What News and Media Content Is Available on the UCCS Athletics Website?

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The official UCCS Athletics site at gomountainlions.com carries four main kinds of media content: written news under Top Stories, photo collections under Mountain Lions Galleries, video and promotional clips in the Aside Videos Promos area, and a rotating featured display made up of the ContentStream and SlideShow sections. All of it sits on the homepage alongside the schedule, so you can move between a story, a gallery, and the upcoming game list without leaving the page.

News: Top Stories

Top Stories is the main news section. It is the first content block on the page, positioned above the schedule, which tells you it is where the site puts its newest or most important written items. Expect game recaps, previews, and program announcements here.

If you are looking for a specific story rather than browsing, this is the section to scan first — the headline text is the entry point, and the section is labeled so you can identify it without guessing which block is news and which is promotion.

Photos: Mountain Lions Galleries

Mountain Lions Galleries is the photo content area. It is a distinct section from Top Stories, so photos are not mixed into the news feed — you go to the galleries when you want images rather than articles. Typical uses are event coverage and team photo sets.

Video and promotional content

The site includes a Videos Promos block (listed as "Aside Videos Promos"), which holds video clips and promotional material. This is separate from both the written news and the photo galleries, so video is treated as its own content type rather than embedded only inside stories.

Featured and rotating media: ContentStream and SlideShow

Two sections handle featured, rotating media:

Section What it does
ContentStream Surfaces a stream of featured media items
SlideShow Rotates highlighted items visually

Both appear on the homepage as part of the featured display area, which means the most prominent media on the site changes over time rather than staying fixed. If something you saw earlier is no longer on the homepage, it has likely rotated out of these sections rather than been removed.

How the pieces fit together

The homepage order is: Top Stories, then the Mountain Lions Schedule, then ContentStream, SlideShow, Mountain Lions Galleries, and the Aside Videos Promos block. That layout gives you a practical reading order:

  1. Top Stories — catch up on written news.
  2. Schedule — check upcoming and recent results.
  3. ContentStream / SlideShow — see what the site is currently featuring.
  4. Mountain Lions Galleries — browse photos.
  5. Videos Promos — watch clips and promotional content.

One thing to note: the schedule area shows both "Upcoming" and "Results" alongside a link to the Full Schedule, so the homepage gives you a summary while the full schedule page holds the complete list. Media content follows the same pattern — the homepage surfaces highlights, and the individual sections hold the fuller set.