DP - In a nod toward the environment, CU will begin offering “lightweight aluminum” cups to fans during the 2019 football season at Folsom Field. CU’s athletic department, which debuted a first-of-its-kind Division I sustainability program in 2008, will be the first in the nation to offer such cups to fans at a collegiate venue, according to a CU-Boulder news release.The cups were designed in partnership with Ball Corporation, and will be available for the first time when the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ visit Saturday for the Buffs’ home opener. In a move that parallels with the environmentally friendly atmosphere of Boulder, Colorado, Folsom Field is debuting their new lightweight aluminum cups this Saturday when the Buffs take on Nebraska. These aluminum cups will take the place of their plastic predecessor but will currently only be offered for beer purchases (expect the transition for soda and wine products to come sooner than later). CU, and Boulder in general, has always been an incredibly environmentally conscious place and so this move should not come as a surprise to anyone. If anything, it came kind of late. However, I am a little suspect at the timing of the roll out of these new "lightweight" (wink, wink) aluminum cups. Nebraska and Colorado was a pretty intense rivalry in the 1990s and 2000s and was filled with horror stories of opposing fans who dared to show up to their rivals home stadium. I know Rick George went on a long rant today preaching civility between fan bases this Saturday but maybe that was all lip service? Maybe the arming of drunk fans with aluminum cups is exactly what this rivalry needs? A battle royale of tens of thousands of drunk CU and Nebraska fans can give this rivalry the shot of adrenaline it needs to get back to the good old days. Decades from now fans will refer to this game as the "Cup Game". Sure maybe it'll be a black eye for the sport and maybe a few hundred people will have to be rushed to the hospital, but wouldn't it be worth it to see this rivalry return to what it once was? On a more serious note, I've always thought the horror stories from opposing fans attending away games seemed a bit overblown and they always tended to come from a 3rd or 4th party source. "My cousin's roommate's best friend's brother made the drive from Lincoln to Boulder in the late 90s. When they left the stadium, they found that their car and been completely torched! Nothing but ashes we left all because the car had Nebraska plates! Can you believe how hostile and violent CU fans are!?!?!?" Don't get me wrong, back in the day I'm sure some bad things have happened to both Nebraska and CU fans alike. I just think those days are long gone and Saturday is going to come and go with little to no incident. #IdRatherBeDeadThanRed #GoBuffs
0 Comments
Denver Post - LOS ANGELES — The Pac-12 will move its football championship game to Las Vegas in 2020 and 2021.
Commissioner Larry Scott announced the decision Wednesday at the start of Pac-12 media day in Hollywood. The league title game has been played at Levi’s Stadium in suburban Santa Clara, California, since 2014. The event has struggled for solid attendance in the past half-decade, including a noticeably empty stadium for Washington’s win over Utah last year. Seemingly everything the Pac-12 touches from Larry Scott to the Pac-12 Network fails. Well for the first time since accepting Colorado to join the conference, The Pac-12 has knocked one out of the park. Las Vegas is infinitely a better location for the championship game than Santa Clara. Simply because no one can get to the stadium as the conference stubbornly demands that kick off starts in the middle of rush hour on a Friday. Literally, no one wants to go to that game and it's a black eye for the entire conference. Thankfully, folks will now have legitimate incentives to go see their school try to qualify for the playo... an NY6 game. Stop by the sports book to lay a few units on your alma mater, day drink at the pool, stumble over to the stadium and then hit the clubs to celebrate a conference title. That sounds like a pretty damn good weekend to me. And maybe, just maybe, we'll no longer see an empty stadium for the biggest Pac-12 football game of the year. Go Buffs.
I'm sad, I'm disappointed and I'm hurt. Does this mean that I will now disavow Alex Tanguay? No, no it does not. I guess when you score the game winning goal in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final you get that kind of leeway. But I'd be lying if I said that there wasn't a slight pain in my chest when this tweet stumbled upon my timeline. This is like seeing your best mate date a girl that is wildly entitled, arrogant and out of touch with reality but you're a good friend and you know the best course of action is just to let him go knowing that one day he will learn from his mistakes and ultimately become a better person for it (damn that was a really long sentence. Should I have broken that up? I don't know, I suck at grammar). I know you're reading this Alex, so I just want you to know that it's okay and that you can always come back. The boys will forgive you.
Okay, full disclosure, I do not have 1000 reasons why the Rockies shouldn't trade Charlie Blackmon. If forced, I'm sure I could come up with them, but I write this blog for free and I don't have the time to take on that task. Moving on.. Folks in Denver need to pump the brakes on blowing this whole thing up. Yes, the Rockies are having a wildly disappointing season up to this point but that in no way means we need to go into a full blown rebuild. We can all recognize that spending on the bullpen 2 years ago has been nothing short of a complete and utter failure. And we can accept that letting the franchise's greatest 2nd baseman ever walk for nothing in free agency was a mistake. Lastly, losing Otto has noticeably hurt this team but I'm pretty that him signing with New York was much more an Otto decision than a Rockies one. But on the flip side, just because Freeland and Marquez are having "sophomore slumps" doesn't mean we won't see them return to their 2018 form. In fact, I would bet money that we will see them return to the level we saw last year. Don't forget this team is coming off of back-to-back postseason appearances for the first time in team history and were only one win away from winning their first division title. The core to be a contender is still there (Arenado, Story, Blackmon, Dahl, Freeland, Marquez and Gray). So it is incredibly frustrating to see people so quickly be willing to jump ship. This team has three seasons to prove to Nolan that they can compete long term and fans want to pull the plug in July of year 1? It's fucking unsalted nuts. Can we at least wait until Arenado officially opts out before we all completely lose our minds? It's safe to say that coming into this season, most eye balls were on Colorado's McKinley Wright IV. And for good reason, too. Wright was by far the best player on the roster, had a huge breakout season last year and for all intents and purposes was going to be the reason the Buffs made a run at the tournament. We also had the Evan Battey story line. Battey was a victim of the NCAA's own incompetency and in-cognizance. If you don't recall, Battey was ruled ineligible due course work that occurred his freshman year in High School. Since that time, Battey has been a model student and there was no logical reasoning to punish a kid for something that happened so long ago, especially given the NCAA's lack of consistency when dealing with academic scandals. Battey also suffered a stroke that forced him to undergo intense physical therapy that included relearning how to talk.
So as the 2018-19 college basketball season was about to get underway, the Buffs had two great story lines. Wright, the golden child and Battey, the comeback kid. As the season progressed, and fans and players alike rode the ups and downs that was the CU Men's Basketball Season. The 8-2 start, the losses to Indiana State and Hawaii, the 2-6 start in Pac-12 play and finally the 8-2 finish to conference play that saw the Buffs tied for 4th place at the end of the regular season. During this tumultuous season, one player emerged as one of the best players not just on CU but in the Pac-12, Tyler Bey. I love Tyler Bey and he has quickly become my favorite player on this team. This team is still at the bottom of the standings if Bey doesn't break out. He is the reason why the Buffs have a legitimate shot at stealing the Pac-12 tournament (seriously, I actually believe that). He leads the team in points per game, rebounds and blocks. This years turnaround does not happen if Bey doesn't become one of the Buffs and Pac-12's elite players. And today Bey, along with Wright, was named to the all Pac-12 1st Team. My word of advice: hammer the Buffs this week in Las Vegas. If you don't, then you're making a mistake. Bey and Wright are going to send this team dancing, I can feel it. MESA COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) — A man and woman from Utah – who are first cousins – crossed state lines into Colorado to get married. In Utah it is illegal for first cousins to get married unless they are 65 years old, or 55 if they can prove they are infertile.The legality of cousins marrying varies from state to state. Colorado allows it, so Angie and Michael Lee came here and got married in the Grand Junction area. The Lees are hoping to change the law in Utah and started a Care2 petition to gather signatures. “My first cousin and I have been in love with each other our whole lives but we are prohibited from marrying in the state of Utah where we live. We believe that the law is outdated and it needs to be changed so that we can socially legitimize our love,” they wrote on the website.
They're cousins! That's why! They're fucking (pun intended) cousins! Listen, I'm not one to throw stones. Lord knows I have my fair share of flaws and have done my fair share of stupid things. Let a thousand blossoms bloom as they say. But this little line caught my attention: "In Utah it is illegal for first cousins to get married unless they are 65 years old, or 55 if they can prove they are infertile." The official stance of the State of Utah is "Eh, we don't give a shit. We're just not going to let you ruin societies' collective gene pool while you indulge in your repugnant fantasy ". I respect that stance. But that brings me to my next observation. Isn't everybody infertile until they're not? Like how do you know? How do you prove you're not infertile until, you know, you fertilize that egg? It's like being innocent until proven guilty. Infertile until proven fertile. I feel like that should be written in stone somewhere. To continue this rambling stream of consciousness, I'm going to start using infertile as an excuse every time my mother tries to guilt trip me for having not given her a grandchild yet. My go to excuse used to be that she didn't recycle and that I couldn't "in good conscious bring a child into a world that she was actively trying to destroy". That lasted for about a year until she finally caved and started recycling (you're welcome, planet earth) and I've been looking for a new excuse ever since. Well now I have it - infertility. Brilliant.
Anything and everything that has happened in Colorado sports the past 24 hours.
Arenado Press Conference
I say this with 100% complete honesty and sincerity: I am in love with Nolan Arenado. If you're a Rockies fan how could you not be in love with him? He is on a path to go down as one of the best and most liked athletes in Denver's history. Not just Rockies history, Denver's history. The dude shits class. So now with Arenado locked up for the foreseeable future, maybe, just maybe, we can win a division title. Watch the full presser here: Vic Lombardi
Vic Lombardi is a Denver icon and we should all be thinking about him and sending him and his family nothing but love today. When Irv Brown passed away not too recently the amount of love and respect from others in the Denver sports media scene was colossal. Well Vic is my Irv Brown. Good luck today, Vic, and go kick cancer's ass! #FuckCancer UPDATE:
Thank god. Rest up, Vic. Denver will be waiting for you when you return. Westbrook Kid
I'm not going to indulge in the debate of fan proximity to players during NBA games. Anyone with half a brain knows that touching a player is a huge no-no. Just can't be violating that boundary between audience and playing field. That said, you know this kid is an absolute LEGEND at his school now. Can you imagine how cool it must be to go viral at that age? That kid was shown and talked about on every single sports show today. We've talked a lot about Denver legends in this blog today. Nolan Arenado, Vic Lombardi and now Westbrook kid. Oh yeah, and the Nugs got the win. That's the Roundup, see you all tomorrow.
To say that was a 'cocaine-themed' party is quite the stretch. In that video there were four costumes that were featured and only two of them had to do with cocaine. Two! That's 50% which would be an F in every school in America. If only 50% of the attendees adhered to the theme then the Broncos must really suck at following directions. (For the record, I don't think the Broncos suck at following directions. I just think Vance Joseph sucks at giving them).
Plus the costumes were actually pretty good. Tryone Biggums? Hilarious! I do have to make one observation though. Would anyone think it would be strange for a wealthy professional athlete to do a little booger sugar while at a party? Probably not. So would it be bad judgement for a pro athlete to dress as someone who's famous for doing coke and then film yourself and put it on social media? I could see how some would think that. But I also think people take Halloween costumes too seriously and those costumes were hilarious and that party looked dope. PS - Maybe instead of working on your social game, someone should have kept a closer eye on Chad. Just saying. DP - Chad Kelly, the Denver Broncos backup quarterback, was arrested early Tuesday morning in Englewood on suspicion of first-degree criminal trespassing after he randomly entered a couple’s home and was beaten by the homeowner with a vacuum-cleaner tube, an arrest affidavit said
God dammit, Chad! It's a bad day to wake up as a member of #TeamSwag. I don't think anyone in Denver is confident in Kennum being the future of this team at QB and Swag Kelly was the one glimmer of hope we were holding on to. I've been #TeamSwag since training camp and now that all could be over and that sucks. Kelly has a very well documented history of getting himself into these situations. And now we can add 'beaten by a vacuum-cleaner tube while drunk in some random person's house' to the top of that list. Beaten by a vacuum-cleaner tube, jesus christ. If Kelly has a substance abuse problem, then I hope he gets the help he needs and I hope he gets it fast. However, if Kelly is just a dumb ass with horrible judgement and ends up never being the starting QB for the Denver Broncos, well then at least we'll always have this picture. Oh, and that kneel down at the end of the 1st half that one time. That was awesome. |
TylerSick of the medium sized markets and their west coast bias? Well then this blog isn't for you. Archives
July 2019
Categories |