Colorado State Stuns Washington State In New Mexico To Open Bowl Season In Epic Fashion (VIDEO)

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Colorado State fans celebrate their win after the NCAA New Mexico Bowl college football game against Washington State, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013, in Albuquerque, N.M.

For those who think there are too many bowl games, college football presents the 2013 New Mexico Bowl.

Colorado State (8-6) scored 11 points in the final minute of the fourth quarter to rally past Washington State (6-7) in Albuquerque on Saturday to open the 2013-2014 bowl season. The Rams kicked a 41-yard, game-winning field goal as time expired to seal their stunning 48-45 win. Those 11 points in the final sixty seconds of the game capped an 18-0 run that turned a 45-30 deficit with 9:35 remaining into a 48-45 triumph that brought the CSU fans in attendance rushing onto the field.

The late rally took the spotlight off Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday's trash-talking, record-breaking performance. The junior signal caller tossed six touchdown passes to set a New Mexico Bowl record. The first touchdown throw came just minutes into the first quarter and was followed by a verbal altercation with a coach along the Colorado State sideline. Rolling toward the Rams' sideline as he loosed a 25-yard touchdown pass to teammate River Cracraft, Halliday's momentum took him right into the face of a coach. The two jawed at each other, seeming to use some NSFW language, before another coach separated them, pushing Halliday back toward the field.

Halliday would throw four more touchdowns by the end of the second quarter to give his Cougars a 35-23 lead heading into the intermission. Halliday's sixth touchdown pass came in the fourth quarter and stretched Washington State's lead to 45-30.

The Rams then began charging. Soon after, the Cougars began fumbling.

Colorado State quarterback Garrett Grayson found Jordon Vaden for 12-yard touchdown pass to trim the deficit to 45-37 with 2:52 remaining. On the ensuing possession, Washington State committed the first of two late fumbles. WSU running back Jeremiah Laufasa lost the ball and the Rams recovered. Eight plays later, Kapri Bibbs rushed for a 1-yard touchdown to pull the Rams within two points. Using a bit of trickery, they converted a two-point conversion to tie up the score 45-45.

GIF: Colorado State Uses 'Statue Of Liberty'

(GIF via @SBNation)

That a "Statue Of Liberty" play was followed by something even more unexpected is a testament to the improbable nature of the New Mexico Bowl. With the game tied and just 27 seconds remaining on the clock, Colorado State kicked off to Washington State. Running back Teondray Caldwell fielded the kickoff but fumbled the ball at the WSU 24-yard line. Jake Schlager recovered the loose ball to set up the game-winning field goal. After Jared Roberts' kick split the uprights, those in green in the crowd went, appropriately, wild.

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Flujo masivo hielo abajo juncos río en Colorado (VIDEO)

Después de días de temperaturas de congelación finalmente dieron paso a un poco de sol en Colorado esta semana, ese calor producido un témpano de hielo grande desatará presionando abajo un muro de 4 metros de agua, bloques de hielo, los árboles y otros escombros.

Ver el vídeo dramático del témpano grande arriba, filmado en la ciudad suroeste de Placerville.

Las acometidas de agua y hielo vinieron corriendo por el río San Miguel el martes cuando una ola de frío fue seguida por las temperaturas más cálidas y sol que derritió rápidamente recién formado acumulaciones de hielo, informó el Daily Mail.

Según la prensa diaria de Montrose, el sheriff del Condado de San Miguel enviado 260 inversa-911 llamadas y también fue puerta por puerta a los residentes del área advirtiéndoles a buscar un terreno más alto.

Se registraron lesiones ni daños causados por el torrente de agua helada, según The Associated Press.

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Colorado Secession Attempt Will Strengthen State, Says Governor John Hickenlooper

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A failed secession attempt by 11 Colorado counties generated conversations that will make the state stronger, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Tuesday.

Voters in six of the 11 Colorado counties voted the largely symbolic secession proposal down last month, while five counties approved.

The secession movement "really led to debates and discussions that are going to make each of your counties stronger and, I think, ultimately make the state stronger," Hickenlooper told local officials at a Colorado Counties Inc. event, the Associated Press reports.

Washington, Phillips, Yuma, Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties voted in favor of secession, while Weld, Logan, Sedgewick, Elbert and Lincoln counties rejected the 51st state question. Voters in Moffat County, the sole northwestern county involved in secession threats, also rejected secession, halting the possibility of it becoming a new panhandle to Wyoming.

The secession plan was driven by a number of new laws recently passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature, including gun control, the curbing of perceived cruel treatment of livestock, expanded regulation of oil and gas production, recreational marijuana legalization, an increase in renewable energy standards in rural areas and civil unions.

"The heart of the 51st State Initiative is simple," the backers of the measure explain on their website. "We just want to be left alone to live our lives without heavy-handed restrictions from the state capitol. Will statehood be easy? No. However, pioneers are who have made this state great. Those early miners that came for the gold rush were pioneers. The early settlers that began farming the land and built the infrastructure to enable Colorado to be an agricultural powerhouse -- they were also pioneers."

Hickenlooper, who is running for a second term as governor of Colorado, has seen his popularity slide as he signed several controversial bills into law that the Democratic legislature passed this year including universal background checks for all gun sales and transfers and a ban on high capacity magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.

The state's new gun laws resulted in the first-ever recall election in Colorado history and ouster of Senate President John Morse (D-Colo. Springs) and Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) over their support of the gun control laws. A third Colorado Democrat, Sen. Evie Hudak (Westminster), resigned last week over threats of a recall election because of her vote for stricter gun laws.

It's not the first time Hickenlooper has addressed the secession plans and the possibility of needing to listen to the state's rural communities more closely.

"When I think of Colorado it means all of our diverse communities and people," Hickenlooper said to 9News of the secession movement, prior to the vote. "I can't imagine Colorado being Colorado without the eastern plains. If this talk of a 51st state is about politics designed to divide us, it is destructive. But if it is about sending a message, then I see our responsibility to lean in and do a better job of listening."

Although the majority of the sparsely-populated counties in Colorado's northeast and northwest corners rejected the 51st state plan, the very real cultural divide between Colorado's urban centers and rural plains still remains.

"There is getting to be such a great disconnect and unfortunately it's kind of drawn a line between urban people and those on the land," Weld County resident Chuck Sylvester said to Al Jazeera before the vote.

"They don't need our vote and they've become pretty arrogant in just ram-rodding whatever they want through," Chuck's wife Roni Sylvester added.

Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway, a vocal supporter of the secession movement, said he would respect the will of the county voters who rejected the plan, but that county lawmakers would "continue to look at the problems of the urban and rural divide in this state."

The prospects of secession actually occurring in any Colorado counties are slim to none. For the secession to be successful, voters in each county would have to approve of the idea. Then North Colorado statehood would have to be approved by the state legislature, the governor and the real clincher: both houses of the U.S. Congress.

The last state to successfully form a new state was West Virginia in 1863 while the nation was embroiled in the Civil War.

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Colorado temido boicot sobre nuevas leyes de armas es un fracaso Total

DENVER (AP) — un boicot por parte de los cazadores que se oponen a las nuevas leyes de Colorado, destinadas a reducir la violencia con armas ha podido materializar.

Temporadas de caza del estado primario gran juego han cerrado con ningún rastro del boicot defensores de los derechos arma habían advertido, el Denver Post informó el lunes (http://bit.ly/1c42Nyv).

"A través de las estaciones principales gran juego, estuvimos unos 5.000 licencias respecto al año pasado en este momento", dijo Randy Hampton, portavoz de Colorado parques y vida silvestre.

Números finales no estarán disponibles hasta el próximo año, pero las cifras iniciales son un signo positivo para $1,8 billones Colorado de caza y pesca industrial.

El significado se amplía dentro de CPW, el organismo encargado de administrar los recursos de fauna y flora del estado. Extrae una porción significativa de su presupuesto de operación de licencias de caza no residentes. La división el año pasado recogió $38 millones en licencias de alces y ciervos de no residentes, en comparación con $7,6 millones de cazadores en el mismo estado.

Los mayores generadores de ingresos son licencias de elk no residentes, ambos los $589 limitada cazadores deberán solicitar las licencias y licencias sin receta $586 que estén disponibles más adelante en el verano. En comparación, una licencia de caza de alce limitada para adultos residentes de Colorado cuesta sólo $49, y licencias residentes sin receta médica son $46.

"Una vez más, no tenemos las cifras definitivas, pero sabemos que nuestros dólares de ventas netas para arriba también. Muy sustancialmente,"dijo Hampton. "Basándonos en esto, tu instinto dice que las licencias no residentes fueron estables o arriba también. Sin duda había una disminución significativa porque un gran número se notaría en el resultado final."

Colorado atrajo la atención nacional y las amenazas de un boicot caza la primavera pasada después de que el gobernador John Hickenlooper firmó un trío de las leyes de armas restringe la capacidad del cargador a 15 asaltos y mandatos de antecedentes, pagados por el comprador, en la mayoría de las ventas de armas.

A pesar de las leyes pasando justo antes del plazo de solicitud de licencia de gran partido del estado, licencia limitada aplicaciones aumentaron por 17.000, o 4 por ciento, las cifras de 2012.

"Si quieres ir a la caza de alces, que van a venir aquí," dijo Eric Whirley, propietario de la acción de taxidermia en yeso, agregando que su negocio era el mejor ha sido desde su apertura hace nueve años. "... Usted no va a Michigan para ir a la caza de alces porque Colorado cambió una ley".

Stan Wyatt de Wyatt Sports Center en Meeker, dijo que no vio ninguna diferencia en las ventas de licencias de 2012, y mientras algunos hoteles vieron menos visitantes, el recientemente remodelado Elk Mountain Inn en Meeker tenía más.

"Personalmente yo no noté ningún impacto. Tengo a clientes muy leales, y Colorado sigue siendo el mejor lugar en el país para matar a un gran ciervo mula,"dijo Guía de caza Miles Fedinic de FMF al aire libre en Craig.

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