Colorado Times: 03/22/14

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Gators savor sweet taste of victory, trip to Sweet 16

ORLANDO — Incredibly, the No. 1-seeded Florida Gators still have some doubters, who are waiting for the trap door to open and justify their belief that Billy Donovan’s team doesn’t have the right stuff to win an NCAA title.

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The Right Stuff: 1980s roaring back; Romney voters were warned

Tom Jackson’s conservative opinion column is published each Sunday. The Right Stuff blog is updated throughout the week at tbo.com/tomjackson/

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Colorado Eagles end road trip on a high note after late rally, shootout win

Late in Saturday's game it looked like the Colorado Eagles were going to suffer a disheartening loss to end a six-game road trip.

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Sporting KC Earns 1-0 Victory Over San Jose

Sporting Defeats San Jose 1-0

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MLB 2014: Cardinals among NL favorites again

Stephen Strasburg leads a deep rotation in Washington. Matt Holliday and St. Louis are back again. And the loaded Los Angeles Dodgers think it's their time to shine.

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Boulder Philharmonic's new season to trumpet 'Legends'

The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra's theme for its 2014-15 season will be "Legends: The Spirit of Boulder," the group told its subscribers and supporters Saturday in announcing its upcoming schedule.

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CU women's basketball: Lappe's Buffs move on

Fast breakWhat went right?: Colorado scored 51 points in the second half after going 6-for-20 from the field in the first half What went wrong?

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Avs' Giguere making most of final season

Career highlights• Drafted in the first round in 1995 by the Hartford Whalers. • After playing for Hartford, Calgary, Anaheim and Toronto, signed with the Avs in 2011.

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Death notices, March 23, 2014

■ Cullen R. “Bob” Brown, 83, Grand Junction, died March 20, 2014, at Larchwood Inns.

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Rapids use PKs to defeat Timbers 2-0

Vicente Sanchez and Deshorn Brown scored on penalty kicks two minutes apart in the second half to lead the Colorado Rapids to a 2-0 win over the Portland Timbers on Saturday.

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Biff America: The Stuff legends are made of

The last time I saw Dave the Goat alive was in 2004 at a trailhead in Yosemite. It was about 6 a.m. The morning fog would soon burn off, but in the meantime it muffled the conversations of the two or three groups getting ready to head out to backcountry ski.

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High Gear looks at Liberty Skis, guys from Avon with the bamboo sticks

Ski designer and co-founder Dan Chalfant inspects a stack of Liberty's bambo cores. Founded in 2003, the Avon based company has lightweight bamboo at the core of all of their skis.

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Official: No survivors expected in US plane crash

MONTROSE, Colorado (AP) Authorities believe there are no survivors after a small plane crashed into a reservoir in the U.S.Ouray County spokeswoman Marti Whitmore says five people were believed aboard the single-engine plane.Federal...

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Rapids blank Timbers

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - On a bitterly cold and snowy day in Colorado, two second-half penalties handed Pablo Mastroeni his first victory as Colorado Rapids head coach and continued the Portland Timbers' lackluster start to the 2014 season.

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Big Second Period Propels Utah Past Idaho

Idaho (33-25-7) actually out-shot Utah in the game, 31-26, but Bobkov stymied the Steelheads at every turn.

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Prospect of bigger classes not sitting well with USM faculty, students

They say USM’s drive for fiscal efficiency will hurt academic quality and create a ‘diploma mill.’

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Sweet 16 venue same, not expectations

SDSU's road to the Sweet 16 in Anaheim goes through Spokane once again.

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MLS Wrap: Dallas go clear in the West, Defoe scores again

FC Dallas went clear top of the MLS' Western Conference, with a 3-1 home win over Chivas USA.

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Recent rise in prenatal defects investigated in Garfield County

• Congenital anomalies (also referred as birth defects) affect an estimated one in 33 infants worldwide and result in approximately 3.2 million birth defect-related disabilities every year.

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Kenneth Evans founded the Breckenridge Music Institute, now the Breckenridge Music Festival, inspiring hundreds ...

Kenneth Evans has lived in Summit County since 1969. He spent his first decade trying to put together a classical music festival, which eventually came together July of 1981. Then called Beethoven, Bach and Breckenridge, it evolved to become the Breckenridge Music Festival.

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Fewer would have a criminal record if pot is legalized

The eventual legalization of marijuana may seem inevitable. But that doesn't mean advocates on both sides of the issue have stopped fighting for and against it.

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Bruins rally in 3rd period, win 12th in a row

The Boston Bruins rallied with three third-period goals, the go-ahead score by Shawn Thornton with 3:18 to play, to win their 12th in a row, 4-2 over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night. The Bruins are two shy of the franchise mark of 14 straight set in the 1929-30 season. Jarome Iginla scored his 27th and 28th goals of the season for Boston, the second into an empty net in the final seconds ...

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Gators push Pitt out of tournament

ORLANDO, Fla. - Pittsburgh reverted to its late-season form. Florida's stifling defense, frustrating press and valuable experience had a lot to do with i.

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Florence Huskies' Taylor Holand wins high jump

Taylor Holand during the Pueblo Centennial Invitational on Saturday at Dutch Clark Stadium in Pueblo. Holand won the event. ( Brandon Hopper / Daily Record )

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NEW CHEVY COLORADO = DRIVING FUN + GREATER FUEL EFFICIENCY

The 2015 Chevrolet Colorado uses engineering techniques and lightweight materials to create true pickup capability in a midsize package. read more

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Hurricanes score 3 times in 2nd to top Jets 3-2

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) -- Cam Ward grinned as he described how he felt like a kid making some key saves in the Carolina Hurricanes' 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night.

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Hotels offer natural hot springs

Instead of pushing traditional spa services, several hotels around the world are focusing on expanding natural hot springs on-site as a way for guests to unwind.

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NHL GMs face chopping block

As the NHL season winds down, some general managers are feeling the heat.

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NCAA tournament reveals conferences' true colors

San Diego State head coach Steve Fisher has his team in the Sweet 16 after a first-game loss in the tournament last season. (AP)

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Lobbyists pay little heed to wage hike proposal

The odds that Congress will pass an increase in the U.S. minimum wage before the November elections are so low that even the nation’s lobbyists are largely ignoring it.

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GMs face chopping block

As the NHL season winds down, some general managers are feeling the heat.

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Two big departures in Buffalo’s art world leave room for new blood

The tight-knit art community of Western New York got a double-dose of disappointing news last week, when longtime curators Sandra Q. Firmin of the University at Buffalo Art Gallery and Cori Wolff of Buffalo Arts Studio announced they’d be leaving for new jobs in other cities.

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UTEP men's basketball: Young Miners focus on getting better

A year ago, hope was a high flying co-pilot ... soaring through the clouds. In July, hope dipped. In December, hope all but disappeared.

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Hurricanes score 3 times in 2nd to top Jets 3-2

Cam Ward grinned as he described how he felt like a kid making some key saves in the Carolina Hurricanes' 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night. Ward stole a pair of goals from Winnipeg's Bryan Little in the first period, beginning with a pad save during a Jets' two-man advantage and then displaying his quickness with a highlight-reel stick stop. ''But Little, I think he got even ...

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Kovacevic: With Dixon, a fuller perspective is necessary

ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s Jamie Dixon’s fault. No, really, not being glib here. It’s on him. He’s the head coach of the Pitt team that ...

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Rapids Capitalize on Two Penalty Kicks to Defeat Timbers

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - A pair of penalty-kick goals during an event-filled final 20 minutes of play was the difference as the Colorado Rapids defeated the Portland Timbers, 2-0, under cold and snowy conditions on Saturday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

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