White was an All-American football halfback for the Colorado Buffaloes of the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he acquired the nickname " Whizzer " from a newspaper columnist.

Due to her success in high school football, she was invited to join the Colorado Buffaloes football team as a walk-on freshman placekicker by then coach Rick Neuheisel.

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* The Colorado Buffaloes are named the AP Poll champion.

Colorado Buffaloes competes in nine intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Pacific-12 Conference.

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* Laval Short-Former Denver Broncos and Colorado Buffaloes defensive tackle.

In college football it has hosted the rivalry game between the Colorado State University Rams and the University of Colorado at Boulder Buffaloes.

The first football game held was the Rocky Mountain Showdown, when the University of Colorado Buffaloes defeated the Colorado State University Rams, 41 – 14.

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It is also the flagship station of the Denver Broncos football team, the Colorado Rockies baseball team, and the University of Colorado Buffaloes.

Harrington's best collegiate game was arguably the 2002 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona when he threw for 350 yards and 4 touchdowns and led the Ducks to a 38-16 victory over the Colorado Buffaloes.

Later, he was named Most Valuable Player of the 1988 Freedom Bowl, after entering the game as a substitute and leading BYU to a come-from-behind 20 – 17 victory over the Colorado Buffaloes.

The Nebraska defense was dominated by the Buffaloes, however, and gave up a then-record 62 points to Colorado.

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Category: Colorado Buffaloes football players

At the University of Colorado, Brown was a four-year starter on the Colorado Buffaloes football team.

Colorado State University competes in 16 sponsored intercollegiate sports, including 10 for women ( cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, volleyball, basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, softball, and water polo ) and six for men ( football, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, basketball, and golf ).

Beginning in 1933, the first intercollegiate band was established, with musicians from the University of Colorado ( home of the Alpha Iota chapter ), the University of Denver ( Alpha Lambda ), Colorado State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts ( Kappa ), Colorado State College of Education ( Alpha Theta ), the Colorado School of Mines ( Xi ), and the University of Utah participating.

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ( RMAC ) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States, mostly in Colorado with some members in Nebraska and New Mexico.

Bob Sapp began his athletic career in high school playing football at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, CO.

Major open-air athletic facilities of the Colorado School of Mines include historic Brooks Field and Darden Field.

In 1903, the women's basketball team won CAC's first unofficial athletic championship, culminating with a victory over the University of Colorado.

Colorado State's athletic teams compete along with 8 other institutions in the Mountain West Conference, which is an NCAA Division I conference and sponsors Division I FBS football.

* The Colorado Buffaloes, the athletic program of the above school

The Western States 100 is sponsored by Montrail Corporation, a California athletic footwear company, and is one of the four 100-mile races that comprise the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning, which also includes the Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run, the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run in Utah, and the Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado.

Johnson, a native of Toronto, Ontario, was an all-star baseball player while he attended the University of Colorado on athletic scholarship, and was among his team leaders in the Big 8 conference in home runs, RBIs, and batting average.

He was awarded the Chopper Travaglini Award for his work in the Denver community, and has established the Ryan Bowen Family Foundation to help sponsor youth athletics, athletic facilities and college scholarships for children in southeastern Iowa and Denver, Colorado.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words " home team " are replaced with the team name, as is the case with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and several other Major League Baseball teams.

While Lindros became a preeminent star in Philadelphia, the trade proved heavily lopsided in favor of the Nordiques-soon to become the Colorado Avalanche-providing the core of their two Stanley Cup teams and an unprecedented eight straight division championships, with Forsberg becoming a franchise player.

In 1996, Major League Soccer's original ten teams ; Columbus Crew, D. C. United, New England Revolution, NY / NJ MetroStars, Tampa Bay Mutiny, Colorado Rapids, Dallas Burn, Kansas City Wiz, Los Angeles Galaxy and San Jose Clash, began play.

Of these four teams, only Edmonton has avoided relocation and renaming ; the Nordiques became the Colorado Avalanche in 1995, the Jets became the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996, and the Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes in 1997.

Women's teams competed in Division II and were once members of the Continental Divide Conference, then the Colorado Athletic Conference.

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

* Colorado State Rams, the sports teams of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Yzerman's knee greatly pained him during the 2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs, but this did not stop him from leading the Red Wings from an early 2-0 deficit in their opening round series to defeat the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues en route to Detroit's fifth playoff series with the Colorado Avalanche, and the third time the two teams had battled to decide the Western Conference Championship.

Coors and / or Molson are beer sponsors of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes, San Jose Sharks and all six Canadian teams.

* The Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins ( now Miami Marlins ) play their inaugural seasons ( both are National League teams ) as MLB expands for the first time in 16 seasons.

As Colorado were preparing to move into Dick's Sporting Goods Park for the 2007 season, the club re-invented themselves again to more closely align with the DNA and color scheme of other KSE teams, changing their colors to burgundy and blue, and creating a brand new shield logo to fit in with more traditional global soccer marks.

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" Smoky Joe " played his first amateur baseball for the local miners teams in Ouray, Colorado though a native of Ness County, Kansas, Wood made his playing debut with the mostly-female " Bloomer Girls.

Like the Dallas Desperados, the Crush's branding is partially based on NFL teams ( the Denver Broncos and St. Louis Rams, though to a much lesser degree ), which could give Pat Bowlen and / or Stan Kroenke a potential veto over any usage of the Colorado Crush branding.

Mines is the host of the annual Colorado State Science Olympiad, which draws teams from both the northern regional ( hosted at Poudre High School ) and southern regional ( hosted at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs ) competitions.

Among Major League teams, the Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies and Minnesota Twins have the most alternate uniforms, with three.

Nebraska was 13-0 in 1971 and a consensus national champion, defeating the next three teams in the final AP poll: Oklahoma, Colorado, and Alabama.

Six teams ( Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks ) are tied for second most with two Presidents ' Trophy wins apiece.