{"id":1332,"date":"2023-08-31T05:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2023-08-31T05:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:54:32","slug":"sports-headlines-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Sports Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Broncos traded with the Saints this week to acquire placekicker Wil Lutz, which will reunite him with his former coach, Sean Payton.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t play in the NFL at all in 2021.&nbsp; Lutz says he\u2019s worked on his mental game, and feels he\u2019s now ready to return to the league.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UNC Bears of Greeley open their college football season tonight, after not having had a winning season since 2016.&nbsp; New Coach Ed Lamb says his Bears have what it takes to win this year.&nbsp; Lamb, who used to be a member of a rock band, says he\u2019s never posted anything on social media.&nbsp; He arrived in Greeley from Brigham Young, where he was the assistant head coach.&nbsp; He\u2019d been the head man at Southern Utah, winning 2 league championships there.&nbsp; Lamb says where the Buffs signed only 1 player from Colorado to a scholarship last year and the Rams got 2, he has 14 Bears on scholarship from inside the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rockies\u2019 Kyle Freeland had a rough pitching night Wednesday and&nbsp;got pulled after giving up 6 runs.&nbsp; They started to come back a little but it wasn\u2019t enough, and the Braves swept their series in Denver with a 7-3 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broncos traded with the Saints this week to acquire placekicker Wil Lutz, which will reunite him with his former coach, Sean Payton.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t play in the NFL at all in 2021.&nbsp; Lutz says he\u2019s worked on his mental game, and feels he\u2019s now ready to return to the league.&nbsp; The UNC Bears of [&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-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}