Tag: phoenix
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Switchbacks look to snap two-game skid on home turf
A powerful Louisville City FC team will be at Weidner Field on Friday for a key game against the Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC at Weidner Field. Louisville comes to town as the top team in the USL Championship Central Division. Louisville (8-3-2, 26 points) has won three of its last four matches and leads the…
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Passenger screening volumes at Colorado Springs Airport expected to continue growing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Crowds moving through the security checkpoint at the Colorado Springs Airport are expected to continue growing for the rest of the summer, according to officials from the airport and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. Passenger screening numbers are now more than 25% higher than during…
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Passenger screening volumes at Colorado Springs Airport expected to continue growing
Crowds moving through the security checkpoint at the Colorado Springs Airport are expected to continue growing for the rest of the summer, according to officials from the airport and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. Passenger screening numbers are now more than 25% higher than during the same period in 2019 and are expected to continue…
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Southwest pushes passenger numbers at Colorado Springs Airport to 13-month high
The arrival of Southwest Airlines at the Colorado Springs Airport last month pushed passenger numbers to the highest level since before the COVID-19 pandemic slowed air travel, the airport announced Wednesday. The 57,758 passengers on outbound flights in March surged 67% from March 2020, when the pandemic cut passenger numbers by more than 25,000 from…
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Colorado Springs hotel occupancy increases for first time in 16 months
Colorado Springs hotels sold more rooms than a year earlier last month for the first time in 16 months, but only because the COVID-19 pandemic had already triggered many convention cancellations in March 2020. The 53.9% occupancy rate in March was the highest since October and up from 38.8% in March 2020, the first year-over-year…
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Denver Nuggets drop finale of five-game road trip to San Antonio Spurs behind late turnovers
The 255 minutes of basketball played by the Denver Nuggets in five games over eight days across a few different time zones proved to be eight minutes too many. After starting the road trip with consecutive overtime wins at Phoenix last week that added an extra 15 minutes to the total, the Nuggets were tied…
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Colorado Springs Airport passenger traffic falls to 37-year low in 2020
Passenger numbers on outgoing flights at the Colorado Springs Airport last year fell to a 37-year low, but a rebound is expected this year with the arrival in March of Southwest Airlines and expansion by other carriers. The 363,845 passengers leaving the airport in 2020 was down 56.7% from 2019 and the lowest annual total…
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Denver Nugget Nikola Jokic wins NBA Western Conference player of the week
Nikola Jokic led the Denver Nuggets to their first three-game win streak of the season last week and picked up an award Monday afternoon to show for his efforts. In a home win over Oklahoma City and back-to-back overtime victories at Phoenix, Denver’s 25-year-old star center averaged 29 points, 14.7 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 1.9…
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Michael Porter Jr. putting starting touches on all-around game in second season with Denver Nuggets
Michael Porter Jr. has said the right things about being a complete player for most of his time with the Denver Nuggets, and it looks like he’s increasingly starting to do the right thing. There has never been a question about the second-year forward’s shooting and scoring ability, and it quickly became evident the 6-foot-10…
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Denver Nuggets survive second straight dramatic finish in Phoenix, beat Suns in double OT
Saturday’s win at Phoenix was twice as nice as Friday’s for the Denver Nuggets. A day after beating the Suns in overtime, the Nuggets won Saturday’s rematch 120-112 in double overtime. “This is an impressive back-to-back win on back-to-back nights on the road,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “Very proud of our guys for pulling…