A moment. A great sports moment. We have all witnessed them. We talk about them the next day, into the next year and remember them beyond.

Every person, every team, every player has a great sports moment. From John Elway’s “Helicopter” to win the 1998 Super Bowl to the 2008 women’s collegiate softball team that carried the injured opposing player around the diamond, to your own perfect mogul run or hole in one, there are many amazing moments that celebrate the magic of sports. We celebrate winning moments, spectacular, historic or heroic moments. There are many we never witness.

Denver Sports is the non-profit organization charged with bringing sporting events to Denver. The Denver Sports Top 9 Moments is a unique video contest to nominate and vote for the greatest moments in Colorado sports. The statewide contest culminates with a red carpet awards show that connects and celebrates all levels of sports in Colorado from the prior year. From the pros, to collegiate, to prep, to youth to special moments and a moment of a lifetime. The inaugural event will be held the evening of March 1st, 2012, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Denver Sports has partnered with KUSA on the Denver Sports Top 9 Moments. The event will be promoted extensively through their broadcast and web mediums giving the “Top 9″ significant statewide reach. Promotion will begin in June and July of 2011 and continue in November and January 2012. Select portions of the event will potentially be re-broadcast either via television or the web.

The goal is to honor, recognize and celebrate the best sports moments that we know and more importantly don’t know in Colorado.

To view all submitted videos please visit the Top9 Moments website by clicking Here!

RegEvent is a new software and service launched by Denver Sports to provide local event coordinators a solution to manage registration and promote events.  The software package includes online registration, volunteer management and fundraising capabilities built into one seamless and easy to use tool.  Some of the features and benefits include:

Online Registration

  • Comprehensive event management functionality in one single web based tool
  • Strong administrator capabilities for event set up and management
  • Simplify your registration process, increase revenues and benefit the community at the same time
  • Reduce and eliminate data entry labor with real-time reporting of finances
  • Robust reporting and participant databases
  • Volunteer management tools

Event Promotion

  • Promotion of event by listing on Denver Sports event page
  • Creation of customizable web page on Denver Sports site to establish a long term identity for event

List Management & Email Communications

  • Manage registrants and send electronic updates about your event
  • Maintain up to date lists of registrants, sponsors and volunteers
  • Send reminders and confirmation emails straight from the system
  • Export all data to excel spreadsheets
  • Create and manage multiple databases through opt-in sign-up feature

Online Donations/Fundraising

  • Fundraising setup, tracking, and dynamically created fundraising pages that are easy to use
  • Make donations to event during registration process
  • Create and manage teams for fundraising
  • Allow participants to raise money with personal fundraising pages

For more information on RegEvent please contact Tim Riddle at tim@denversports.org or 303-744-6372

 

Denver Sports does not receive public funding in order to do its work. Bidding on and bringing events to Denver takes money and support. Your tax deductible donation and support of Denver Sports helps to continue our efforts to bring the best sporting events here.

  • Denver Sports works collaboratively with partners like VISIT Denver and the City of Denver to bring sporting events to the city.
  • Supports the bid process – every bid is an elaborate process and costs money.
  • Keeps Denver competitive with a “guarantee war chest.” Many marquee events require a monetary “guarantee.” Other, competing cities are well positioned with a tax payer funded sport war chest to bring these events to their city.
  • Aligns your company or organization with a non-profit of a different sort – we sell Denver as a perfect host city. It works not only for sport, but for businesses and for visitors.
  • Builds relationships with hosting events rights holders, national and international sport governing bodies and promoters.
  

  • Denver will host the 2012 Women’s FInal Four!
  • Denver will host the 2014 FIL Men’s World Lacrosse Championships!
  • Denver Sports continues to lead the effort to move Denver into the circle of consideration for a future Winter Olympic Games.

sports are good... good for denver


Denver is a sporting city and sports are good for Denver. Sport showcases Denver as a vibrant, active city to the nation and the world. It’s good economically, it’s good socially. 


Founded in 2001 as a private, not for profit organization, the Metro Denver Sports Commission’s charge is to bid on, bring and create sporting events for Denver.


Our mission is to elevate Denver through sport and enhance Denver’s reputation as the “Perfect Host City.” It’s a good investment. Why?

  • Sport is an economic engine, increasing local spending and bringing in “untargeted” visitors.
  • Showcases Denver on a national and global stage.
  • Like the arts, sport is part of our psyche and culture – both from a spectator and participant perspective.
  • Sport draws people and organizations together.
  

In the last three years, we’ve:

  • Hosted the 2008 NCAA Frozen Four Collegiate National Hockey Championships. It brought $11 million in direct economic impact to Denver.
  • Hosted the 2010 Olympic Curling Trials and named the first two teams to Team USA for the 2010 Olympic Games, bringing in $2 million in economic impact and Denver helped set the all-time attendance record. It was broadcast live across the country.
  • Hosted 2009 Sportaccord – the largest international conference of the Olympic movement. It was the first time this conference has ever been held in the Americas and brought $6 million in direct economic impact to the city.
  • Hosted the 2009 Churchill Cup – a three week international rugby event featuring the USA, England, Ireland, Argentina, Canada and Georgia. The Churchill Cup and Denver were showcased worldwide via Sky Sports.
  • Won the right to host the 2012 Women’s Final Four — the largest NCAA event Denver is able to host. It’s the first time it will be played in the Mountain Time Zone and will bring 30,000 visitors to town.
  • Became one of four finalists for the 2010 – 2012 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Final Four. The Lacrosse Final Four has never been west of Philadelphia; Denver Sports’ bid was the closest any western city has ever been to hosting the event.
  • Won the right to host the 2014 FIL Men’s World Lacrosse Championships.

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