COLORADO’S PUGH SUFFERS KNEE INJURY
Mallory Pugh, the rising U.S. women’s national team star in her second season with the Washington Spirit, will probably miss several weeks with a right knee injury suffered in a National Women’s Soccer League match Sunday in Houston.
The Spirit and U.S. Soccer Federation announced Thursday that their respective medical staffs are evaluating the 20-year-old attacker, who will undergo additional testing “to determine the extent of the injury.”
Based on initial reviews, Pugh is not likely to need surgery. However, an official diagnosis and prognosis has not yet been determined.
Pugh, who starred at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, will not play Saturday against the Chicago Red Stars at Maryland SoccerPlex and seems almost certain to miss the June 8 trip to Sky Blue FC. The injury has also rendered her unavailable for national team friendlies against China on June 7 in Sandy, Utah, and June 12 in Cleveland.
Pugh has played in every match this season for the Spirit (2-6-2), starting nine times and recording two goals and one assist. Her five goals in six U.S. matches this year tie her with Alex Morgan for the national team lead.
Elway misses the cut.
Perhaps the distractions of the Broncos’ ownership situation had John Elway distracted, or maybe his drive simply struggled to find the fairway.
Whatever the reason, the Broncos’ general manager failed to make the cut at the CoBank Colorado Senior Open on Thursday.
Elway, who entered Thursday’s second round 1-over-par, was 3-over for the day at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club, plagued by a double-bogey on the fifth hole and a triple-bogey on the eighth. Both holes are par-3s. His two-round score of 148 — 4-over — missed the cut by a stroke.
Skip Kendall, a PGA Tour alumnus from Florida, leads the field with a two-round score of 9-under.
Thirteen players are within five strokes of Kendall for the $50,000 purse.
Broomfield’s Jon Lindstrom leads the amateur category at 4-under, four strokes ahead of Longmont’s Guy Mertz.
Delaware gets in early on sports betting.
DEL.» Delaware will DOVER, begin full-scale sports betting next week, wasting no time after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for states to implement wagering schemes.
Full-scale sports betting will begin at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Delaware’s three casinos, officials said Thursday. The offerings will include single-game and championship wagering on professional baseball, football, hockey, basketball, soccer, golf and auto racing.
That means Delawareans will be able to make legal wagers on the NBA finals, which were to begin Thursday night and could run through June 17 if the championship series goes to a seventh game.
“Obviously the key is going to be the football season because the bulk of betting in America is on football,” state Finance Secretary Rick Geisenberger said Thursday. “We’ll learn a little bit in June and July, but we’ll learn a lot more in September.”
Delaware was able to get a quick start because of prewritten sports betting legislation that was passed in 2009 and a pre-existing wagering system that offers multigame parlay bets on National Football League games.
College kick times announced.
Fans of the Colorado Buffaloes and Colorado State Rams can now better plan their fall now that more game times and television schedules were announced Thursday.
Colorado State’s Sept. 15 game at Florida will kick off at 2 p.m. Mountain and be televised on the SEC Network. CU’s home opener — Sept. 15 against New Hampshire — is set for 3 p.m. on the Pac-12 Network.