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SPORTS HYPE TRACED TO WILD WEST SHOW

Buffalo Bill Cody enjoys a gondola ride in Venice with a Native American entourage in 1889. (Photo compliments of the Colorado Historical Society. Used by permission.)

William Frederick Cody was a born athlete. From his booming arrival in this world in 1846 to his quiet departure in 1917 he enjoyed success as a army scout, a Pony Express rider, a trapper, an Indian fighter and a buffalo hunter. None of these frontier occupations was mastered by sitting around on the couch watching American Idle.

Mashed potato competition changes venue

No Irish in 2012

(Pea Green) The 135th Annual Snuffy Smith Memorial Smashed Potatoes Struggle will take place at Pea Green Hall on September 30. For decades held at

Friendship Hall in Montrose, the event has moved due to what organizers call disturbances and conflicts with the police, who were called a record 14 times to break up fights in 2011.

DATA BACKS HOPE OF NIGHT LIFE ON MARS

(Cahone) Initial data sent back to earth from Mars Pathfinder indicates that a night life exists on the Red Planet. Martian rover craft, scurrying about the surface, revealed multicolored rocks, craters and other geological features that are much like those in places like Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiro and Bahrain. Weathered ruins of what appear to be neon signs dot the landscape leading scientists to believe that nightclubs once loomed.