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Kenneth Faried: Five memorable moments from the Nuggets's favorite Manimal

Denver Nuggets power forward Kenneth Faried stepped into the national spotlight over the weekend, lighting up the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge game by scoring forty points, pulling down ten rebounds and earning MVP honors, and then wowing the crowd with one of the best dunks of Saturday night's Slam ... More >>

Viking Chris Kluwe tackles discrimination in major-league sports

Top ten things non-sports fans need to know about Peyton Manning

Editor's note: With Peyton Manning's regular-season debut for the Broncos set for Sunday, we offer this (hilarious) (and helpful!) Peyton primer by Melanie Asmar that first appeared last March. Hello, Denver sports noobs. Perhaps you've heard of a new man-about-town named Peyton Manning. No, no -- ... More >>

Photos: JaVale McGee memes continue idiot theme after he signs $44M Nuggets contract

The hilarious NBA Memes page has made the Denver Nuggets' JaVale McGee a star by consistently portraying him as a total moron. The Deadspin feature "That's So JaVale" does pretty much the same thing, and given the moment last season when he threw the game ball into the stands on national TV, the sit ... More >>

JaVale McGee memes: Is he new Nuggets star or complete idiot?

In the Nuggets' clobbering of the Lakers last night, JaVale McGee scored just two points after notching 21 in the previous victory. Such is the enigma of McGee, who's got great physical skills but is widely regarded to be a moron -- the star of his own Deadspin feature who recently tossed away his T ... More >>

Video: JaVale McGee the hero (!) as Nuggets stave off Lakers, elimination

No denying it: After the Nuggets lost game four of their playoffs series against the Lakers at home on Sunday night, I thought they were doomed to another 4-1 first-round exit -- and I wasn't the only one. But stunningly, Denver managed to beat L.A. 102-99 in what was expected to be a close-out cont ... More >>

Cop rips media for crucifying Nugs court walker Savannah McMillan-Christmas

Update: Savannah McMillan-Christmas, the woman who walked onto the court during Sunday's Denver-L.A. playoff game, was originally reported to be a known stalker of Nuggets players. But as we wrote in an update on view below, this account has now been discredited -- and Denver Police spokesman Sonny ... More >>

Nuggets-Lakers playoffs game 1: Ty Lawson comes up small, Andrew Bynum big

Last week, our Kyle Garratt assembled a list of five reasons why the Nuggets might upset the Lakers -- but during Sunday's humiliating 103-88 defeat in L.A., there appeared to be none. The Nugs' desultory performance was epitomized by Ty Lawson's awful game, but he was hardly the sole Denverite at ... More >>

Nuggets have to beat Oklahoma City to avoid OKC beating them in the playoffs

Your Denver Nuggets are officially a playoff team. But they'll likely be out of the postseason mighty fast unless they manage to use the NBA circle of life to prevent the death of their 2012 season. To whit: If they don't up-end the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road Wednesday, they'll likely meet O ... More >>

Video: Nugget JaVale McGee's awful play turns him into Deadspin star

During the Nuggets' embarrassing loss to the third worst team in the Western Conference on Saturday, JaVale McGee added a ridiculous highlight to Deadspin's collection of mostly awful (but sometimes great) feats. Oh, did we forget to mention that Deadspin has an entire section dedicated to the boneh ... More >>

Peyton Manning: Top Ten things non-sports fans should know about him

Hello, Denver sports noobs. Perhaps you've heard of a new man-about-town named Peyton Manning. No, no -- he's not the guy who won Project Runway All Stars. He's a football player. A quarterback. In other words, Peyton Manning is the new Tim Tebow. Except less overtly Christian and better at doing t ... More >>

Video: Did anchor Kaley O'Kelley say "F*ck!" about Peyton Manning Broncos news?

Peyton Manning's choice of the Broncos spurred lotsa profanity on Twitter from fans of the teams he passed by -- but did Arizona-based KTVK-TV anchor Kaley O'Kelley follow suit? Deadspin (via Jimmy Traina) claimed O'Kelley reacted to the news by exclaiming, "Fuck!" live on the air. However, she insi ... More >>

Lindsey Vonn tells Twitter Nation that Tim Tebow didn't break up her marriage

Lindsey Vonn.​It's been mighty hard for web surfers to come up with grime on Tim Tebow. But you had to know trolls wouldn't stop until they found a chink in his heavenly armor -- or hyped nothing into something. All of which explains the latest crazy rumor of the week. Which is: The Chosen On ... More >>

Hey. Bro. Sports: Anthony Weiner and the dick pic hall of shame

Weiner weiner Weiner weiner weiner weiner Weiner weiner.​New York Rep. Anthony Weiner -- Hold up. Get it? His name is Weiner. That's his name, and also it refers to a penis. If you spell it differently. Funny stuff huh -- Weiner faces a dirty photos scandal because he took pictures of his dick ... More >>

Scottie Ewing-Michael Hancock link, election day break-in & the swing king's tangled past

Scottie Ewing.​Michael Hancock's election took place against a bizarre backdrop. A Complete Colorado piece alleging a link between Hancock and the Denver Players prostitution ring that brought down Judge Edward Nottingham was ignored by mainstreamers, but it blew up on talk radio. On Monday, K ... More >>

Houston Texans defensive coordinator Frank Bush spotted at 2 a.m. at Appaloosa Grill

Frank Bush, Appaloosa Grill patron.​Frank Bush, the man who oversees the worst passing defense in the NFL -- that of the Houston Texans -- saw his squad defeated by Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos on Sunday, and a writer at our sister paper in Houston is taking Bush, and his boss Frank Gary K ... More >>

10 kinds of bros you'll find at a music festival

Click to enlarge​Urban Dictionary, the Internet's home for crass generalizations, defines a bro as, "Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren't making an ass of themselves, they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exci ... More >>

Woody Paige: Is he kissing that woman or trying to swallow her?

Imagine a giant sucking sound.​A brave photog sent Deadspin a photo of our own Woody Paige publicly macking on a young woman at Big Game Restaurant and Lounge. The post makes us feel a little bad for the Woodman -- but that's trumped by our eagerness to laugh, point and share both the full-si ... More >>

Scottie Ewing fiasco draws attention to "Carl Bernstein of the shady Denver nightclub beat"

Scottie Ewing and friend.​Local pro-skier-turned-swinger-magnate Scottie Ewing grabbed headlines after federal charges were filed against him last week for allegedly failing to pay taxes on the Denver Sugars and Denver Players Club, a high-end prostitution service he owned and sold in 2005. Al ... More >>

Does new Broncos punter Mitch Berger party as hard as Kyle Orton used to? Signs point to "yes"!

"This is what I call getting double-teamed!"​ When Broncos fans Googled new quarterback Kyle Orton this past spring, many of them were greeted with image after image of KO boozin' it up and getting' crazy with the ladies. He's reportedly left those lifestyle extremes behind, or at least engage ... More >>

Adventures in Censorship: How to call Jay Cutler a "pussy" without pissing off your readers

Jay Cutler: A total kitty cat?​Funny story out Chicago yesterday -- especially if, like most Broncos fans, you desperately want Jay Cutler to wind up working as a bouncer at the one strip club of Santa Claus, Indiana. The story went like this: Vikings receiver Bobby Wade went on a podcast in M ... More >>

Mark Cuban blog-pologizes to K-Mart, Mama K-Mart

(UPDATE: The video above, which I just saw on Deadspin, seems to support Cuban's thug theory). Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has finally apologized to Kenyon Martin and Kenyon Martin's mom -- sort of. Cuban, who apparently called Mrs. K-Mart's son a "thug" after game three, writes on his blog this ... More >>

Kyle Orton, DrunkAthlete.com poster boy

A photo of Broncos QB Kyle Orton on DrunkAthlete.com. Last Friday's blog about new Broncos QB Kyle Orton and his party-hearty proclivities turns out to be the tip of the ice tray when it comes to snapshots of Mr. O getting his drink on. Indeed, type "Kyle Orton" into Google and the second word that ... More >>

Is Rick Reilly losing his bite, or does he just need his bicuspids sharpened?

No contemporary sportswriter is more decorated (or better paid) than Denver's Rick Reilly, and so no sportswriter is more regularly critiqued. Since leaping wallet first from the sinking Sports Illustrated to ESPN last year -- a move he outlined in the January Message column "Rick Reilly, Loving Lim ... More >>

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Letters to the Editor

From the week of 12/07/2006

Knock on Woody

Woody Paige said his return to the Post wasn't imminent shortly before conceding that it was -- but he swears he didn't lie. Honest.