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Hall of famer comes home and longtime assistant steps up to fill vacancies

Both Glenwood Springs High School basketball programs earned player- and coach-of-the year honors in the Western Slope League All-Conference selections announced this week. In the revamped 5A league that included Glenwood Springs, Palisade, Eagle Valley...

Driving home from the Glenwood girls’ playoff game on Friday night, I heard senior guard Ruby Patch on the radio making a comment about how all five of the seniors on the Demon team had...

“They kept working through adversity early in the season and we’re now at the point where we are playing our best basketball.

After working overtime in last Saturday’s games in Durango, the Glenwood girls and boys returned to the basketball court on Tuesday night at the Chavez-Spencer Gymnasium in Glenwood for a 5A Western Slope League contest...

The annual Demon Invitational Basketball Tournament took center stage at Glenwood Springs High School this weekend, with the home-standing Glenwood boys and girls hitting the court for three games each Thursday, Friday and Saturday. After...

The Glenwood Springs High School boys and girls basketball teams both got their seasons started on the right foot Tuesday night with victories at cross-county rival Rifle High. The Glenwood boys won 63-40, despite giving...

Friday night’s rivalry basketball games at Rifle High School saw the Glenwood Springs Demons usher in a new year’s sweep of their neighbors from down the interstate.

Mike Vidakovich In the late winter of 1975, I was in eighth grade and I went to the high school on a weekend evening to watch the Glenwood Demons battle their big rivals from Carbondale, the Roaring Fork Rams. As was usually the case back then, it was standing room only in the old Glenwood gym when Bob Chavez’s Demons squared off against Sonny Darien’s Rams. There have been a couple of plays — or moments — that have taken place on that old hardwood floor in Glenwood that I can now, and ...