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As hikers flock to Colorado 14ers, trail-building crews work to rescue the alpine tundra

Colorado Fourteeners Initiative has worked on 35 of the state’s 58 mountains higher than 14,000 feet, fixing ‘social trails’ created by climbers taking the most direct route to the summit

DATE: Aug 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S. rolls to women’s hoops gold medal in Bird’s last Olympics

SAITAMA, Japan — Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi walked off the basketball court together, arm-in-arm, one last time at the Tokyo Games. They started their journey together five Olympics ago and ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Peyton's Place is Hall of Fame, with Woodson, Megatron

CANTON, Ohio — Peyton's Place is now in Canton at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The only five-time NFL MVP and a two-time Super Bowl winner who left the game five years ago with a slew of p...

DATE: Aug 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Women send powerful message in Olympic track and field

TOKYO (AP) — They set records everyone saw coming and others that surprised the experts. They suffered, and battled, and spoke their truth in ways that hadn't been heard before. Over nine ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Japan has its best Olympic medal haul: 27 gold, 58 overall

TOKYO — Despite the pandemic, the one-year delay and the soaring costs, the Japanese public may still find a sweet spot for the Tokyo Olympics, the way it did for the storied 1964 Games. Why...

DATE: Aug 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics come to a nuanced end

TOKYO — It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ended with a typhoon blowing through and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything. The Tokyo Olympics, christened with “2020...

DATE: Aug 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Japan beats U.S. 2-0 to win first Olympic baseball gold medal

‘I really feel like we left it all out there,’ U.S. pitcher says YOKOHAMA, Japan — Japan's players sprinted onto the mound and the collection of All-Stars hoisted their manager up and down a...

DATE: Aug 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Full slate, at last, awaits hungry Wolverines

Bayfield to kick off Aug. 27 in Blanding, Utah

DATE: Aug 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Sumo removed, but equestrian course designer defends choice

TOKYO (AP) — A sumo wrestler that may have spooked the horses was knocked out of the Olympic equestrian ring Friday night, but the course designer is defending his decision to include the li...

DATE: Aug 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Southwest Colorado’s first Olympic medal in 2021? Coach is making history

Hovasse’s journey takes him from Durango to Penn State, the NBA, Japan and the medal round

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Biles returns to competition with a bronze medal and a smile

TOKYO — Simone Biles returned to the competition at the Tokyo Olympics in style, and will leave with another medal. What color it is really isn't the point. That she delivered a tense, heart...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

You again! Thompson-Herah speeds to second Olympic sprint sweep

TOKYO (AP) — It was billed as a star-studded race that anyone could win. So long as that person's name was Elaine. Elaine Thompson-Herah blew away a much-decorated field in the 200 meters Tu...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports