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 Limbo" -- he's been among sports bloggers' favorite things to hate, right up there with the BCS, women's sports and everything.The piling on continues this week on Slate (via Deadspin), where Josh Levin
Chairlift Does You Inspire You Columbia Records Though it's no fun to watch talented Colorado musicians leave our fair state for glimmering destinations like Portland or Brooklyn, it is fun to watch them succeed. Such is the case for Boulder-founded synth poppers, Chairlift. Shortly after lighting off for the hipster Disneyland of Brooklyn, Caroline Polacheck, Aaron Pfenning and Patrick Wimberly had a song licensed for an iPod commercial and caught the attention of Columbia Records. Does You
