meter freestyle on Thursday night to qualify for her second Olympic event. How many more events can she line up for London?
Coloradan Missy Franklin qualified for the London Olympics in the 100-meter backstroke.
Colorado teenager Missy Franklin swims tonight for a place on the U.S. Olympic team.
Bob Roll, a 13-year veteran of professional cycling, now commentates pro cycling’s most renowned races: the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, the Tour of California—and, of course, next month’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge. When he’s not following the buzz of the peloton in Europe’s peaks and valleys, he heads home to Durango, where he’s lived for more than 25 years.
Take on the gravity-defying sport of downhill mountain biking.
Wash Park’s volleyball scene.
