Sports columnist Woody Paige of The Denver Post will receive the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s 2011 Public Education Award tonight at the Lincoln Center in New York during the organization’s 23rd annual Lifesavers Dinner.
Paige was recognized by the AFSP for raising national awareness about suicide prevention in his September 2010 column about the suicide of Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley, and how Paige dealt with his own depression and planned intention to commit suicide years ago. Paige and the AFSP received thousands of responses to the column.
Rapids lose Folan too.
A day after the Rapids learned striker Omar Cummings will miss two to four weeks because of an injury, they found out his replacement, Caleb Folan, also will be lost to an injury.
Folan had an MRI on Monday, and Tuesday the results showed he has a mild strain of the right groin. Folan will miss one to two weeks.
Conor Casey, out of the lineup the past six games because of a strained hamstring, has been upgraded to probable for Saturday’s game against D.C. United at RFK Stadium in Washington. The Rapids’ Quincy Amarikwa (ankle) and Sanna Nyassi (back) also are listed as probable to play Saturday.
Bradley calls it a career.
Ryan Bradley, this year’s U.S. figure skating champion from Colorado Springs, announced his retirement Tuesday.
Bradley, 27, won his first U.S. title in 11 trips to the senior nationals in January in Greensboro, N.C. It came shortly after foot surgery and near retirement last summer.
“This has been a long road and a great ride,” Bradley said in a statement. “Becoming U.S. champion was a dream come true and I’m now at a point in my life where I can look back on my career and feel completely content.”
Bradley, who moved to Colorado Springs from St. Joseph, Mo., in 1999, competed in three world championships, culminating in his 13th-place finish last month.
Bradley plans to appear in skating shows and teaching seminars across the country.
“I am looking forward to staying involved in the sport of figure skating,” he said. “I want to use my knowledge.”
John Henderson, The Denver Post
Adams State sweeps RMAC titles.
Indira Spence (100 and 200 meters), Cassie Mitchell (800 and 1,500) and Kaymarie Jones (100 and 400 hurdles) each won two events, leading the Adams State women’s track and field team to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference outdoor championship in Golden, their eighth straight conference crown.
James Douglas (100 and long jump) won two events for the RMAC champion Adams State men.
Lauren Kleppin (5,000 and 10,000) of the Western State women’s team also won two events.
Adams State won the men’s team title with 228 points. Western State (190) was second. Adams State won the women’s team title with 199 points.
Campigli leaving Cowgirls.
Wyoming women’s basketball coach Joe Legerski said 5-foot-10 guard Bec Campigli won’t play for the Cowgirls next season.
Campigli is leaving Wyoming to pursue a pro- fessional career in Australia, her home country.
Friday fundraiser at Invesco Field.
The head coaches of Colorado’s four Division I college football teams will join former coaches Fisher DeBerry of Air Force and Sonny Lubick of CSU as featured speakers Friday night at the annual Colorado Coaches for Charity fundraiser in the East Club Room at Invesco Field at Mile High.
Tickets for the Fisher DeBerry Foundation-sponsored event, which include the 6:30 p.m. dinner, are $150. For more information, call 877-352-6224 or go to .
Irv Moss, The Denver Post
