BOULDER — McKinley Wright IV’s NBA hopes just improved. Wright, a former CU point guard, is one of 69 prospects who will take part in the 2021 NBA Draft Combine, the league announced Tuesday. Wright previously declared for the draft in 2020, but withdrew his name over the summer and returned to Colorado for his senior season. The combine will be…...

Change is coming. Seven years after the inaugural College Football Playoff, a subcommittee within the playoff’s managerial committee has decided to recommend an expansion. The expansion would include eight more teams than the current four-team version. The full 11-member committee will decide on the proposal this week. Here’s what you need to know: The subcommittee has been working for two…...

BOULDER — The decision is in. Former-Colorado quarterback Sam Noyer announced on Twitter that he is committed to Oregon State on Friday. Noyer entered the transfer portal earlier in the week. He is a native of Beaverton, Oregon and graduated from Beaverton High School. https://twitter.com/sam_noyer/status/1403419271183552515?s=21 The Beavers will travel to Boulder for a game against the Buffs on Nov. 6.…...

BOULDER — The quarterback competition is down to two. Colorado’s starting quarterback from a season ago, Sam Noyer, intends to enter the transfer portal, according to CU. Noyer, who has one year of eligibility remaining, would have competed for the starting job during fall camp. This isn’t Noyer’s first time in the transfer portal. Before the 2019 season, Noyer fell…

BOULDER — An old Big 12 rival is coming back to town. Well, sort of. Colorado will host Texas A&M just down I-25 from Boulder at Empower Field in Denver on Sept. 11. The two teams last faced off in 2009, when Colorado pulled out a 35-34 win behind a 118-yard rushing game from Rodney Stewart to improve the series…...

BOULDER — Questions were abound heading into the first game of 2020. Colorado was replacing three-year starter Steven Montez with a former-safety it had pulled back to Boulder after a brief stint in the transfer portal. The transition was made more difficult by the fact that Alex Fontenot, the second-leading returning rusher in the Pac-12, had torn his ACL early…...

Henry Chisholm reports back with his biggest takeaways after re-watching the CU-UCLA game for the first time in months.

BOULDER — Eight former CU athletes and one former coach will be inducted into the University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame this summer, the athletic department announced Monday. The 2021 class is the 16th class and it will bring the total number of hall of famers to 131. The class will be inducted during the homecoming weekend of Nov. 4-6,…...

BOULDER — Karl Dorrell has a new focus in his second camp as CU’s head coach. “I’m learning every day, a little bit more about a lot of guys,” Dorrell said early in spring camp. “The other part, too, is that I’m looking to learn.” That second part is the new part. “My approach to this 2021 season is a…...

BOULDER — Chris Wilson made an impact in his first year back at CU as the Buffs’ defensive line coach. He wanted to change up the front-seven philosophy to a scheme that would allow defenders to focus on penetrating into the backfield. The switch worked, as Colorado’s defense produced as much pressure as any in the Pac-12 in 2020. After…...

Henry Chisholm breaks down what he’d focus on if he was the new commissioner of the Pac-12.

BOULDER — Colorado is still short on offensive linemen, but it added a key piece this weekend. Max Wray, the brother of former-Buff Jake Wray, announced on Sunday that he was transferring from Ohio State to Colorado. He was a four-star prospect out of high school in 2018. At 6-foot-7 and 308 pounds, Wray is a prototypical tackle. The bulk…...

Henry Chisholm shares his thoughts on the Pac-12’s decision to hire George Kliavkoff as the new commissioner, after hearing from Kliavkoff.

BOULDER — The Pac-12 has found its next commissioner. The conference announced Thursday that George Kliavkoff will take over the job starting July 1. Kliavkoff currently serves as the President of Sports and Entertainment for MGM Resorts International. What does that mean? Basically he oversees everything related to the entertainment at MGM resorts and properties, like the MGM Grand, the…

BOULDER — McKinley Wright IV, Dallas Walton, D’Shawn Schwartz, Maddox Daniels and Jeriah Horne are gone. Wright, who started at point guard for four seasons, is the biggest name among the group, but Schwartz and Horne were also among the top-five on the team in total minutes played last season. Daniels finished sixth and Walton came in seventh. Luckily for…...

BOULDER — Colorado added an exciting piece to its secondary this week. Atanza Vongor, a former TCU Horned Frog, announced on Twitter that he would be joining the Colorado Buffaloes on Friday. The safety will be eligible to play in 2021 thanks to the NCAA’s decision last month to grant an eligibility waiver to all first-time transfers. He has three…...

BOULDER — Alex Fontenot did everything right. He was a three-star running back out of Texas in 2017, who redshirted his freshman year behind future NFL Pro Bowler Phillip Lindsay. When Travon McMillan took over the job the next season, Fontenot saw a handful of touches, and turned one of them into a touchdown. He became the bell-cow back when McMillan…...

BOULDER — Spring camp is officially in the books. Colorado held 15 practices over the past five weeks, which concluded with the annual Spring Showcase at Folsom Field, Friday morning. Boulder County allowed 1,000 fans to spectate inside the 50,000 seat stadium. Here’s what we saw. The quarterbacks were solid It’s tough to come up with the right word to…...

BOULDER — The end of spring is upon us. Over the past five weeks, the Colorado Buffaloes have held 14 practices leading up to Saturday morning’s spring game. The goal was to develop the depth at the back end of the roster while teaching some tweaks of the offensive and defensive schemes to the team’s veterans. By all accounts, CU…...