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A basketball book with the word "macrophenomenal" in the title. No, it's not by Charles Barkley. (Denver Stiffs)
The good, the bad, and the unknown about Ken Salazar. With hats like that, the ugly goes without saying. (5280)
For the Rocky's Penny Parker, the fight shall go on. Yipee? (Denver PR Blog)
TNT studio commentators Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley.
The Denver Nuggets' 106-90 victory last night over the Portland Trail Blazers is being portrayed by most of the local media as a dominating performance, and that makes sense. After all, Carmelo Anthony put up 38 points after serving a one-game suspension for being a baby (a.k.a., refusing to come out of a game when coach George Karl tried to substitute for him), and the team as a whole looked much more together than it did
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Isn't it nice to hear national basketball commentators like Charles Barkley say nice things about your Denver Nuggets for a change? Sir Charles has typically treated the Nugs with all the respect of something he scraped off his shoe -- but the further the team gets into the playoffs, the more effusive he's become. The TNT clip above (also featuring Chris Webber, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson) dates from just prior to the start of the team's current series with the
Photo by Adam PerryThey're not quite Dead...
Big as life.
Today in Backbeat Online:
• Last night: The Dead at the Pepsi Center.
• The 38th annual CHUN Capitol Hill People's Fair line-up announced.
• 3OH!3 breaks top ten on Billboard Hot 100.
• Freaky Friday: "Obama Flashback" -- Autotune the News.
• MP3 Freeloader: Tonight, the Calf Branders CD release party at the Skylark.
• CacheFlowe does Kraftwerk tonight at CD release.
• MP3 Freeloader: Tonight, the Mighty 18 Wheeler CD rele
A photo from DrunkAthlete.comKyle Orton fueling up for action.
Now that the spittle-flecked anger has died down from the whole Jay Cutler-to-the-Bears brouhaha, how do NFL prognosticators rate your Denver Broncos in the months prior to the start of the 2009-2010 season? Not very highly, to say the least. This week, Adam Caplan, who writes for Scout.com (a Fox Sports site), weighed in with his "NFL Power Rankings Version 1.0," and by his reckoning, the Broncos are the 24th strongest squad in the
A Flickr photo.If Barkley's been gambling on the Nuggets like he's been talking about them, he's richer than ... well, he was before. Asshole.
As you might recall, TNT's Charles Barkley was the first national analyst to say the Nuggets could win a title. As you also might recall, Charles Barkley has quite the gambling habit -- so fierce that he was once sued by the Wynn for $400,000 in unpaid gambling debts, which he probably racked up while waiting for a cab.
But if Barkley's been putting his
