NHL Northwest Division

Delegating Denver #8 of 56: Connecticut

Denver Blogs: The prettiest stimulus package ever

Rocky Mountain National Park We read the local blogs so you don't have to, although we recommend it, 'cause there's some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado's national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Aval ... More >>

Sports Town USA Sippin' on Some Sizzur

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Avalanche Get the Band Back Together

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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad, Boogaard?

Rocky Mountain National Park We read the local blogs so you don't have to, although we recommend it, 'cause there's some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado's national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Aval ... More >>

"The Iron League, Huh? Lotta Fights?"

Rocky Mountain National Park We read the local blogs so you don't have to, although we recommend it, 'cause there's some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado's national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Aval ... More >>

Who's Scary Now?

Rocky Mountain National Park We read the local blogs so you don't have to, although we recommend it, 'cause there's some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado's national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Aval ... More >>

Worst. Colorado. Sports. Week. Ever.

Rocky Mountain National Park We read the local blogs so you don't have to, although we recommend it, 'cause there's some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado's national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Aval ... More >>

A Sporting Chance

Colorado sports went on a downhill slide in '99.

Buell Be Happy

The Colorado Performing Arts Festival is fun and free.

Uh-Oh, Canada!

The first nation of hockey won't be taking home the Stanley Cup this year.

Best acquisitions

Ray Bourque and Dave Andreychuk

Best sports coach -- professional

Bob Hartley Colorado Avalanche

Best Sports Team -- Professional

Colorado Avalanche

Off Limits

Dumbo and dumber

Driven by a Dad-Lad Bond

The Unsers honor Father's Day with their shared passion for auto racing.

Avs Lead the Parade

Despite a time-out for terror, 2001's roster was full.

Best Place to Watch Drug Deals on Your Lunch Hour

Civic Center Park

Best Av

Joe Sakic

A Gumper Stumper

So you think you know hockey, eh? Here's a quiz to see if you Av half a brain.

Backwash

Local musicians learn to play ball in a town that prefers sports to songs.

Best Coach -- Professional

Tony Granato
Colorado Avalanche

Best Sports Team -- Professional

Colorado Avalanche

At last, the Avs give Mike Haynes something to scream about

Mike Haynes, as seen in a 2004 photo by Brett Amole. Among the more distressing things about the Colorado Avalanche's mediocre season to date -- the team's currently last in the Northwest Division, a whopping 18 points beyond first-place Calgary -- is the precipitous decline in Altitude TV broadcas ... More >>

Look Out!

Losing two superstars would trigger an Avalanche slide.

Denver Blogs: A green Aspen?

Photo courtest of Flickr.Can Aspen go green?Our daily slosh through the blogosphere. Send links here. Aspen: Where the beer flows like wine, and where they swear they're going green. (Colorado Independent) The Avs do their best Rockies' impression, shop Ryan Smyth. (Avs Talk) Colorado gets the sh ... More >>

Best Sports Team -- Professional

Colorado Avalanche

Best Happy (Hockey) Ending on TV

Classic Avalanche games on Altitude

New Avs coach Joe Sacco's starpower deficit

New Colorado Avalanche coach Joe Sacco in an image from the Avs' website. The Colorado Avalanche didn't wait long after the sacking of beleaguered good-guy coach Tony Granato to name his replacement. Yesterday, the team introduced new head man Joe Sacco, who most recently helmed the Lake Erie Monst ... More >>

As sad season ends, Colorado Avalanche fall off fan radar

A Flickr photoAvs coach Tony Granato looking unhappy. The Colorado Avalanche ended their 2008-2009 season in appropriate fashion, winding up on the short end of a 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues -- and a sidebar about the game by Denver Post hockey scribe Adrian Dater is freighted with symbolism ab ... More >>

Colorado Avalanche's Pierre Lacroix finds a scapegoat in GM Francois Giguere

A Flickr photoDarcy Tucker, big buck-er. As noted in a blog yesterday, the end of a pathetic season by the Colorado Avalanche prompted a collective yawn by most mainstream sports fans -- a reaction that should worry Avs management. However, the person most likely to be punished for the team's perfo ... More >>

Head to Head

Fox Sports Net wants to beat local TV stations at their own game.

Day-by-Day Picks

From the week of September 29, 2005

Chad VanGaalen

Friday, September 9, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

The Message

Pucked Up

Ice Follies

Fans chill as pro hockey pucks up.

Northern Exposure

Canada's Sam Roberts is determined to rock the Lower 48.

The Message

Stan's Plan

Westword Music Showcase 2004

Fifty bands. Ten stages. Five bucks. Be there.

The Message

On the Mike

Cross-Dress for Success

To Bill, with love

Year in Review: Pop Quiz

Consider this your final exam on the past year. Cheating is encouraged, bribes will be accepted -- and grades will be posted at City Hall.

Equal Time

Girls are no longer iced out of competitive hockey.

Paging Lord Stanley

The rejuvenated Avs look like the real thing in the Pepsi Center.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The rejuvenated Avs look like the real thing in the Pepsi Center.

Star-Spangled Bad Boy

Jake Schroeder raises a flag for Opie Gone Bad.

Moments of Glory

The most important events in Denver sporting history.

Do former Avs coaches hold key to Patrick Roy's return?

Patrick Roy. The Colorado Avs managed to work their way back onto the first pages of sports sections in recent days by leaking info about a meeting between legendary goalie Patrick Roy and Avs president Pierre Lacroix, presumably spurred by the open general manager position -- and the excitement th ... More >>

Avs might pass on number three pick? Get the hell outta here....

Matt Duchene. Last night, the Nuggets scored big in the NBA draft, landing North Carolina guard Ty Lawson without giving away a key player. But now comes word, from Denver Post hockey expert Adrian Dater, that the Colorado Avalanche, which has the number three pick in tonight's NHL draft, might shr ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Is it John Hickenlooper or John Hickenritter?

"This is my coy smile. Like it?"​Despite what Craig Ferguson says, reading Denver blogs won't make you poop funny. Colorado Pols sees plenty of signs that John Hickenlooper will soon launch a bid for Colorado's governorship -- including Republican boss Dick Wadhams dubbing him "Hickenritter." ... More >>