The Denver Nuggets are on a six game winning streak after defeating the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night at Ball Arena moving into fourth in the Western Conference a single game behind the third place L.A. Lakers.
This week the Nuggets are in Utah to face the Jazz a team they beat at the start of March. The Nuggets then return home to face the number two San Antonio Spurs who are 9 games ahead of the Nuggets.
This week the Lakers are at home to host the Wizards and the Cleveland Cavaliers before heading to Oklahoma to face the Thunder.
While the Nuggets will likely not catch the Spurs they have a really good chance of moving into the number three spot in the Western Conference, a possibility that looked grim at the end of February. Thankfully, Denver is at home four of the next six games.
In other sports the Colorado Avalanche have extended their lead over the Dallas Stars to six points with ten games left in the season. Colorado just lost to the Winnipeg Jets over the weekend 4-2. This week the Avs will face the Calgary Flames (results of game not available at the time of this writing) and the Vancouver Canucks at home before heading to Dallas to face the Stars this weekend.
Colorado leads the league in points with 106 with the Stars trailing with a 100. The Tampa Bay Lightning the Carolina Hurricanes and the Buffalo Sabres all follow with 98 in the Eastern Conference.
Denver’s first female soccer team, the Denver Summit FC drew the largest soccer crows in Denver, Colorado history with 63,004 in attendance shattering the NWSL attendance record by over 20,000 spectators.
Denver faced the Washington Spirit and both reached a stalemate in full time at zero apiece. The Summit FC will face the Seattle Reign FC on Saturday April 4 at 6:45 p.m. at Lumen Field in Seattle.
March Madness is in full swing and just about everyone’s brackets are a disaster especially when number 7 University of Connecticut came back from nearly a 20 point deficit in the first half to beat number 1 Duke in the final seconds of the game after Duke inbounded the ball which was passed to Cayden Boozer who, instead of holding onto the ball decided to pass it, where it was deflected into the hands of Braylon Mullin who shot from way beyond the arch nailing a decisive three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left taking a 73-72 lead and the win.
This Saturday kicks off the final four with number 3 Illinois facing number 2 UConn at 4:09 p.m. then number 1 Michigan will take on number 1 Arizona at 6:49 p.m. to see who heads to the National Championship game.
