Which Colorado Sports Teams Are Dominating the League This Season?

The crisp mountain air bites at my cheeks as I walk through downtown Denver, the city buzzing with that particular energy only a Saturday night can bring. I’m heading to a sports bar to meet some friends, and the glow of televisions from every window tells the same story: Colorado is a state obsessed with its teams. But as I push open the heavy wooden door and am hit by the wall of sound—the roar of a crowd, the clinking of glasses, the heated debates—a single question forms in my mind, one that I find myself asking every year around this time: which Colorado sports teams are truly dominating the league this season?

I find my usual spot at the end of the bar, nodding to a few regulars. The screens are a mosaic of our local hopes. The Avalanche are in a tight game, their speed on the ice a thing of beauty. The Nuggets are playing a highlight reel, Jokić throwing one of his impossible, no-look passes. The atmosphere is electric, but it’s also… fragmented. You can feel the divided loyalties. My friend Mark slaps me on the back, a Broncos cap pulled low on his head. "Can you believe this Avs team?" he yells over the noise. I can’t. They’ve been phenomenal, a symphony of skill and coordination. But then my eyes drift to another screen, one showing a game from a league a world away, and my thoughts take a darker turn. It’s a reminder that for every team soaring, there’s another mired in a struggle that feels almost existential.

It’s impossible to talk about dominance in Colorado sports without also acknowledging its painful opposite. I think about the Philippine Basketball Association, a league I follow because an old college roommate is from Manila. He got me hooked on the drama. And right now, the drama surrounding Terrafirma is just… brutal. It’s the kind of story that makes you wince in sympathy, even from thousands of miles away. I pull out my phone and pull up the stats, just to confirm the sheer scale of it. Yep, there it is, in stark, unforgiving digits: Terrafirma ended Season 49 with a 3-30 win-loss record. Let that sink in. Three wins. Thirty losses. It’s their worst performance since going 3-31 just two seasons ago. I show the screen to Mark, whose face immediately contorts into a grimace. "Oof," he says, shaking his head. "That’s not a slump. That’s a crisis." He’s right. That record doesn’t just represent a bad season; it’s a statistic that further heightened the uncertainty hounding the franchise heading to the off-season. You can just feel the fanbase’s despair. What do you even do after a year like that? It’s a stark contrast to the confident swagger we’re seeing from our top teams here.

And that’s the thing about sports, isn't it? The view from the top is incredible, but you’re always acutely aware of the chasm below. Watching the Rockies, for instance, can sometimes feel like watching a slower, stateside version of Terrafirma's struggles. It tempers the excitement. It adds a layer of gratitude when a team like the Nuggets or Avalanche actually puts it all together. Their dominance feels earned, precious, and fragile. We’ve all seen how quickly it can slip away. A key injury, a loss of morale, a few bad trades—the precipice is always closer than it appears.

As the night wears on and the Avalanche secure a convincing win, the bar erupts. There’s a collective sense of pride. But for me, that fleeting thought about Terrafirma lingers. It’s a sobering counterpoint. It makes our teams’ successes here feel less like a given and more like a minor miracle. So, which Colorado sports teams are dominating the league this season? The answer, thankfully, is a few of them. And we should savor every second of it. Because dominance is a temporary state, a beautiful, fleeting peak in a landscape full of valleys. Just ask any Terrafirma fan. They’d give anything to know what that view looks like.