VONN AMONG SIX GOING INTO COLORADO SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Lindsey Vonn will be one of six new members inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame next April following a recent vote of the selection committee.
Vonn will be joined by Bob Gebhard, Alonzo Babers, George Gwozdecky, Terry Miller and Erin Popovich at the 56th annual banquet April 23 in Denver, the Hall of Fame announced Tuesday.
Vonn, a four-time World Cup ski champion and Olympic medalist, is the winningest women’s skier of all time. She will be joined by former Colorado Rockies general manager Gebhard, the first GM of the Rockies.
Babers is a two-time gold medalist who won his two medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the 400 meters and 4-by-400 relay, and George coached the DU Pioneers hockey team for 19 seasons and won back-to-back NCAA titles in 2004-05.
Miller is a former Heisman Trophy runner-up who was a three sport athlete at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs and drafted fifth overall by the Buffalo Bills in 1978.
Popovich, a soon-to-be U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Famer, has won 14 gold medals and 19 overall medals in swimming events at three combined Paralympic games.
Canada beats U.S. 2-0, ends 34year, 17-game winless streak.
The U.S. men’s soccer team lost to Canada for the first time in 34 years, allowing second-half goals to Alphonso Davis and Lucas Cavallini in a 2-0 defeat Tuesday night in the CONCACAF Nations League.
A little over two years after the Americans failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup by losing at Trinidad and Tobago, they saw their 17-match unbeaten streak against their northern neighbor come to an end.
Davies turned in a cross from Scott Arfield. Goalkeeper Zack Steffen put a palm up to block Davies’ shot but the ball still dropped over the line as Canada’s players rushed to join Davies for a raucous celebration.
Cup champion Blues visit Trump at White House as full team.
President Donald Trump honored the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues on Tuesday.
For the Blues, it was more of a last chance to celebrate the first title in franchise history than a political statement. Like previous NHL champions, they decided to keep with the long-held tradition of visiting the president at the White House amid teams from the NBA and other leagues either declining or not receiving an invitation or being disinvited by Trump.
St. Louis has a heavy concentration of Canadians and just one American still on the roster from the group that beat the Boston Bruins in the Cup Final.
Woods to write memoir on ups and downs of his career.
Tiger Woods is writing what he describes as his definitive story in a memoir titled “Back.” HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday it has acquired rights to the first memoir written by Woods. Still be determined is when it will be published.
The memoir will cover Woods from his youth as a golf prodigy to his rise as the youngest Masters champion and the only player to hold all four major championships at the same time. It will delve into his slide from injuries and his high-profile personal issues that led to divorce.
NFL: Preseason game concussion rate increased by 44%.
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The NFL says the number of concussions in exhibition games this year rose to 49 from 34 in 2018, an increase of 44% and a setback in efforts to reduce brain trauma, according to Dr. Allen Sills, the league’s chief medical officer, at the owners’ meetings Tuesday. Concussions in preseason practices fell to 30 from 45 in 2018, perhaps a reflection of the NFL’s decision this year to eliminate drills that involve especially violent one-on-one contact.