Last Tuesday the Broncos slimmed down their roster to 53-men with a number of starters who were on last season’s roster but with an added few new faces from both free-agency and this year’s draft.
Both first and second-string running backs are new to the team with J.K. Dobbins coming from the L.A. Chargers and R.J. Harvey being drafted from the University of Central Florida.
The Broncos will face the Tennessee Titans and their rookie quarterback Cameron Ward whoes first task as an NFL player is to face one of the NFL’s toughest defenses. While many expect Ward to be a commanding presence in the NFL over the next decade, the Broncos will likely keep pressure on the young rookie on Sunday, offering him a warm welcome to the league. Sunday’s game is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. at Empower Field at Mile High.
In other sports Mexico’s U-8 (mostly 8 year-olds) baseball team defeated the U.S. to win the Cal Ripken World Series last week. Mexico scored two runs in the first inning and really didn’t look back from there dominating the U.S. through 9 innings.
Mexican pitcher Milán ‘Búfalo,’ Zazueta struck out 10 batters in four innings holding the U.S. to just 2 runs the whole game. Mexico defeated the U.S. 10-2.
We’re less than three weeks away from the start of the Colorado Avalanche preseason and about a month away from the Denver Nuggets preseason kick-off. The Avs will kick off the preseason in Utah on September 21st at 2:30 while the Nuggets will kick-off their preseason at home against the Minnesota Timberwolves on October 4th at 7 p.m.
The Colorado Rockies are wrapping up a three-game series with the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco after losing game-one 8-2 on Monday (The Rockies are one loss away from 100 losses on the season at the time of this writing).
Colorado is back at home to host the San Diego Padres for a three-game series this weekend at Coors Field. The Rockies are currently 39.5 games behind the division leading L.A. Dodgers.
