It has become an all-too-common scenario: a thoroughbred suffers a ghastly injury before a packed grandstand and a national television audience and has to be euthanized by injection on the track. This past Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, an undefeated…
Read MoreOne Dead After Sports Riot. (It Was a Goat, and It Was Already Dead.)
Frequently, spectators are angry with the refereeing at a game. Once in a while, that anger spins out of control, and people are hurt. And very rarely, this happens over a sport that involves a goat carcass. Let’s set the…
Read MoreGil Brandt, 91, Dies; Helped Make the Cowboys ‘America’s Team’
Gil Brandt, who in nearly 30 years as a scout and talent evaluator helped build the Dallas Cowboys into a National Football League powerhouse, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 91. His death, in hospice care, was announced by…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Man
Ray Knight scored one of the most famous runs in baseball history, jumping onto home plate and into a sea of gleeful Mets teammates to end Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. It was a wild outpouring of joy…
Read MoreCaroline Wozniacki Is Getting Very Good at Comebacks
America likes to fancy itself the land of second chances. Show some humility. Work hard. A new you, or perhaps a better version of the old you, is just around the corner. So perhaps it’s fitting that comebacks have featured…
Read More‘The Right Thing to Do’: Starter Throws 131 Pitches in One-Hitter
Clinging to a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning on Tuesday, Alex Cobb of the San Francisco Giants fired his 125th pitch of the night — an 89-mile-an-hour splitter — and Cincinnati’s Spencer Steer lined it to center…
Read MoreCollege football predictions: How Air Force, CU, CSU, UNC will fare
Colorado Date Opponent Time TV Sept. 2 at TCU 10 a.m. FOX Sept. 9 Nebraska 10 a.m. FOX Sept. 16 Colorado State 8 p.m. ESPN Sept. 23 at Oregon TBD TBA Sept. 30 USC TBD TBA Oct. 7 at Arizona…
Read MoreOns Jabeur Struggles to a First-Round Win at the U.S. Open
As Camila Osorio hugged Ons Jabeur at the net following their match on Tuesday, she almost looked as if she were holding Jabeur upright. Jabeur was exhausted and drained, sweat saturating her tennis uniform. She had managed to defeat Osorio,…
Read MoreJacob Sirmon named starting quarterback for the University of Northern Colorado football team
Jacob Sirmon, who played in seven games at quarterback in 2022 for Northern Colorado, will be the starting quarterback for the Bears’ season opener Thursday at Abilene Christian. Sirmon, a senior and transfer from Washington and Central Michigan, was listed…
Read MoreAt the U.S. Open, Frances Tiafoe Picks Up Where He Left Off
The last time Frances Tiafoe was playing a match inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, it was under the lights last year in front of a teeming crowd of 23,000, roaring with every point, as he tried to topple Carlos Alcaraz, the…
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