On April 17, 2008, Colorado beat the San Diego Padres, 2 – 1, in a 22-inning road game that spanned 6 hours and 16 minutes.

After defeating the St. Louis Blues, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Colorado Avalanche in the first three rounds, the Wings went on to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in four straight games in the Stanley Cup Finals.

After sweeping the Colorado Rockies in 2 games in the preliminary round, the Flyers moved on to beat Buffalo in five games.

" The team would overcome Forsberg's injury ; in the Western Conference Finals, Colorado beat the St. Louis Blues 4 – 1 and progressed to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they faced the defending champion New Jersey Devils.

In the Western Conference Quarterfinals, Colorado beat the team with the second best record in the Western Conference, the Dallas Stars, in five games.

Cortina, which had originally been awarded the 1944 Winter Olympics, beat out Montreal, Colorado Springs and Lake Placid for the right to host the 1956 Games.

Again on the road, the Roughnecks beat the Colorado Mammoth with a final score of 13-11.

Northern Colorado won its first Big Sky Championship in 2009 when the Women's Volleyball team beat Portland State to capture the Big Sky Volleyball Championship.

In his senior season the team beat Colorado, Oregon State, and Wisconsin, all members of BCS conferences.

Other examples include a 64-yard pass from Colorado QB Kordell Stewart to WR Michael Westbrook to beat Michigan on 24 September 1994 ( Stewart's pass traveled 73 yards in the air, from the Colorado 26 to the opposite 1 yard line, was tipped, then caught by Westbrook 4 yards deep in the endzone ), the Bluegrass Miracle, a Hail Mary pass by LSU Tigers QB Marcus Randall with 2 seconds to go in the Kentucky-LSU game on 9 November 2002, and the Locket play, a Hail Mary pass by Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins to wide receiver Keith Nichol to beat Wisconsin on 22 October 2011.

In the meantime several highly-ranked teams were upset and in the final BCS rankings, Nebraska beat out one-loss Oregon and two-loss Colorado to earn the No. 2 spot in the BCS rankings.

In 1931 Carlson became the first Eastern coach to take a collegiate team westward, going on the road to beat the University of Kansas, the University of Colorado, Stanford, and the University of Southern California.

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad constructed a narrow gauge railroad over Tennessee Pass in 1881 as part of their extension to the Aspen area to beat the Colorado Midland Standard Gauge route to the rich mining area.

They put another 5 past Springfield in their very next game, beat Colorado Springs Blizzard 5-1 on the road, and were scoring at will throughout July: 4-1 over BYU Cougars, 5-4 over Kansas City Brass, 6-1 in the return game over Colorado Springs Blizzard, and 4-0 over Sioux Falls Spitfire on the final day of the regular season.

* Northern San Juan ( Mesa Verde and Hovenweep National Monument ) ( southwest Colorado and southeastern Utah ).

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

In a pivotal swing game that would either see the Rockies leave San Francisco with a 1. 5 game lead or a 3. 5 game lead, Colorado once again built a large lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on September 16.

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

Eruptions forming even larger calderas are known, especially La Garita Caldera in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, where the 5, 000 km < sup > 3 </ sup > Fish Canyon Tuff was blasted out in a single major eruption about 27. 8 million years ago.

The remnants of such clusters may be found in places such as the San Juan Mountains of Colorado ( formed during the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene periods ) or the Saint Francois Mountain Range of Missouri ( erupted during the Proterozoic ).

* Largest Explosive Eruptions: New results for the 27. 8 Ma Fish Canyon Tuff and the La Garita caldera, San Juan volcanic field, Colorado

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.

: Rivals: Arizona Diamondbacks ( Division ), Colorado Rockies ( Division ), Los Angeles Dodgers ( Division, geographical ), San Francisco Giants ( Division ), St. Louis Cardinals ( Post-Season ), Seattle Mariners ( Inter-league )

* April 9 – San Luis, the oldest permanent settlement in the state of Colorado, is founded by settlers from Taos, New Mexico.

During his years at Los Alamos, Ulam was a visiting professor at: Harvard, 1951 / 52, MIT, 1956 / 57, the University of California, San Diego, 1963, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1961 / 62 and 1965 / 67.

The San Luis Valley is an extensive high-altitude basin in the U. S. states of Colorado and New Mexico covering approximately and sitting at an average elevation of above sea level.

The San Luis Valley is the broad, generally flat, valley at the headwaters of the Rio Grande in north central New Mexico and south central Colorado.

There is no clear southern boundary but the term is generally used to include the San Luis Hills of southern Colorado and the Taos Plateau of northern New Mexico.

Within Colorado the San Luis Valley is generally considered to comprise six Colorado counties: Saguache, Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, Costilla and Mineral.

Subsequently it was adopted in other cities such as Denver, Colorado, New York, San Diego, Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D. C .. Barnes stated that he did not invent the concept but promoted its widespread use.

Such an event would be felt throughout much of Southern California, including densely populated areas of metropolitan San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Ensenada and Tijuana, Baja California, San Luis Rio Colorado in Sonora and Yuma, Arizona.

Charter members included Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV, Utah, and Wyoming.

The panel held four town hall meetings ( in Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, and San Diego ) to allow the general public to comment on the past, present, and future of Title IX.

The San Jacinto reservoir is an artificial lake used as a basin for the San Diego Aqueduct, a branch of the Colorado River Aqueduct, west of town.

Gardner was founded where the California Trail and Santa Fe Trail divided, sending travelers due west over the mountains and through Colorado and Salt Lake City toward San Francisco or through Sante Fe and Albuquerque toward Los Angeles and San Diego.

* John Vander Wal, retired pro baseball player ( Montreal, Colorado, San Diego, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, N. Y. Yankees, Cincinnati, Milwaukee ), current pro scout for San Diego Padres organization ; also holds the MLB record for pinch hits in a season ( 28 )

The southern border of California was designated as a line from the junction of the Colorado and Gila rivers westward to the Pacific Ocean, so that it passes one Spanish league south of the southernmost portion of San Diego Bay.

These include Interstate 8, leading from San Diego, California to the Arizona Sun Corridor where the cities of Phoenix and Tucson dominate, Federal Highway 2, which leads east to San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora and west to Tijuana, and Federal Highway 5 connecting San Felipe with Mexicali.

In 1975, some teenagers from Encinitas, California and other northern San Diego County communities began using diameter water pipes in the central Arizona desert associated with the Central Arizona Project, a federal public works project to divert water from the Colorado River to the city of Phoenix.

Ten are members of the Pacific-12 Conference ( Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State ), seven are members of the Big West Conference ( Cal Poly-SLO, Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Pacific, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara ), five are members of the Mountain West Conference ( Air Force, Fresno State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV ), five are members of the West Coast Conference ( BYU, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, San Diego, Saint Mary's ), three are members of the Western Athletic Conference ( Denver, San Jose State, Seattle ), two are members of the Big Sky Conference ( Northern Colorado, Sacramento State ), two are members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( Alaska-Anchorage, Seattle Pacific ), one is a member of the Big 12 Conference ( Oklahoma ), one is a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association ( UC San Diego ), and one is a member of the Great West Conference ( Houston Baptist ).

The best known is probably Vincent Jackson, who attended and played football at Northern Colorado from 2001 to 2004 before being drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 2005 NFL Draft.

There is also a Eugene Field Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Silverton, Oregon, Littleton, Colorado, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chicago, Illinois, Altus, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Hugo, Oklahoma and San Diego, California.

Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).