Gold Over Black, 37-27, In Entertaining Spring Game

BOULDER - As spring games go, the Colorado Buffaloes just might be onto something.

Using squads stocked at mid-week by a well-received player draft, the Gold team defeated the Black squad 37-27 Saturday at Folsom Field to conclude the Buffs' 2010 spring drills.

Splitting the teams with a draft conducted by four captains on each squad was a mega-hit among the players, while proving functional for the coaches.

 "I liked it a lot . . . it was more competitive," tight end DaVaughn Thornton said. "We go against each other every day in practice. When you can go out there and pick your teams, get the draft going, get a little trash-talking going on, it's great."...MORE