Colorado backup quarterback Julian “JuJu” Lewis suffered a medical emergency at the school's athletic facility on Wednesday and was taken to the hospital, his father said on social media.
T. Carlton Lewis posted in a statement on the platform X on Thursday morning that Lewis was “recovering and thankful to his medical team, teammates, and Colorado fans for their prayers and support.”
He added: “Please respect Julian and the Lewis family’s privacy.” No other information was provided.
Colorado issued a statement saying the school “extends our full support to JuJu and his family through this medical emergency.
“He remains in the thoughts of every CU player, coach, and staff member and we will continue to assist in any way we can in his full recovery,” the statement said. “His health and well-being remain our top priority during this time.”
Julian Lewis' teammate, wide receiver Joseph Williams, also posted about Lewis on social media: “Praying for you 10 I love you man God has your back twin."
Williams said in another post: "Y’all are so quick to judge us but don’t know what we may go through, athletes mental health matters also!!! God bless everyone.”
A highly touted recruit, Lewis, who's in his second year at Colorado, opened the season as the starter before coach Deion Sanders turned the offense over to Isaac Wilson. Lewis has thrown for 733 yards and six touchdowns this season, along with two interceptions.
Lewis turned in a record-setting afternoon against Weber State last month when he threw four touchdown passes in the first half and ran for another.
Colorado plays Kansas State on Saturday.
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FILE - Colorado quarterback Julian Lewis (10) passes the ball during an NCAA college football game against Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Look up as you enter Amsterdam's new Art Zoo museum, and a 12-foot crocodile stares down at you, mouth open, ready to chomp.
The taxidermic reptile is one of hundreds of preserved creatures on display, alongside artfully arranged piles of bones, illuminated tulips encased in apothecary jars and a cabinet of grotesque fish.
While it’s not a Halloween-themed museum, the show should appeal to anybody looking for something a little dark this spooky season.
“It was a little creepy,” admitted Tomáš Vaško, a Slovak living in the Dutch capital, after touring the museum on a dark October day.
Art Zoo is the creation of Dutch artists Jaap Sinke and Ferry van Tongeren, who draw inspiration from “wunderkammers,” or curiosity cabinets collected by wealthy Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries to showcase objects from the natural world.
“The main thing is that we like storytelling with the animals," van Tongeren told The Associated Press. "We like to add drama. We add an attitude to the animals, where traditional taxidermists just want to mimic nature.”
Behind him, a cheetah slouched in an alcove under the watchful eye of a cassowary.
In natural history museums, animals are posed as they could be seen in the wild. At the Art Zoo, a Japanese giant spider crab stretches its 6-foot legs above a doorway beside the leg bones of a mastodon that nearly reaches the ceiling.
The duo rose to fame in 2015 after shark-pickling artist Damien Hirst purchased their entire exhibition from a London art show.
Unlike at a traditional zoo, the human visitors are confined, not the animals. The display rooms in the 17th-century canal house where the Art Zoo is located are enclosed by brooding, black metal cages.
“We really like the concept of having all the people in a cage and then all the animals free,” van Tongeren says. “In that way, the whole building becomes one artwork.”
None of the animals in the eclectic collection were taken from the wild.
“All our animals come from zoos where they died of natural causes,” said Sinke. Still, he acknowledged that the paperwork can be challenging. The pair primarily obtained specimens from Europe to ensure they know the history of the animals.
Sinke and van Tongeren actually consider themselves an artistic trio, crediting naturalist Charles Darwin as the third contributor to their work. They pitched the concept of the museum as the return of Darwin’s wonder.
In a nod to the man who developed the first scientific theory of evolution, one wall display contains a series of Darwin busts, turned sideways. Sinke and van Tongeren see an amusing irony in honoring Darwin inside a building that once housed the Biblical Museum.
Not everything in the collection is a real animal. Underneath the crocodile suspended from the ceiling is a wall of Jenny Hanivers, ray carcasses modified into grotesque creatures by 16th-century sailors who presented the macabre beasts as real sea monsters to gullible collectors.
Their misshapen faces appear to keep a beady eye on museum guests as they walk from caged room to caged room.
Visitors sit near a collection of bones from a Mosasaurus (70 million years old) at the Art Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
A Japanese giant spider crab stretches its legs above a doorway at the Art Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
A cheetah slouches in an alcove at the Art Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
Dutch taxidermists Jaap Sinke, left, and Ferry van Tongeren pose for a photo at the Art Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
A crocodile stares down at the entrance of the Art Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
