{"id":1165,"date":"2023-08-11T04:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:04:46","slug":"sports-headlines-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Sports Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Broncos play their first 2023 pre-season game against the Cardinals in Arizona tonight.&nbsp; New Coach Sean Payton, who had great success building the Saints into a powerhouse with quarterback Drew Brees several years ago, is now expected to rebuild the career of Russell Wilson, who\u2019ll play for a while tonight along with other starters.&nbsp; Kickoff is expected around 8 mountain time this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coming season\u2019s NBA schedule is starting to leak out.&nbsp; \u201cThe Athletic\u201d reports the league champion Nuggets will host the Lakers, one of the clubs they eliminated in the Western Conference Finals on the way to their first title last spring, on opening night this fall, October 24<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Denver will unveil its championship banner that night, as well.&nbsp; The Athletic also reports the champs will host a Christmas Day game, against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rockies visited the Dodgers in LA last night.&nbsp; Starting pitcher and Denver native Ty Blach (block) made his 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;straight start and went 6 innings for Colorado, giving up only 1 earned run.&nbsp; The Rocks\u2019 Elhuris (el-her-EESS) Montero belted his 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;home run of the year to left field, but it wasn\u2019t enough\u2026&nbsp; Dodgers win 2 to 1.&nbsp; The series continues tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broncos play their first 2023 pre-season game against the Cardinals in Arizona tonight.&nbsp; New Coach Sean Payton, who had great success building the Saints into a powerhouse with quarterback Drew Brees several years ago, is now expected to rebuild the career of Russell Wilson, who\u2019ll play for a while tonight along with other starters.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}