Missy Franklin likes texting, dancing in her basement, and having sleepovers with her friends from Regis Jesuit High School. She also happens to be the best female swimmer in the world and is poised to take home multiple medals from the London Olympic Games this summer. Meet the new face of American athletics.
How polo, the Sport of Kings, became the sport for an ordinary Colorado girl like me.
We sat down with the Purple Row’s Jeff Aberle to decide if the Colorado Rockies can save this season.
Get Involved: The BolderBoulder 10K.
Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio returned to regular-season baseball yesterday after a terrifying injury last summer.
In honor of the Rockies’ home opener (April 9), we asked 5280 editors to sound off on what song they’d want playing as they walked up to bat.
As prominent athletes tout the healing powers of sports-medicine procedures, the tools used by the pros and their doctors are trickling down to weekend warriors. But what really works, and what’s nothing more than hype? A look at the front lines of sports medicine in Colorado.
Who knew Todd Helton was six degrees of separation—or less—from a who’s who of celebrity culture?
The 30th anniversary of the Cherry Creek Sneak.
Remnants of America’s historic baseball stadiums sit in the Rockies’ backyard.
Every season, Rockies players pick the tune that’ll play as they stride up to home plate. At press time, 2012’s at-bat songs were still TBD, so we asked some of Denver’s bigwigs to choose a “walk-up” song for themselves.
