{"id":1719,"date":"2023-10-11T04:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2023-10-11T04:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T11:07:04","slug":"sports-headlines-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Sports Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s extra hype for CU football under Coach Deion \u201cPrime Time\u201d Sanders is generating tons of attention nationwide.&nbsp; The team reached 1 million Instagram followers on Tuesday.&nbsp; After eking out a victory over Arizona State last weekend, the next challenge for the Buffs is to upset Stanford, Friday night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Broncos play their football on Thursday this week, hoping to generate some excitement in the state by snapping a 15-game losing streak to the Kansas City Chiefs.&nbsp; Most observers don\u2019t think that\u2019s very likely, however.&nbsp; Players including defensive back Justin Simmons are calling the game a \u201cmust-win\u201d for Denver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sad note from the NBA\u2026&nbsp; Nuggets Coach Michael Malone\u2019s father, Brendan Malone, passed away at age 81 this week.&nbsp; Brendan Malone had been a long-time assistant in the league, and was on the Pistons staff under Chuck Daly when Detroit won back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 90.&nbsp; He was also the first head coach when the Toronto Raptors were an expansion team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night, with coaching duties taken over by assistants, the Nuggets won their first pre-season game of the year, beating the Suns in Phoenix, 115 to 107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s extra hype for CU football under Coach Deion \u201cPrime Time\u201d Sanders is generating tons of attention nationwide.&nbsp; The team reached 1 million Instagram followers on Tuesday.&nbsp; After eking out a victory over Arizona State last weekend, the next challenge for the Buffs is to upset Stanford, Friday night.&nbsp; The Broncos play their football [&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-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}