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CSU Rams QB Clay Millen giving coach Jay Norvell reasons to smile: “He’s a different guy.”

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

FORT COLLINS — News flash: There’s nothing funny about getting thrown on your back five or six times per game, right? It’s a lot easier for Clay Millen to smile in the huddle when his head isn’t on a stinking swivel.“Yeah, for sure,” the CSU Rams sophomore quarterback said earlier this month. “I’m definitely enjoying it a lot more than last year.“I think that I took it a little bit too seriously to start out. You know, we weren’t winning games. And it wasn’t fun. And I think that I was a little too hard on myself almost.“But I think this year, I’m just enjoying myself. I’m having fun — having fun with my teammates.”How’d you get there? Bowling? Wordle? Yahtzee?“Just (being) more outgoing, (being) more goofy,” Millen replied. “Don’t be just so tense and uptight. Just go talk to my guys and enjoy it, hang out with them.”Even a world of post-COVID collegiate eligibility, Mountain West time goes by awfully quickly. Although last September’s 0-4 ...

Will Colorado ever host another U.S. Open? Cherry Hills Country Club is determined to make it happen

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE — Around the back of the clubhouse at Cherry Hills Country Club, surrounding the 18th green, the gallery pulsed. It was the second day of the U.S. Amateur Championship featuring a field full of future PGA Tour talent, and as golfers finished out, a murmuring tension that only premium players can summon dominated the air.It felt like the return of primetime golf in Colorado — and possibly a prelude for something much greater.Since the last men’s major was held in Colorado in 1985, the state’s hosted plenty of notable golf tournaments such as the U.S. Amateur. But the fact remains it’s been 38 years since that ’85 PGA Championship at Cherry Hills, and 45 years since the club held the third of the state’s three U.S. Opens.So what gives with the state’s major drought? And does Colorado, a cold-weather state with an above-average golf appetite, have a chance to land another major amid its decades-long absence from the game’s biggest stage?“Absolutely Colorado h...

Rookies Brenton Doyle, Nolan Jones are Rockies’ guardian angels in the outfield

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

Silver linings are tough to find during a Rockies season clouded by mounting losses.But last Tuesday night, in an 8-5 loss to Arizona at Coors Field, four highlight-reel moments captured the talents of rookie outfielders Brenton Doyle and Nolan Jones. The quartet of plays also served as a reminder that speedy, athletic players are essential to a Rockies rebuild.Think of them as Colorado’s guardian angels in the outfield.The plays:• In the first inning, Christian Walker smashed a ball 413 feet to center field only to see Doyle make the catch before he collided with the wall. Walker shook his head as he headed back to the dugout.• In the fifth, the baseball rocketed off Tommy Pham’s bat at 104 mph and headed toward the gap in left-center field. It looked like a double, for sure, and possibly a triple.But Jones, reading the ball perfectly off the bat, sprinted 123 feet from his spot in left field and robbed Pham of extra bases. Jones crashed chin-first into the wall. He was shake...

Keeler: CU Buffs quarterback Shedeur Sanders isn’t Cody Hawkins. Just ask Cody Hawkins.

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

BOULDER — Shedeur Sanders is no Cody Hawkins. Just ask Cody Hawkins.“First of all, I know everyone was (hacked) off when (Deion Sanders) said, ‘Hey guys, this is your quarterback,’” Hawkins, the former CU QB, son of ex-Buffs coach Dan Hawkins and first-year football coach at Idaho State, told me by phone earlier this week.“(Coach Prime) wouldn’t play Shedeur if he didn’t think he was the best guy.“I was (sometimes) a bad QB, but I was the best guy we had …Shedeur is a good QB. People want to pooh-pooh the (Football Championship Subdivision) level. But I know they’re going to get it right.”He’s 35 now. A grizzled 35. Hawkins still loves CU, loves his Buffs, in spite of it all, even if Boulder aged him quickly. Some CU faithful still haven’t forgiven his dad, and vice versa. (The elder Hawkins, now heading into his seventh season at UC-Davis, politely declined a request to be interviewed.)But if anybody knows what’s coming for Sanders, as both CU’s QB1 and son of the new Buffs coach, ...

Walters: Political squabbling undermines effort to fight homelessness

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

Since Gavin Newsom began his governorship more than four years ago, the state has spent upwards of $20 billion on efforts to solve – or at least reduce – California’s worst-in-the-nation homelessness crisis.The spending continues, but the number of people living on the streets, in squalid camps or in ramshackle motorhomes and trailers continues to climb.That sad fact was underscored recently by a new census of homelessness in Los Angeles County, which has a quarter of the state’s population but nearly half of its homeless people. The study found a 9% rise in the number of homeless people in the county to 75,518, with more than half (46,260) in the city of Los Angeles.“The homeless count results tell us what we already know – that we have a crisis on our streets, and it’s getting worse,” said Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which conducted the count.The census not only depicts a worsening problem, but illustrates the difficulty Los Angel...

What is ‘slugging’ and why are more Va. commuters doing it?

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

More commuters in Virginia’s George Washington Region — also known as Planning District 16 — are “slugging,” according to a recent survey conducted by GWRideConnect, a Fredericksburg-based free ride-sharing service.What is slugging?The term originated in the 1970s, describing a form of carpooling that involves a driver picking up nonpaying passengers at a specific location and dropping them off at a destination that has been agreed upon in advance.In the morning, sluggers gather at locations like park-and-ride facilities or bus stops, and drivers will pull up to the queue for the route they will follow and display or call out their drop-off point and how many passengers they can accommodate. It can be considered a hybrid form of carpooling and hitchhiking, with all parties benefiting from the arrangement, as drivers are able to access HOV lanes with additional passengers, and the riders travel for free.More Va. ‘slugs’ on the roadOn Aug. 8, surveyors co...

Women’s World Cup Live Updates: Earps stops Hermoso penalty as Spain holds 1-0 lead over England

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — Live updates from the Women’s World Cup final between England and Spain:___England goalkeeper Mary Earps stopped Spain from taking a commanding lead in the Women’s World Cup final when she saved a Jenni Hermoso penalty kick. Hermoso’s attempt in the 69th minute came after Keira Walsh was called for a handball violation. The penalty was called after a VAR review. Spain holds a 1-0 lead after Olga Carmona scored in the 29th minute. ___England has picked up its play in the second half of the Women’s World Cup final while trailing 1-0 to Spain. The improved offense has been a reprieve for England goalkeeper Mary Earps, who has been tested throughout and was forced to make another huge save early in the second half. Aitanna Bonmatti fired a strike from outside the area in the 51st minute. The ball was slightly deflected and Earps had to adjust to steer the ball away from the corner of the net. It started a flurry of action as two minutes later, Lauren Hemp...

Richardson and 3 rivals advance easily through 100-meter heats at worlds

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson, Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Shericka Jackson and defending champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce all won their 100-meter heats at world championships Sunday to stay on course for a showdown in what could be the most unpredictable final of the nine-day track meet. Richardson, the American national champion, crossed the finish line in the day’s fastest time, 10.92 seconds. She pretended to flick some sweat off her brow — no big deal, not that anyone expected that in the first round.Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican who is seeking to tie a record by winning her sixth world championship in the same event, was slowing down as she crossed the line in 11.01.All in all, it was a low-drama start to what might be the best race of the meet, and a possible preview of more to come at the Paris Olympics next summer.Later on Sunday, American Fred Kerley was set to defend his 100-meter title, with Noah Lyles also in the mix. Lyles, a 200 specialist who is runn...

Con el título en la Leagues Cup con el Inter Miami, Lionel Messi es el futbolista más ganador de la historia

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

(CNN Español) — Está claro que Lionel Messi no llegó a Inter Miami de vacaciones, o para estar lejos de las presiones. En un puñado de semanas, el crack argentino rescató al equipo de los últimos lugares de la Major League Soccer y le dio el primer título de su historia, tras vencer en la final de la Leagues Cup a Nashville, por penales.Claro que ese título es aún más especial para Messi: se trata de la conquista número 44 para la “Pulga”, lo que lo ubica como el futbolista más ganador de la historia, superando por uno a su excompañero en el Barcelona de España Dani Alves.Resumen del título del Inter Miami de Lionel Messi en la Leagues CupMessi había sido campeón en mayo de la Ligue 1 con el Paris Saint Germain, en lo que fue una tibia despedida de su paso por el fútbol francés. Esa celebración sucedió al gran logro de la carrera del crack sudamericano, tras la consagración con le selección argentina en el Mundial de Qatar, en diciembre de 2022.Mira el detalle de t...

Stepping up: Rai Benjamin alters stride pattern in quest to chase down gold at worlds in 400 hurdles

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:36:29 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Rai Benjamin is taking even bigger steps this season to try to get what his top rivals in the men’s 400-meter hurdles already have — a title from a major meet.The American altered his racing pattern in between the 10 hurdles, mixing in a longer stride cadence for better tempo and more speed leading into his finishing kick.Benjamin’s ready to upgrade his trio of silver medals in track’s major races into gold this week at the world championships. He wants to join the company of his main rivals, Norwegian Olympic champion and world record holder Karsten Warholm, along with reigning world champion Alison dos Santos of Brazil, in the winner’s spot.Their rivalry, along with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s record-setting performances in the women’s version (she’s not competing this week), are why the 400 hurdles have turned into must-watch TV these days.“Cool to spearhead this new-found niche, the 400 hurdles, because we’ve run so fast and we’re conti...