Rapids star striker Omar Cummings returned to practice Tuesday in Commerce City, his first action since severely spraining his right ankle in a game May 4.
“It’s good to finally be on the field again,” Cummings said. “But I’m still taking it slow, just seeing where I’m at.”
Colorado travels to Portland for an 8:30 p.m. game against the Timbers on Saturday. Cummings remains questionable. Rapids coach Gary Smith said he is confident that Cummings would be on the team’s traveling roster. In the season opener, Cummings scored an unassisted goal in the Rapids’ 3-1 rout of Portland.
“I’m not where I want to be,” Cummings said. “Some good signs, but still some nagging turns and shooting. I’m definitely not ready yet.”
Cummings had an MRI on May 9 that showed a partial torn ligament in his right ankle. He’s missed six games, all ties, as the Rapids scored just five goals over the stretch.
“He looks confident,” Smith said. “He doesn’t look like he’s missed a beat physically. He’s very fortunate he’s such a good athlete. Unlike most of us, he doesn’t put any weight on and he looks after himself very well.”
Dominguez returns as AFA assistant.
Veteran assistant coach Silvey Dominguez has been added to the men’s basketball coaching staff at the Air Force Academy. Dominguez, 58, is joining Jeff Reynolds’ staff.
It will be his second stint at Air Force. He previously was an assistant coach under Reggie Minton from 1988-91.
Dominguez also has been an assistant coach at CSU, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah.
Dominguez replaces Rob Pryor, who left the Air Force to become head coach at Virginia’s Shenandoah University. Irv Moss, The Denver Post
CU hires volleyball assistant.
The University of Colorado volleyball team hired Leonid Yelin as an assistant coach, head coach Liz Kritza said.
Yelin arrives after spending 15 years as head coach at Louisville, where he compiled the team’s winningest record in its history, 366-112.
Mines vs. CSU-Pueblo to be televised.
CBS College Sports will televise the Colorado Mines/Colorado State-Pueblo football game from the ThunderBowl in Pueblo at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6.
The game will also simulcast live at .
