It was great to visit Springfield, Massachusetts and see the Pioneers emerge victorious over Cornell, with DU’s ticket to the 2024 Frozen Four now duly punched.
Since you’ve already read plenty about the hockey games by now, here is my four-minute summary of some elements of the NCAA Springfield Regional fan experience, beyond the hockey performance: Continue reading Puck Swami: Fan Experience Musings at the Springfield Regional
College soccer season is still nearly seven months away but the Summit League and University of Denver have several key decisions that will need to be considered and made by this summer.
DU men’s soccer, a marquee sport for the University of Denver, continues to look vulnerable with the loss of former Summit League member school Western Illinois to the Ohio Valley Conference. Jeff Colpack of The Mitchell Republic cited the outlook as ‘bleak’ to replace the Leathernecks with a sixth team for the Summit League membership and an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament. Ironically, Denver men’s soccer may be the spark to drive DU to seriously examine other conference options. All this while the NCAA is facing extinction as impatient power-conference members are at the precipice of a break-away as the gulf between the haves and have-nots looks irreconcilable. Continue reading Update: DU Men’s Soccer Impacts Conference Realignment Options
UPDATE: The STEM Horizons project has a favorable ‘preliminary approval’ but will still require final Board of Trustees approval to proceed.
The University of Denver continues its efforts to elevate STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) with a project DU has labeled STEM Horizons, a capital project to update and modernize the campus between Iliff Avenue and Harvard Gulch bisected by Wesley Avenue. This investment supports the recent prestigious R-1 research designation given to the University. Continue reading DU Moving forward with $100 Million Dollar Campus STEM Expansion
According to published 2023 police reports, crime dropped significantly in the consolidated University and University Park neighborhoods. The trend shows double-digit drops in most types of crime including key areas like property crimes, robberies and car thefts. Continue reading Crime on the Decline in the University of Denver Neighborhood
2023 was a good year for DU Athletics and we enjoyed covering every minute of it – and we hope you did, too. Here are the links to some of our most-read articles of the year. If you missed them, we have included the links. Continue reading A Look at Six of Our Most-Read Articles of 2023
“I’m truly humbled by this honor,” said Damien Goddard, CEO of The Goddard Family of Companies. “This is surely a surprise to my former professors and classmates but sends a clear message to all – it is never too late!” Goddard told a packed winter recess crowd, gathered to celebrate what he proudly calls his ‘crowning achievement’. Continue reading Damien Goddard Receives Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Education
Happy Thanksgiving and Go Pioneers!
TEMPE, Ariz. — One of the greatest joys of being an engaged college hockey fan is seeing your team play in road games around the country. Each new away game allows you to see how college hockey game day experiences are staged (and supported) around the country, and they also provide benchmarks to improve our own game night experience in Denver. Continue reading Puck Swami’s Visit to ASU’s New Mullett Arena
In the spirit of Capt. Andrew Luck, our own “Armchair General” Puck Swami has written a flowery “Civil War”-style letter to his wife about last weekend’s DU hockey sweep of rival Colorado College. We invite you to click and play “Ashokan Farewell’ as background music and read the letter aloud in the best Ken Burns-narrator voice you can muster. You can almost hear the strains of the Crimson-and-Gold fiddles playing in Denver’s Camp…
Wednesday, the Eighth Day of November, in the year of our Lord, 2023.
My Dearest Wife:
I am grateful to the Lord above for providing me this quill and paper with which to report to you, my beloved bride of long forbearance, that it has been four days since the smoke of battle has lifted from the November weekend scrap for the Gold Pan trophy. As you will read, the news is gratifying… Continue reading Puck Swami’s Civil War Letter on Winning the Gold Pan
