The University of Denver hockey team is ranked No. 4 in the and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine NCAA Division I preseason hockey polls.
Notre Dame earned the top spot in the poll with 740 points, followed by Miami (722), North Dakota (720), Denver (670), Boston College (659), Michigan (613), Colorado College (594), Minnesota- Duluth (586), Yale (571) and Boston University (542).
In the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll, Miami of Ohio led the way with 453 points, followed by Notre Dame (427), North Dakota (373), Denver (366), Boston College (364), Boston University (343), Colorado College (316), Yale (277), Michigan (262) and Minnesota-Duluth (232).
CSU beats CU in men’s golf.
Colorado State kept its streak alive against Colorado in the third annual Colorado Cup, a Ryder Cup-style event. The Rams won 6-4 at the Ballyneal Golf & Hunt Club in Holyoke.
Ultimate fight set 2011 audience record for U.S.
Jon Jones’ submission victory over Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in the headline bout Saturday at UFC 135 in Denver helped draw the largest U.S. attendance of an Ultimate Fighting Championship event this year, UFC president Dana White said.
Attendance at the Pepsi Center was 16,344, organizers said, making UFC 135 the third most-attended UFC fight in the world this year, behind UFC 129 on April 30 in Toronto (55,724 for Georges St.-Pierre vs. Jake Shields) and UFC 127 on Feb. 27 in Sydney (18,186 for B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch).
The gate receipts for the Denver fight topped $2 million, White said, well ahead of the UFC’s previous pay-per-view event in the U.S., UFC 133 in Philadelphia, which made $1.5 million.
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