Colorado State and Colorado football coaches and players will participate in their leagues' media days this week — the Rams in Las Vegas with the Mountain West and the Buffaloes in Los Angeles with the Pac- 12.
That heralds the beginning of preseason practices in early August, and they'll eventually get together for the Rocky Mountain Showdown on Sept. 19 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
In all my years in Colorado, in the wake of graduating from the school in Boulder and covering both programs, this is the part I "get" but don't understand: Especially because the state schools are in different leagues, CU fans enthusiastically should be rooting for CSU, and CSU fans enthusiastically should be rooting for CU.