DENVER (CBS4)- The SMASH Lab is nearly complete, and a few engineers at CU Denver are hoping to revolutionize the football helmet. "What we expect to see is our Liquid Crystalline Elastomer ...

DENVER — A startup company at the University of Colorado Denver won the NFL’s “1st and Future” grant for inventing a technology for a safer football helmet. CU Denver startup Impressio pitched the ...

The University of Colorado football team will take the field Thursday with helmet decals honoring former Buffs great Rashaan Salaam, who died earlier this month. The team announced in a Facebook post ...

Chris Yakacki examines a football helmet. The CU Denver professor founded the company Impressio to create safer equipment. The NFL has become more sensitive to traumatic brain injuries, especially ...

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)- The NFL is giving nearly $500,000 to CU Denver. The money will help an engineering professor as he develops state-of-the-art helmets. Chris Yakacki is the co-founder of ...

Friday’s season opener is all about the late Cliff Branch, Colorado’s first former player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Branch will be honored between the first and second ...

The National Football League (NFL) and Football Research, Inc. (FRI) today awarded Impressio, Inc. and the University of Colorado Denver $491,999 in HeadHealthTECH grant funding. This will support ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After laboratory testing of dozens of helmet models, the NFL and the NFL Players Association earlier this year rated them based on how well they protect the ...