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Unapologetically themselves: CSU Pueblo Softball’s historic season built years in the making

Krdo · · 455 words · By Dylan Foreman
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Unapologetically themselves: CSU Pueblo Softball’s historic season built years in the making PUEBLO, Colo.

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Unapologetically themselves: CSU Pueblo Softball’s historic season built years in the making PUEBLO, Colo.

Why it matters

(KRDO)-- For CSU Pueblo softball, success this season has come from staying grounded and staying true to who they are.

Common ground

We can’t be too low,” head coach Bianca Duran said.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://krdo.com/news/sports-news/2026/04/28/csu-pueblo-softball-rmac/

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Loaded Language 70% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Under Duran, now in her fifth season, the program has steadily built toward this moment”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of the name 'Bianca' and information about Bianca Censori; there is no mention of a coach named Bianca Duran or her tenure at CSU Pueblo.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · Since her marriage to Kanye West in January 2023, Bianca Censori has undergone a dramatic transformation in both her appearance and sartorial choices.
https://www.hellomagazine.com/us/894130/bianca-censoris-stri…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 7, 2024 · Bianca is a beautiful Italian name with roots in Tuscany. It's a traditional name dating back to the medieval period. Find out more about it here.
https://www.momjunction.com/baby-names/bianca/
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web search NEUTRAL — Bianca ... Bianca is a feminine given name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche. [1] It is known in the Anglosphere as a character in William Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca
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Claim 2: “CSU Pueblo faces Colorado Christian in a four-game series this weekend.”
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The evidence provided includes general schedules for NCAAF (Football) for 2026, but there is no specific mention of a four-game softball series between CSU Pueblo and Colorado Christian for the current or upcoming weekend.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The CSU Pueblo ThunderWolves are the athletic teams at Colorado State University Pueblo. The ThunderWolves are a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. They were previously known as the Sou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSU_Pueblo_ThunderWolves
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU Pueblo) is a regional comprehensive public university in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Colorado State University System and a Hispanic-Servin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_University_Pueb…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado State University - Global Campus (CSU Global) is the first statutorily defined, fully online public university in the United States. It is a member of the Colorado State University System. F…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_University–Glob…
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Claim 3: “the RMAC itself has gained national recognition this season, with Colorado Christian emerging as one of just two teams in all of college softball to reach 50 wins.”
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The evidence provided does not contain any information regarding Colorado Christian's win count for the current softball season. The results discuss high school teams, NCAA history, and men's soccer from 1997-98.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado Christian University (CCU) is a private Christian university in Lakewood, Colorado, United States. CCU was founded by Clifton Fowler in 1914 as the Denver Bible Institute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Christian_University
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado Springs is a home rule city that is the county seat of, and the most populous city in, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The city had a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.0…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,_Colorado
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado Springs Christian Schools is a private pre-k through 12th grade Christian school system in the cities of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Woodland Park, Colorado. Its "Colorado Springs Campus"…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_Christian_Sch…
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Claim 4: “The ThunderWolves are putting together their best season since 2001, the last time the program won a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) championship.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that CSU Pueblo's best season/title win since 2001 occurred recently, specifically mentioning the 2001 RMAC championship as the previous benchmark.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The CSU Pueblo ThunderWolves are the athletic teams at Colorado State University Pueblo. The ThunderWolves are a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. They were previously known as the Sou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSU_Pueblo_ThunderWolves
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU Pueblo) is a regional comprehensive public university in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Colorado State University System and a Hispanic-Servin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_University_Pueb…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) from approximately 1910 through the late 1960s, is a college athletic conference affiliated with th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Athletic_Confer…
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