Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association

For almost twenty years, the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association has been teaching history by reenacting it. The non-profit puts together workshops and what it calls "performances" that represent the sport as it existed in the mid-1800s, when it was known as "base ball." Wearing nineteenth-century uniforms and using vintage gear, clubs (known to modern-day spectators as teams) abide by the old-school rules of the game -- or the match, rather.

On Saturday, May 19, the Parker Area Historical Society's club will go up against the CVBBA to play a full-fledged match, one that is more about historical accuracy than competition.

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." -- Alice Walker

There will be no avoiding the color purple today, Colorado Rockies Purple Monday, when you can march down a purple stripe on Blake Street and right on into Coors Field for the Rockies home opener.

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Spring has sprung early in Denver, bringing with it crocuses, daffodils and March Madness. And if all of that puts you in a mood to shoot a few hoops in the Mile High sunshine, you're in luck: The freshly painted Southwest Court at Skyline Park opened for business last Friday. Now you can hoop it up to your heart's delight from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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Save your time, there's no nudity.

Calender-wise, every year starts at the beginning of January. But when it comes to pop-culture, the year "kicks off" (hey-o!) with the advertising blitz (so many football puns!) that is the Super Bowl, when advertisers collectively spend brajillions of dollars to tell us how to think and feel during the ensuing months of lesser sports.

Once again we're interpreting the commands of those advertisers and predicting everything that will happen over the next year -- and even though all of our predictions for last year failed miserably, this time around we have utmost confidence we're going to get it right. Why? Because we used science.

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Smackdown!

Primos Hardcore & Wrestling has spent the better half of a decade making a name for itself as a premiere independent promotor and cultivator of extreme wrestling entertainment in Colorado. Tonight, Primos expands it's no-holds-barred throwdowns with REVoLUCHA, its own addition to the international Lucha Libre fight circuit.

In advance of this evening's inaugural sequin-masked matches, Westword spoke with Primos owner, founder and wrestler, Joe "Joey Terrofyn" McDougal about this new direction, and his own impending extensive Lucha training in Mexico.

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A first glimpse of Fitness Origin -- a new gym that opened in Colorado Springs this month -- had us wondering: What, exactly, goes on in this room full of sand with straps hanging from the walls? It sort of looks like one of those secret basement serial-killer lairs discovered under a hatch in the floor on Law & Order. But Fitness Origin co-owner and founder Jeremy Ueberroth explains that the straps are, in fact, resistance bands, and the sand creates a low-impact environment for workouts while increasing exercise intensity.

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It's layers of pop culture imagery piled on top of one another like sports announcers piling on Tim Tebow -- and you know you want it. To commemorate Tebow's season, the miraculous Denver Broncos win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, and what Denverites hope will be an even more miraculous win over the New England Patriots tomorrow, the Wynkoop Brewing Company has produced two posters of Tebow that borrow the imagery and words used by artist Shepard Fairey in his now-iconic posters of Barack Obama. You can buy these posters at the Wynkoop, while supplies last -- or you can win one of each by telling us why you HOPE or BELIEVE the Broncos will will on Saturday.

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These hot, wild girls are helping send Brad Scott and friends to the Super Bowl.

Virtually any time a guy has three hot, wild girls in his apartment, he's dreaming. And yet that's exactly how a Colorado State University student feels after finding out that he and his business partners are headed to the Super Bowl to compete for $1 million.

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Not his favorite part of the rodeo. What is yours?

Do you know why the bucking broncos and bulls buck? Well, it depends on: Who. You. Ask. One thing's for sure, though: The rodeo is as woven into the fabric of Western culture as just about anything.

With the National Western Stock Show back for another year in Denver, we're taking stock: What's your favorite part of the rodeo? Or, obviously, why do you think the rodeo is an anachronistic display or just plain cruel to animals? This week, this is your thread.

To get you in the correct frame of mind, here's a video of the Madison Square Garden invitational, the freshest video posted to the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) YouTube channel, which features sports cliches interjected among rodeo highlights by a cowboy-hat-wearing R. Lee Ermey.

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Bust out the helmets and elbow pads: It's time to throw down. Broomball is coming to the Southwest Ice Rink at Skyline Park this month. Whether you want to ice out the competition or just get swept away by Canadian culture, this could be the game for you.

Broomball is similar to ice hockey, although there are generally fewer fistfights and more intact teeth. Players trade skates for tennis shoes (or, if you're a big spender, special broomball shoes made in Canada), and the ball, which is about the size of a cantaloupe, gets smacked around by broomball sticks that have six-inch-wide, semi-triangular ends instead of blades.

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