Sports
Youth Sports
USA Football model takes new approach in developing players
Coach John Galligan, left, directs players during a Rookie Tackle youth football game in Islip, N.Y.Ralph Russo/Associated Press file “Too many people look at football as X’s and O’s. ……
College Sports
NCAA moves toward allowing athletes to be paid sponsors
Recommended rule changes that would clear the way for athletes to earn money from their names, images and likeness are being reviewed by college sports administrators this week before being…
High School Sports
Ignacio Bobcat bosses react to CHSAA’s spring sports cancellation
Coaches continued to work hard to prepare for possible season
Sports
Hundreds expected at South Dakota races despite virus
Governor urges caution but won’t interfere
Professional Sports
Agents, players pleased with no NFL draft delay
Agent Leigh Steinberg and his agency represent 12 NFL draft-eligible players, including a pair of first-round prospects: Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and Jerry Jeudy.Chris Carlson/Associated Press file While some teams expressed…
Professional Sports
Roger Federer calls for merger of men’s and women’s tennis tours
Switzerland’s Roger Federer has raised the prospect of merging the governing bodies that oversee the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours.Dita Alangkara/Associated Press file The 20-time Grand Slam champion’s comments…
College Sports
Expect college football to take slow road back from coronavirus
Pro sports leagues can get creative with solutions to save their multibillion-dollar businesses. College sports will take a slower road back. “The most at-risk sport of starting up again, in…
Sports
London man climbs apartment stairs barefoot in Everesting effort
And then there’s Rob Ferguson. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and ambassador for Arcteryx, he is a photographer and writer who says he likes to focus on the…
Professional Sports
Woods, Mickelson to stage TV match with Brady, Manning
Tiger Woods, left, talks with former NFL player Peyton Manning during the pro-am round of the 2019 Memorial golf tournament in Dublin, OhioJay LaPrete/Associated Press file And this time, they’ll…
Professional Sports
Red Sox get off easy in sign-stealing scandal
already had parted ways with suspended manager
Sports
Steamworks Half-Marathon canceled
A previous edition of the Steamworks Half Marathon begins near Baker’s Bridge.Durango Herald file The Steamworks-Animas Valley Half-Marathon, originally set for June 6, has been canceled given the current health…
Professional Sports
Minor league baseball prepared to accept cut to 120 affiliates
Elias Ruiz, front right, and Steven Woytysiak, both from C&H Baseball, help install a 35-foot-high safety netting that runs behind home plate and along the length of each dugout at…
Sports
New data lead to new testing, results for NFL helmets
As the NFL and NFLPA continue to evolve testing around what are the best models of helmets for players to wear, all 35 models of helmets were tested and rated…
Professional Sports
A lost season? Minor league teams, players face bleak future
What does minor league baseball look like in the COVID-19 age? What happens if his Class A team plays only half a season? And the big one: What if there…
College Sports
NCAA: Players ejected for targeting can remain on sidelines
The Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the rules change no longer requiring players to head to the locker room after targeting is confirmed. All other aspects of the rule discouraging…
Professional Sports
MLB players say pay shouldn’t be cut if empty ballparks
A large flag is unfurled during the national anthem before an opening day baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium in New York.…
Professional Sports
Rob Gronkowski to have reunion with Brady in Tampa Bay
end comes out of ‘retirement,’ will be traded to Bucs
Professional Sports
John Elway’s name is all over Broncos’ long draft history
A historical look at Denver’s draft history
High School Sports
CHSAA: 2020 spring sports canceled by coronavirus
athletes, coaches feel the sting of lost opportunities
Outdoors
Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge to allow fishing, expanded hunting
Conservationists supportive as long as hunters and fishers stay within approved areas
Professional Sports
Sports leagues seek return but with no guarantees
Virtually all leagues talk publicly about their desire to return before summer. But behind closed doors, they are hatching different potential plans: all 30 baseball teams playing in Arizona; home…
Professional Sports
Resume to play plans for sports leagues
Key stakeholders confirmed, however, that they have less optimistic backup plans. Some of the options include, holding the basketball and hockey playoffs in September, kicking off college football in the…
Professional Sports
Spain to finish soccer season without fans
Stadiums to be empty aside from team personnel
College Sports
Amos, Freeburn ready to add to Fort Lewis College cycling legacy
Durango teenagers Riley Amos and Cobe Freeburn both announced this week they would join the prestigious Fort Lewis College cycling team when they begin studying at their hometown college in…
Professional Sports
Coury unstraps snowboard to join frontline fight of COVID-19
Paralympic medalist back to nursing during pandemic
High School Sports
Heinicke heading to Mines to play men’s soccer
captain leaves Demons a star player, student