Sports

The long wait is over. Durango High School is going to the state championship game. For the first time since 1988, the Demons will get to play for a title after they defeated Holy Family 34-14 on...

Smiles, not tears. That’s the way the Durango High School football team wanted to leave its home field for the final time in 2020. The Demons left the field with those smiles and their first state...

People flocked to Purgatory Resort for its opening day Saturday ready to hit the slopes after a longer-than-average off-season. The resort had to cut its 2019-20 season short because of the...

For the first time in three decades, the Dove Creek High School football team is headed to the state semifinals, thanks to its 30-12 home victory over Rangely in the opening round of the eight-man...

A year after the Fort Lewis College women’s basketball team finished one spot out of the eight-team Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament, the conference’s coaches expect the Skyhawks to be...

Led by a preseason All-American, coaches around the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference expect the Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team to take a big leap during the 2020-21 schedule after a...

As youngsters growing up in Dove Creek, Hayden Gray, Austin Beanland, Gage Bailey, Zed Hall and Gauge Thompson stood near the sidelines of their team’s home field while dreaming of one day bringing...

From the time that he began hitting baseballs off a tee and fielding ground balls from the hand of his father, Montezuma-Cortez High School senior Korie Likes dreamed of one day playing baseball at...

Unlike many top barrel racers who grew up surrounded by horses and began traveling to rodeos long before they could walk, Montezuma-Cortez High School senior Chevelle Reed did not ride consistently...

Throughout the week leading up to his team’s critical road matchup against Mancos on Nov. 6, Dove Creek football coach Shane Baughman preached the importance of form tackling, discipline and...

The Journal Chevelle Reed of Cortez has qualified for the Junior World Finals at the Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, from Dec. 7-12. Seventeen-year-old Reed is one of 160 qualifiers from...