Subject: Woody Paige

• More Messages: Tooning Out

  December 6, 2006

• More Messages: Morning Woody

  December 4, 2006

• More Messages: Studio Time

  December 1, 2006

• More Messages: Woody Rumors

  October 11, 2006

• Making the Post List

  June 19, 2007

• Three Pages Woody Would Rather Forget

  July 2, 2007

• The Denver Post's Woody Paige at His Most Gag-Inducing

  August 20, 2007

• The Denver Post Invites Web Surfers to Visit Woody Paige's World

  September 10, 2007

• Woody Paige's Recommended Move for the Nuggets Is to... Bring Back Dan Issel?

  July 14, 2008

• Does Woody Paige's Broncos victory prediction prove he's on crack?

  September 29, 2008

• Good news, Woody Paige: Les Paul isn't dead yet

  It's always dangerous when sportswriters include music references in their columns. Such citations are typically moldy -- as, for instance, Rocky Mountain News staffer Bernie Lincicome's dopey mention of Loggins and Messina, who hailed from an era "when music was fun," he claimed in a December 7 piece. And all too often, they're misleading or wrong, too. Take Woody Paige's "Nuggets in Position to Stretch Win," from Sunday's Denver Post, which appeared following a Nugs victory over the New Orl

  January 7, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 7 edition

  Better late than never. Today in Backbeat Online: • Vintage Q&A with the late, great Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. • Mile High Makeout: Coming home. • A review of the Fray at the Gothic Theatre. • Baji wants to announce your calls. • Femi Kuti cancels Boulder Theater show. Today in Cafe Society: • Is it smart to like Subway? • Quiznos gets grilled in a Denver court. • The fighting Irish need to learn from the Italians. • The Berkshire is going bananas over Elvis. • Ridin

  January 7, 2009

• Broncos Country is not happy about Josh McDaniels. Broncos Country is wrong.

  What are people saying about the Broncos' new coach? Well ... Terrell Davis, the former Bronco and current NFL Network analyst, thinks McDaniels, at 32, is too young. The Mile High Report thinks he's too much like Belichick. Our own Michael Roberts thinks he's too offensive-minded. The Rocky's Dave Krieger thinks Pat Bowlen is trying to "recapture his glory days" by hiring an up-and-coming offensive coach like Mike Shanahan. ESPN's Skip Bayless -- a fucking cancer on sports journalism who I wat

  January 13, 2009

• What the hell? Woody Paige makes sense in column questioning new Broncos defensive coordinator Mike Nolan

  In recent years, sports columns by the Denver Post's Woody Paige read as if he simply spewed out the first thing that came to mind as opposed to actually thinking about a subject before writing about it -- a technique he burnished during his several years as a fulltimer at ESPN. (For more about that period, read the 2005 Message column "King Woody.") It was something of a shock, then, to peruse "First Hire Could Be Misfire," a piece that not only featured a strong point of view about newly chose

  January 14, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  March 7, 2002

• Colorado connections to this year's Super Bowl: few and far between

  The worsening of the economy over the past seven or eight months hasn't changed Denver Post editor Greg Moore's opinion about the importance of sending staffers to personally witness the most major of sporting spectacles. In the May 2008 Message column "Olympics Travel a Hurdle for Local News Media," he defended picking up the tab for reporters to cover certain stories in person, despite rapidly rising costs and the financial struggles of newspapering in general. "We've decided that there are

  January 28, 2009

• Rockies' lack of power becomes laughing matter

  Photo by Holly Harris The Bleacher Report piece "Colorado Rockies No. 1 In Denver Columnist's MLB Power Rankings" claims that the local ballers have sat Denver Post scribbler Woody Paige's roster all season, for reasons like these: "This team is showing a lot of determination this season," said Paige in the article. "Even during their three-game sweep last weekend at home, they proved that they won't let blowouts phase them. After losing to the Dodgers in those games by a combined score of 38-

  June 2, 2009

• Denver Blogs: When did the Broncos' running game die, and why didn't we notice?

  Courtesy of Flickr.Five years ago you could have stuck Woody Paige in the backfield and banked on five yards a carry. Now, not so much. We take daily cruises through the Colorogoshere, with stops at islands of coherence and insight. Suggest other stops here. What happened to the Broncos running game? (Mile High Report) The New York Times loves it some Ken Salazar. Which, as you can imagine, does not sit well with the folks at Face the State. (Face the State) You thought Bob Schaffer was drun

  February 12, 2009

• Best Hair on a Media Personality Gone National

  March 24, 2005

• Drunk of the Week

  August 18, 2005

• Hate State Sets New Record: 365 Days of Rage!

  January 1, 1998

• Watch the Fireworks!

  Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder as a public dispute goes pubic.

  July 5, 2001

• Olympics Travel a Hurdle for Local News Media

  May 8, 2008

• The Message

  Woody Rises

  July 31, 2003

• The Funnies Aren't Anymore

  A two-week binge on daily comic strips bored this columnist to tears.

  September 6, 2007

• Adrian Dater Flames ESPN

  June 28, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of 12/07/2006

  December 7, 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.

  November 30, 2006

• King Woody

  Woody Paige is in a New York state of mind.

  December 22, 2005

• The Message

  Saint John

  July 15, 2004

• A Dam in the Stream

  If Clear Channel can't afford Internet radio, who can?

  February 6, 2003

• Cyber Slams

  A local college student is on a one-man mission to attack lousy radio.

  October 17, 2002

• Getting Racked

  A local magazine says the city's news-box rules kick publications where it hurts.

  September 12, 2002

• Interpreting the Signals

  Does the sale of five major Denver radio stations mean big changes, or more of the same?

  February 28, 2002

• Woody Goes Limp

  Post columnist Woody Paige's big shtick shrinks in chilly Utah.

  February 21, 2002

• Out With the Old

  A Boulder daily's cost-cutting measures begin with older workers.

  June 7, 2001

• Payback

  Cabinet reject Linda Chavez is making the most of her public humiliation.

  February 8, 2001

• Off Limits

  April 29, 1999

• Off Limits

  July 23, 1998

• City of Hype

  Great moments in Bronco history--and hysteria.

  January 22, 1998

• Who are the tweetest of the Denver Post's Twitterers?

  Lots of news organizations, including this one, have embraced Twitter -- but few have done so with as much vigor (and volume) as the Denver Post. The broadsheet's Twitter page lists more than twenty feeds specific to the paper, with some contributed by departments or topics (e.g. crime news and politics) and others from specific individuals -- among them, business writer Andy Vuong and editorial writer Chuck Plunkett. But most of them are purely utilitarian, plugging articles and the like. Ind

  April 30, 2009

• A rested, birdie-making, film-studying Mike Shanahan is somewhat terrifying

  Shanahan, in less withered days.Woody Paige took time from his television foibles to chime in with a pretty decent column on Sunday, about the very fine life of former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan. Shanahan -- who talked with Paige at the celebrity golf tourney in Lake Tahoe -- has apparently been busy marrying off his daughter, moving into a new home in Cherry Hills, and playing enough golf to shoot a saucy little 83 in competition on Saturday. But since Shanahan is a half-cyborg powered by UV

  July 20, 2009

• Denver Post gives J.R. Smith a "C"

  J.R. Smith.​As June ended, Nuggets prodigy J.R. Smith was sentenced to thirty days in a New Jersey jail and 500 hours of community service in regard to a 2007 crash that killed his friend, Andre Bell. But shortly after doing his time, he headed to Las Vegas -- not exactly a location that bespeaks sincere regrets and lessons learned. Moreover, he's tweeted aplenty on his Twitter feed, jr_smith1, providing fodder for not one but two spankings in today's Denver Post. Throughout "It's Time for

  August 4, 2009

• Excuse us for that last Les Paul headline

  The late Les Paul.​Back in January, Denver Post columnist Woody Paige wrote that New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul "plays basketball like Les Paul played guitar" -- a sentence that implied the elder Paul, an ax pioneer, inventor and namesake of a Gibson electric guitar beloved by a legion of famous rockers, was no longer with us. The sentence prompted us to publish a snarky blog entitled "Good News, Woody Paige: Les Paul Isn't Dead Yet" -- a banner I'm regretting right now given that Pa

  August 13, 2009

• Woody Paige knows his Les Paul

  Photo by Brett AmoleWoody Paige in the Denver Post newsroom circa 2005.​Yesterday, I expressed regret for the January blog headline "Good News, Woody Paige: Les Paul Isn't Dead Yet" in light of the fact that Paul, a pioneering guitarist and inventor, had just passed away at age 94. Then, this morning, I received a note from Paige himself, stressing his Les Paul knowledge and letting me know that my original interpretation of a line he wrote saying that New Orleans Hornets star Chris Paul "

  August 14, 2009

• Kyle Orton should already get thrown under the bus? Wrong, Woody Paige

  Woody Paige has painted a target on Kyle Orton's back.​You had to know it'd happen about now -- and that Woody Paige would be the instigator. When the Broncos were 6-0, Kyle Orton was the toast of the town -- or at least no one was referring to him as toast, as fans had been doing before the season started. But now, after two consecutive losses, Paige has taken up the predictable bench-the-QB chant, arguing for Chris Simms to get the start against the Washington Redskins this weekend. Wh

  November 11, 2009

• Jay Cutler's five interceptions turn him into a national punchline

  This may be the uniform Jay Cutler will be wearing if he keeps playing like he did last night.​It was just last week that we were talking about how overrated Jay Cutler is. But even we never imagined that he'd offer up a performance as embarrassing as the one the nation saw last night in the Chicago Bears' 10-6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Sweet Baby Jay threw five interceptions, instantly transforming him from Chicago's great QB hope to a complete joke. Examples abounded during AllNi

  November 13, 2009

• Chris Simms should start at quarterback for the Broncos? Ha!

  If Chris Simms is the answer, he's the wrong answer. Heal, Kyle, heal!​Behold: The talent-evaluating acumen of one Woody Paige, Denver Post columnist and ESPN yukmeister, who last week called for backup Chris Simms to be given the starting quarterback job for the Broncos in place of Kyle Orton. Be careful what you wish for, Woody. Because what you got blew. Yesterday, Orton had a very strong first half against the Washington Redskins, going vertical twice with Brandon Marshall and consis

  November 16, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Woody Paige vs. Bronco Talk

  Photo by Brett AmoleWoody Paige has opinions -- and he isn't afraid to use them.​These are some Denver-centric blogs we enjoyed reading today. Bronco Talk's Kyle Montgomery notes that the Post's Woody Paige dismissed him as "some kid in Arizona who is a Broncos fan and writes a blog, without proper grammar or punctuation or understanding, from his mom's laundry room." Of course, Woody's the one who thought starting Chris Simms was a good idea... According to the Colorado Independent's J

  November 19, 2009

• Shmuck of the Week: Mark Kiszla, sports columnist extraordinaire

  ​You don't expect much from your daily-newspaper sports columnists these days. Sentences that make sense, some well-placed punctuation, maybe a bad pun or two. But while our expectations have been lowered over the years by the likes of Woody Paige and Skip Bayless and whoever else shows up in the corners of our sports pages, this effort by the Post's Mark Kiszla made Paige look downright sober. After the Broncos' lifeless loss to the Redskins on Sunday, Kiszla somehow came to the conclusi

  November 20, 2009