Deion Sanders, Colorado Buffaloes and bladder cancer
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Deion Sanders, Prime and Colorado
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The BYU football program will kickoff conference play in September on the road against Colorado. When Colorado head coach Deion Sanders announced he would have
Coach Prime has dealt with health challenges over the offseason. The Colorado Buffaloes head coach battled with a mystery ailment after the 2024 college football season, and it turned out to be bladder cancer. However, the charismatic coach isn't the only one in the Sanders family who has dealt with an ailment.
Sanders underwent a procedure that saw two of his toes amputated in 2022, and another emergency surgery in June 2023 to treat blood clots. As for Askevold, she has been there every step of the way, as she was the Head Football Athletic Trainer at Jackson State starting 2021, and joined Sanders once he took the job in Boulder.
Coach Prime is a dad to several kids, whom he welcomed from previous marriages. Learn more about Deion’s family here.
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Deion Sanders has been instrumental in turning the Colorado Buffaloes from a perennial underachieving program into a Top 25 team in college football.