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BOULDER — When your 76-year-old father is pinned to a hospital bed by multiple sclerosis and your Buffaloes keep inventing ways to lose football games, the darkness in the kitchen feels heavier when CU coach Mike MacIntyre returns home at 4:30 a.m. after yet another defeat.
"I'd like to get the win and walk through the door with a smile on my face and the dog is not the only one smiling in the room," MacIntyre said.
Even in defeat, the family dog wags its tail when MacIntyre enters the house.