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Athletics in the Pikes Peak region take on many forms, from outdoor sports like cycling and running, to Olympic level competition, to minor league baseball. This month, Western Skies takes a look at sports in the region.
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Profile: Manitou Springs’ Justin Armour
Roundtable: Mike Moran and Tim Bergsten
Yoga: The Intersection of Sport and Spiritual Practice
Behind the Scenes at the United States Anti-Doping Agency
Interview: The State of Cycling in the Pikes Peak Region
Professional Baseball in Colorado Springs, ca. 1902
Western Skies is a collaboration between KRCC News and The Big Something.
Of the 100,000 american high school seniors that play football each year, only 215 will make it to the national football league. One of those was was Manitou Springs native, Justin Armour. After stints with the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, and the Denver Broncos, Armour has returned to his hometown of Manitou Springs to raise his young family. He also returns to Manitou Springs High School as the head football coach. Craig Richardson has this profile.
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Clearly mainstream professional sports aren’t really a part of the athletic identity of the Pikes Peak region. This month’s roundtable features a conversation with local sports promoter and consultant Mike Moran, and Tim Bergsten of PikesPeakSports.us, which is a social network for runners, bicyclists, and others in the area.
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The Pikes Peak Region has seen an explosion of yoga practices in recent years, much like the rest of the nation. They range from traditional practices based in its spiritual roots to power, or core yoga, which focuses more on physical strength. KRCC’s Michelle Mercer practices yoga and examines here the line between yoga for sport, and yoga for spiritual practice.
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Colorado College Dance Professor Peggy Berg adjusts a student’s alignment during an Iyengar yoga class at Colorado College (credit: Bill Starr) and Kat Tudor leads students in a session of Hot Tub yoga (credit: Michelle Mercer).
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Hardly a week goes by in the national media these days without news about athletes and performance enhancing drugs. Floyd Landis’ allegations that Lance Armstrong has been doping for years made headlines for months before the Tour de France this summer. Most recently, Major League Baseball announced it will begin testing its Minor League athletes for human growth hormone, or H.G.H. To find out more about efforts to curb the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports, KRCC’s Noel Black recently visited the United States Anti-Doping Agency in Colorado Springs.
Despite the fact that the Pikes Peak Region is home to the Olympic Training Center, an excellent network of trails and bike paths, and hundreds of miles of easily accessible mountain biking, Colorado Springs is just beginning to be known outside the area as cycling destination. KRCC’s Noel Black spoke with local Olympian and World Mountain Biking Champion Allison Dunlap and Colorado Springs Senior Transportation Planner Kristin Bennett about one of the area’s best kept secrets. (Right/option-click to download or click the play button to stream.)
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-Find out more about regional bike lanes and trails.
-Visit the Allison Dunlap Adventure Camps home page.
-Find out about Peak Region Cyclist’s “Assault on the Peak” ride up Pikes Peak on August 29.
-Learn more about the Sand Creek Series mountain bike races.
Few people remember that Colorado Springs once had a professional baseball team called The Millionaires. Jeff Bieri reads this excerpt from Marshall Sprague’s history of the region, Newport in the Rockies.
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(Boulevard Park ca. 1902, photographer unknown. Courtesy of Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District. Image Number: 257-6465.)
One halftone image in full-page spread of six smaller images on page titled “In the Suburbs of the Sunshine City.” Image shows crowd standing outside large wooden structure with signs reading “Boulevard Park” and “Colorado Springs Baseball Club. Members of the Western League.” Caption at bottom of page reads “Boulevard Park, the home of the “Millionaires”.”