The home of the Denver Broncos has a brand new name. Denver-based Sports Authority, a sporting goods company, purchased the naming rights to the Broncos home stadium from Invesco, and the Metropolitan Football Stadium District unanimously voted to change the stadium’s name to Sports Authority Field at Mile High. The ten-year old stadium had been known as Invesco Field at Mile High since it opened. Sports Authority owns the naming rights for the next ten years. The Broncos are 86-74 at the new stadium since it replaced the original Mile High Stadium in 2001. The stadium has also hosted numerous concerts and the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The first game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High will be this Saturday, when the Broncos host the Buffalo Bills in a preseason contest.

Four home runs weren’t enough for the Colorado Rockies last night, as they fell to the Florida Marlins 6-5 at Coors Field. After a walk-off win the night before, the Rockies fell behind 3-0 before they even had a chance to bat, as starting pitcher Jhoulys Chacin struggled to his worst start of the season. Chacin would allow five runs in just four innings of work. Troy Tulowitzki and Seth Smith hit solo homers in the second inning to get the Rockies on the board, and Carlos Gonzalez added a solo blast in the fourth. With the Rockies down 6-3 and two out in the ninth, Jason Giambi smacked a two-run pinch-hit homer, but Dexter Fowler made the final out with the tying run on base. The Rockies and Marlins wrap up their series tonight in Denver. ESPN Radio 1410 has the action with pregame coverage at 7:05 and the first pitch at 7:40.

Big Ten women’s soccer coaches released their preseason poll yesterday, and the Nebraska women are picked to finish seventh out of the twelve teams in their first season in the conference. The Husker women won three regular-season conference titles and five conference tournament titles in their 15 seasons in the Big 12. They finished 13-7-1 last season. Penn State, who has won at least a share of the Big Ten crown in each of the last 13 seasons, was picked to finish first by the coaches, with Ohio State picked second and Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan rounding out the top five. Husker junior forward Morgan Marlborough was named to the Herrman Trophy watch list yesterday. She finished with 18 goals, 48 points and 2.29 points per game last season, all of which ranked her in the top five in the nation.

The Colorado Rockies hope they can build off of their third walk-off victory of the season as they face the Florida Marlins for the second game of their three-game series tonight at Coors Field. The Rockies opened the series with a bang last night, as Jason Giambi’s three-run home run with two outs in the ninth inning lifted the Rockies to a 7-4 win. It was the first time a Rockies player had hit a walk-off homer this season. Jhoulys Chacin will take the mound for the Rockies tonight to try and become the first Rockies starter to double-digit wins this season. The righty is 9-9 with a 3.39 ERA. Florida will counter with Anibal Sanchez, who is making his first start at Coors Field. ESPN Radio 1410 has all the action from Denver tonight. Pregame coverage starts at 7:05 with the first pitch at 7:40.

The Nebraska volleyball team will enter their first season in the Big Ten as a national title contender. The Huskers rank fifth in the preseason AVCA volleyball coaches poll, released yesterday afternoon. Nebraska is one of three Big Ten teams ranked in the top ten of the poll, joining eighth-ranked Illinois and number one ranked Penn State, winner of the last four national championships. USC, Cal, and Texas round out the top five just ahead of the Huskers, who went 29-3 last season and made it to the NCAA Regional round for the seventeenth consecutive season. Minnesota, Purdue, Ohio State and Michigan also made the top 25 from Nebraska’s new conference. In addition to facing six ranked teams in conference action, the Huskers will play number 15 Colorado State and number 18 Iowa State in non-conference matches.