Tag: Colorado Buffaloes
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Colorado basketball game vs. Portland State to be played without fans due to ‘safety’ concerns
The CU Events Center will be closed to the public for Colorado’s men’s basketball game against Portland State on Wednesday night. Due to “high winds, power outages around Boulder, and potentially hazardous road conditions,” the game set to tip off at 7 p.m. will be played without fans in attendance. “Colorado Athletics apologizes for the…
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Colorado loses two key players to transfer portal
Deion Sanders’ job of rebuilding the Colorado roster just got a lot harder. After a 3-9 season, the Buffaloes will lose both wide receiver Omarion Miller and safety Tawfiq Byard to the transfer portal when it opens next month, both players confirmed via social media Wednesday. Miller had a breakout junior season at CU, leading…
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CU Buffs coach Tad Boyle not looking for moral victory after close loss to CSU Rams
FORT COLLINS — For weeks, Tad Boyle has felt like the boy who cried wolf. Even though Colorado was off to its best start (8-0) since the 1949-50 season, Boyle knew there was plenty of room for improvement, particularly defensively. The Buffaloes coach also knew Saturday’s game against rival Colorado State would be arguably the…
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Welcome back, Peter Forsberg and 1996 Avalanche, for Stanley Cup reunion | The Starting Lineup
Turn on the game! Three must-see events this week: 1. Colorado Christian at Denver basketball (7 p.m. Tuesday) — The Pios can’t stop a parked car, but Tim Bergstraser’s first DU team already owns sweet wins at Montana State and CSU. 2. Nuggets at Sacramento Kings (8 p.m. Thursday, Altitude TV) — So is it…
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Hot-shooting Colorado State holds on for thrilling win over rival Colorado
FORT COLLINS — Score one for the Colorado State math department and professor Ali Farokhmanesh. Just about every statistic suggested Colorado should have won Saturday afternoon. The previously unbeaten Buffaloes (8-1) were the more physical team, dominating in the paint. They were deep, scoring nearly triple the bench points as the Rams. They were more…
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Senior Jevin Muniz is the conductor of Colorado State’s high-powered offense
FORT COLLINS — Try and keep up with Ali Farokhmanesh’s offense if you can. After grabbing a pair of important nonconference wins over Wichita State and South Florida last week at the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas, Colorado State sits at 6-2 ahead of Saturday’s matchup (3 p.m. via CBS Sports Network) against in-state…
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Bangot Dak’s breakout season arriving at perfect time for unbeaten CU Buffs
BOULDER — A summer on the sidelines hasn’t had a negative effect on Bangot Dak’s junior season. When the Colorado men’s basketball team got a few extra weeks of practice ahead of a trip to Australia, during which they played three high-level games, Dak was forced to watch with a heavily wrapped knee as he…
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What is the GoGo offense? New Colorado OC Brennan Marion explains scheme
The GoGo offense is coming to Boulder. Deion Sanders has hired Sacramento State head coach Brennan Marion as Colorado’s offensive coordinator, the program officially announced Friday, after the Buffaloes boasted the second-worst offense in the Big 12. Marion is coming off a 7-5 season with the Hornets at the FCS level, his first as a…
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Deion Sanders, Colorado sign lowest-rated high school class in the Big 12
There were no signing day fireworks in Boulder this year. In his first three high school recruiting classes at Colorado, Deion Sanders was able to get one of the six highest-rated players, per 247sports, in program history. First, it was cornerback Cormani McClain, who’s now at Florida. Then, it was star left tackle Jordan Seaton.…
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Retaining JuJu Lewis, Jordan Seaton on offseason checklist for Deion Sanders and Colorado | Tyler’s Take
Deion Sanders said the work has already begun. After a 3-9 season, the worst of the Coach Prime era, the Colorado coach said the long road back to being a competitive program in the Big 12 started the day after the Buffaloes’ loss at Kansas State in the season finale. Rick George, the outgoing athletic…