Author: Tyler King [email protected]
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Colorado position breakdown: Trio of transfers bring intrigue to linebacker position
In the Deion Sanders era, there’s a pretty evident correlation between good linebacker play and overall team success. In 2023, production wasn’t nearly consistent enough and the Colorado Buffaloes defense struggled on the whole to keep the team in games during a 4-8 season. In 2024, transfer Nikhai Hill-Green was a revelation, finishing second on…
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Friday Faceoff: How quickly can Colorado State win a Pac-12 football title?
The Pac-12 era arrived in Fort Collins on Wednesday. How quickly can Rams football win a championship in the new-look league? Tyler King, college sports reporter Answer: Within two years Athletic director John Weber didn’t hire Jim Mora to start another rebuild. CSU sold Mora on access to the College Football Playoff and Mora has…
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Colorado opponent preview: Plenty of turnover for Arizona State team still hoping to contend in Big 12
Kenny Dillingham came into the Big 12 guns ablazin’ in 2024. With the program’s first 11-win season in nearly 30 years, he led Arizona State to a conference championship in its first year in the league, nearly pulling off a stunning upset over Texas in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. The Sun Devils…
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Relaunch of Pac-12 a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ for like-minded football programs with high expectations
Just a few weeks from the Pac-12’s big reintroduction as a player in college athletics, commissioner Teresa Gould sat on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. She was just a few feet from Hall of Fame coach Nick Saban with Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua and longtime academic administrator E. Gordon Gee in between. She…
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Colorado State’s big move to Pac-12 is here, and Rams believe they have momentum behind them
FORT COLLINS — On Sept. 12, 2024, John Weber made the rounds on the local media circuit. Just a little over three months into his tenure as the full-time athletics director at Colorado State, Weber had a big announcement to make: the Rams were going to the Pac-12. It was a move decades in the…
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Meet the new Pac-12: Everything to know about 9 universities bringing back the West’s premier conference
Two years after the best of the West left it for dead, the Pac-12 has risen from the ashes. UCLA and USC was the first wave to exit. Then came Oregon and Washington and, later, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah, leaving Oregon State and Washington State behind to fend for themselves in the cutthroat…
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Colorado position breakdown: Brand-new defensive line room to rely on proven veterans
There was a clear philosophy shift this offseason in Boulder. In order to fix a defense that ranked last in the Big 12 in rushing defense and near the bottom of the conference in points per game allowed and sacks, Deion Sanders and his recruiting staff deviated from their typical approach of trying to bring…
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Four incoming DU Pioneers freshmen selected at 2026 NHL draft
Every one of the eight freshmen on the 2026-27 Denver hockey team will have one thing in common: they’re all NHL draft picks. David Carle’s program rounded out its incoming freshman class by seeing the final pair of players hear their names called Saturday on the second day of the 2026 NHL draft. Calgary, Alberta,…
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Daxon Rudolph becomes highest-drafted player in Denver Pioneers history at NHL draft
Daxon Rudolph has made Denver hockey history months before the puck is set to drop for the season opener in October. The incoming freshman defenseman was selected No. 4 overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2026 NHL draft, becoming the highest-drafted Pioneers player in program history. The 18-year-old out of Lacombe, Alberta, was rated…
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Colorado opponent preview: Kansas State enters new era led by Loveland native Collin Klein
Only five college football teams have played against Colorado more than Kansas State. With the likes of Nebraska and Oklahoma not in the new-look Big 12, the natural rivalry between the Buffaloes and Wildcats has become more pronounced in recent years with K-State coming across the border to nab talented players from along the Front…