Sports

Mines Rebranded: Football is King

By McKenna Larson The Golddigger is the annual satire issue of The Oredigger. All stories on this page were intentionally written with satire in mind and are not to be taken seriously. Contact us at orediggerstories@gmail.com for any comments or questions. School officials have made the drastic, but unsurprising, announcement to declare engineering dead. The…

An Olympic Love Story

By Jeremiah Vaille Since the Winter Olympics are ongoing just 6 months after the delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics, and this is The Oredigger’s Valentines Day edition, I figured I would share a story of Olympic love. While athletes must focus on their sports and competition, the Olympic village is still full of socializing and some…

Colorado Olympians to Watch

By Jeremiah Vaille The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games have begun and will continue until February 20th. Colorado is well represented at the Olympics this year. Of the 224 athletes selected to represent Team USA, 23 currently call Colorado home. Additionally, 31 athletes in total were either born in Colorado or live and train in…

Athlete Spotlight- Dillon Powell

By Jeremiah Vaille Running at nearly 13.5 miles per hour for 5 kilometers may sound like it requires superpowers, but for Dillon Powell of the Colorado School of Mines track and field team, it is just one of his several lofty goals for the indoor track season. After a disappointing result at the NCAA Division…

Oredigger Fall Teams are Postseason Bound

By Jeremiah Vaille After the Colorado School of Mines men’s and women’s cross country teams finished first and second respectively at the NCAA South Central Region Championships in Lubbock, Texas, they will head to the NCAA Division II Championships. At the Region Championship, Colorado School of Mines runner, Dillon Powell, led the men to the…

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