Still Keeping Score

 I last discussed the super conference scenarios for the Colorado Buffaloes on this particular blog 11-years ago. At that point, the Pac-12 was looking to expand after Texas A&M bolted from the Big-12 to the SEC. Several Big-12 teams looked to move over to the recently expanded 'conference of champions' to join Colorado and Utah in that once, happy, healthy, collegiate sports alliance. Looking back, the Pac-12 should have expanded then and a year or so ago when Texas and Oklahoma announced they were finally following Texas A&M to the SEC. Hindsight, as we often say here, is 20/20 and now that's what college football may look like with a pair of 20-team super conferences led by the Big-Ten and SEC. While not officially official, it sounds like the two richest programs in the Pac-12 are bolting for the Big-10, as early as 2024. For the new look Pac-10, and Washington looking to see if they can find a way to follow USC and UCLA, the rest of the west may be on the outsi

Watching the Colorado Avalanche hoist the toughest trophy to conquer in all of sports for their third such victory in franchise history, it offered chance for this one time sports editor and radio guy to reflect on the hard earned respect the NHL has won from me over the years. For clarification, I've always loved hockey. From the moment I pretended to have ice skates on a frozen pond, sliding around and hitting a tennis ball with a neighbor's hockey stick, it was frozen joy any winter I got to 'play' with anyone who was brave enough to get out on the ice with other kids armed with sticks. I was only 14 when I saw the tape delayed epic Miracle on Ice when the USA vanquished the Red Army on skates for Olympic glory in February of 1980. I was grateful to witness one of those sports David and Goliath moment that stick with you forever. Those happy moments aside, my relationship with the NHL was, to put it in modern social media vernacular, complicated. Living in Denver at