A few years back, I was sitting with a friend in a duck blind. It was a slow day of hunting, and we were discussing the recently passed Colorado initiative outlawing the spring bear hunt. The new law also prohibited baiting while pursuing a bear — a good thing, I…
If you want to see the difference between a boys’ and a girls’ ice hockey game, stop by the Edge Ice Arena early on a Sunday morning. The building, part of the Foothills Recreation Complex southwest of Denver, is one of several erected in the metro area in recent years…
In 1995, Joe Arcese, an administrator for a large urban college, had an idea. Enrollment was flagging, and the school had such low visibility that many potential students never even applied, because they didn’t think it was a genuine academic institution. “Back in the mid-’90s, a lot of people thought…
When Joseph Paiva was arrested for breaking into a half-dozen neighborhood homes around his mother’s Aurora house and stealing TVs, stereos, jewelry, CDs, lapel pins, coins and other fencibles, his mother was shocked. But as the days passed and she thought more about it, she realized that, really, she was…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Denver-based Go Fast Sports & Beverage Company is bringing to Colorado the ultimate in extreme sporting competition: The Royal Gorge Go Fast Games, slated for October 3-5, 2003, at the 1,053-foot-high Royal Gorge Bridge west of Cañon City, Colorado. The Go Fast Games will showcase the cutting-edge…
Is it going too far to say that foosball saved Shelly Langley’s life? Possibly. But it would not be out of line to say that table soccer altered its trajectory — and certainly for the better. “I’m from a tiny town out on the Colorado Plains — Kit Carson –…
On September 14, Glen House raced to the top of Pikes Peak. Starting at 5 a.m. with a headlamp to light the way, the Colorado Springs physician finally reached the summit parking lot — 7,400 vertical feet and thirteen and a half miles later — just after 10 a.m. Hundreds…
Did Harvey ever intend to become a purveyor of elephant humor? He did not. But sometimes life throws you a curveball. So you make the best of your lot and try to get a laugh here or there. “What,” Harvey asks, “do you do with an elephant with four balls?”…
On a rainy Friday in late August, the Evergreen Cougars’ senior-level midget football team prepares for its final pre-season scrimmage. In eight days, the team is scheduled to open its season against the feared South Jeffco Gators, winners of last year’s coveted Carnation Bowl, and a feeling of uneasiness hangs…
It’s been a banner year for very tough guys. Rulon Gardner, the massive farm-boy grappler from Wyoming, has overcome frostbite in his big toe to wrestle again. Tyler Hamilton managed to finish fourth in the Tour de France — riding almost the entire race with a broken collarbone. And then,…
Although “pornography” and “obscenity” are often used interchangeably, there’s a crucial difference between the two words. The first (when it involves adults, at least) is legal; the second is not. But the vocabulary of sin can get garbled quickly when you’re talking about dirty pictures. Discussing obscenity back in 1964,…
In their interviews with several girls who’d worked for Jim Grady, police often seemed perplexed about what they were looking for. At times, the investigators also managed to convey — in not-so-subtle ways — that while the girls may not have felt exploited, they were. After their interviews, some models…
At 6:40 p.m. on April 5, 2002, a police task force made up of local and state law-enforcement agencies swarmed around a single-story cinderblock industrial building on South Federal Boulevard. While their actions — and cries of “Let’s go!” — were captured on film by news crews from two Denver…
Nancy Canning and her two daughters, Mallory and Erin, who have driven nine hours to Denver from Kansas City just for this event, wait in the vast expanse of parking lots that surround Invesco Field at Mile High. It’s early Sunday morning, and the highlight of the Canning family vacation…
It began, as so many historically significant ideas have, with a vision as grand as it was unique, a lot of sweat and hard work and, perhaps, plenty of hallucinogenic drugs. “Seventeen years ago,” recalls Byron Swezy nostalgically. “Dropping acid and riding mountain bikes. It started as a drug-induced mountain-bike…
When I was coming of political age, in the late 1970s, there were important decisions to be made. Learning what adults meant when they used complicated words like “filibuster” and “the Senate,” for example. And, of course, deciding which political party to join. After carefully researching the Democratic and Republican…
There’s a moment in his college career that senior Tom Preissing won’t forget. “It was one of the better feelings I’ve had in my life,” explains the captain of Colorado College’s highly ranked hockey team. “I can look back and say, ‘I did that.'” So, did this moment come when…
On a recent morning, former University of Colorado football coach Bill McCartney and Derek Hines stop by a new suburban course just north and west of Denver to play a little golf. Fortunately, they’re not playing together. Instead, they’re lined up on opposite ends of the driving range. This is…
Ask a baseball player why he plays, and he’ll tell you it’s because he loves the game, always has. Football players are usually driven by a passion for their sport, too. “When I stop enjoying the game,” the running back with aching knees will say, “I’ll know it’s time to…
“We are a sports, entertainment and culture company,” said Kroenke Executive Vice President David Ehrlich, who announced details of a ten-year contract. Kroenke Sports Enterprises also owns the Colorado Avalanche, the Denver Nuggets and the Pepsi Center. — from a story describing Kroenke’s recent deal with the Colorado Ballet, Rocky…
Every professional athlete and Fortune 500 assistant vice president with a million or two in chump change has a home gym tucked somewhere between the gourmet kitchen and home theater. So you figure a couple of U.S. record-holders for power-lifting would have a pretty sweet set of iron, too. And…
As is the case with so many sports stories, the end of this one is the least interesting part. Two months ago, Susan Yemm, who had managed the books for the Boulder Volleyball Club for the past couple of years, was arrested by Lafayette police and charged with embezzling from…
