Ben Verbrugge is a freelance sportswriter with a journalism degree from CSU Dominguez Hills. He is a member of the Los Angeles media and spends most of his time covering the NBA, NFL, and MLB. When not writing, he is either playing or watching sports.
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On Saturday, Colorado State takes on Washington in a potentially exciting college football matchup.
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Quarterback Desmond Williams Jr. #2 of the Washington Huskies goes up the field during the first half on a keeper against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium on October 12, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa. Quarterback Desmond Williams Jr. #2 of the Washington Huskies goes up the field during the first half on a keeper against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium on October 12, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa. Matthew Holst/Getty Images
How to Watch Colorado State at Washington
Date: Saturday, August 30, 2025
Time: 11:00 p.m. ET
Channel: Big Ten Network
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Washington is coming off a tough season, one that saw it go 6-7 and 4-5 in Big Ten play. The Huskies qualified for a bowl game after ending the regular season at 6-6, facing Louisville in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, but fell in a thriller, suffering a 35-34 setback to end the 2024 campaign.
In the matchup, Huskies quarterback Desmond Williams Jr. was brilliant, connecting on 26 of 32 passes for 374 yards with four touchdowns to just one interception. Wide receiver Giles Jackson had a huge game, too, catching 11 passes for 161 yards and four touchdowns. Considering that was Williams Jr.’s second career college game, Huskies fans have to be excited for how the signal-caller performs in 2025.
Colorado State, meanwhile, had a much better season in 2024, going 8-5 with a 6-1 record in the Mountain West Conference. The Rams ended their campaign on a low note, however, falling 43-17 to Miami (OH) in the Arizona Bowl.
Tune the channel to the Big Ten Network at 11:00 p.m. ET on Saturday night to catch an exciting nightcap out of the college football world between Colorado State and Washington.
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As a result of a snow drought and a heat wave that have both set records, some Colorado residents face the earliest restrictions on their water use ever imposed.
Denver Water announced Wednesday that it is seeking a 20% cut in water use, asking people to turn off automatic watering systems until mid-May and restricting the watering of trees and shrubs to twice a week.
“The situation is quite serious,” said Todd Hartman, a spokesperson for the utility. “We’re in such a dire situation that we could be coming back to the public in two or three months and saying you’re limited to one day a week.”
It is the earliest in the year that Denver Water has ever issued a restriction, Hartman said.
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Colorado’s snowpack peaked at extremely low levels on March 12 — nearly a month earlier than usual — then cratered during the recent heat wave that cooked nearly every state in the West.
“We already had the lowest snowpack we’ve seen since at least 1981, and now, with the heat wave conditions, we’ve already lost about 40% of the statewide snowpack” since the March 12 peak, said Peter Goble, Colorado’s assistant state climatologist. “Conditions are looking more like late April or early May.”
The water restrictions are a harbinger of what’s to come in many Western states as officials try to manage widespread drought concerns. Nearly every snow basin in the Mountain West had one of its warmest winters on record and is well behind normal when it comes to water supply, according to the U.S. drought monitor. The dwindling snowpack is likely to raise the risk of severe wildfires, hamper electricity generation at hydropower dams and force water restrictions for farmers.
Hartman said nearly every community east of the Rockies, along Colorado’s front range, is in much the same boat as Denver.
City Council members in Aurora are considering similar water restrictions; reservoirs there stand at about 58%, according to the city’s website. In the town of Erie, officials declared a water shortage emergency on March 20 after they observed a massive spike in consumption.
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Gabi Rae, a spokesperson for the town, said Erie was perilously close to having taps run dry because so many residents had started watering their lawns early amid the unseasonable heat.
“We were a day away from running out of water. That’s why it was such an emergency,” she said.
Erie officials demanded that residents stop using irrigation systems altogether.
Goble said this month’s heat wave has set records in every corner of Colorado, sometimes by double digits.
“I can’t remember seeing a single heat wave that broke this many records, and seeing it across such a large portion of the country is certainly eye-popping,” he said, adding: “I’m located in Fort Collins, and we got up to 91 last Saturday. The previous record for March was 81, so we smashed that record. And it wasn’t just one day, either.”
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Skiers at Breckenridge Ski Resort as temperatures reached into the 50s this month. Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images
Denver Water, which serves about 1.5 million residents in the city and its surrounding suburbs, gets about half of its water from the Upper Colorado River Basin and the South Platte River Basin. The latter’s snowpack was at about 42% of normal Tuesday, the utility reported. The Upper Colorado River Watershed was at 55%.
Systemwide, Denver Water’s reservoirs are about 80% full, which is only about 5 percentage points lower than in a typical year.
“That sounds pretty good,” Hartman said. “Except that what we’re not going to be able to rely on is that rush of water that will bring those reservoirs back up, because the snowpack is so low.”
In other words, the snowpack — a natural water reservoir — is mostly tapped already and won’t replenish reservoirs later this spring and into summer, when runoff usually peaks.
In Erie, city workers plan to aggressively police water use until sometime next week using smart meters that monitor residential usage. Rae said the city is also sending utility workers to patrol neighborhoods and look for sprinklers that are turned on.
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“People have been kind of annoyed with how aggressive we were, and I don’t necessarily think they understand the ramifications if we weren’t,” Rae said. “It is an actual serious emergency situation. We were so close to reaching empty, there would literally be no water coming out of the taps — hospitals, schools, fire hydrants, your home would have no water.”
Although the limits on outdoor watering will be lifted soon, Rae expects more restrictions later this spring and summer.
Some people who live in the Denver metro area on Thursday afternoon were making calls to 911 after skies became noticeably hazy and winds kicked up. It was due to smoke from wildfires in Nebraska moving into Colorado. A cold front also was moving through the Front Range, and there is dust in the air.
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The poor air conditions led to reduced visibility downtown after 3 p.m. Several of CBS Colorado’s City Cams showed dust or smoke in the air.
Temperatures were expected to drop by as much as 20 to 30 degrees with the cold front.
The suddenly dusty skies prompted at least one fire agency to put out a plea to residents to please only call 911 “if you see flames.” That warning was put out by South Metro Fire Rescue, which shared a photo on X of an office building with haze visible outside.
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South Metro Fire Rescue said in their post that the smoke is from Colorado’s neighbor to the east. They called it a “significant haze” in the air.
Earlier this month, the Morrill Fire and the Cottonwood Fire burned a significant amount of Nebraska grassland and ranchland. They have mostly been contained by firefighters. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said those two fires combined with several others have burned approximately 800,000 acres of land. On Thursday, Pillen announced that he is signing several executive actions intended to ease the burden caused by the fires.
There were no wildfires burning in the Denver metro area on Thursday afternoon.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – A homicide suspect based out of Colorado, wanted in a fentanyl-related death, is back in the state after being captured in Colombia.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) said 33-year-old Max Arsenault had been on the run since January 17.
Deputies said this stemmed from an incident in May 2023, where deputies responded to a call for a man named Nicholas Dorotik, who was found unresponsive.
ACSO said the cause of death was a mixed drug overdose involving meth and fentanyl, having about three times the lethal amount of fentanyl in his system.
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One year later, Arsenault was arrested. He was scheduled for trial in January 2026 when deputies said he fled the country while on bond three days before the trial was set to start.
He was caught in Medellin, Colombia, on March 4, following a two-month international investigation. He has since been extradited back to Denver, where he is facing charges and awaiting trial.