ESPN’s Tony Korhneiser has branded the Colorado Rockies as a “fraud” even though the team is presently holding down first place in the National League West, due in part to the way the team choked in the World Series ten years ago. It’s an indication that the national media doesn’t believe in the squad, which has a history of hot starts and lousy finishes, despite indications that things may be different this year.
After Sports Authority went bankrupt, the Denver Broncos were officially granted naming rights to Mile High Stadium…which means the team can sell them again, and will probably do so soon, before the next season starts. But fans already know what they want the place to be called.
Over Memorial Day weekend police issued 17 citations to peddlers at Coors Field for allegedly violating city regulations.
Longtime Denver Post sports sportswriter Terry Frei has been disappeared from the paper following a tweet in which he announced that he was “very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend.” But while Frei’s ouster is embarrassing, the incident could also prove beneficial to the Post’s bottom line during a time of financial stress epitomized by its decision to move its newsroom out of Denver.
Tommy Caldwell, one of the world’s best rock climbers and a native of Estes Park, became a media sensation in January 2015 when he, along with climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson, became the first to complete a free climb of the Dawn Wall route on El Capitan in Yosemite. Caldwell had…
As the end of ski season creeps closer (though kept alive momentarily by recent storms), Arapahoe Basin is preparing to retire its colorful and dedicated gang of ski patrol volunteers. The volunteer ski patrol unit has been around since the ’40s and is an integral part of A-Basin’s culture. For Alan…
The Denver Broncos’ selection of Utah tackle Garett Bolles with the twentieth pick in last night’s NFL Draft is the squad’s riskiest first-round choice since Tim Tebow in 2010. Like Tebow, Bolles is getting great reviews as a person. But the notices are much more scattered when it comes to his skills as a player, especially one who’ll be able to contribute right away.
The deal is probably a boost for the prospects of the Colorado properties involved, particularly Winter Park.
Today, April 7, is the home opener for the Colorado Rockies, which means that downtown — and Coors Field — will be flooded with fans hungry for peanuts, Cracker Jacks, and a season that goes down a little more smoothly than those in the recent past. Right now, only the venue for the Rockies is really a sure thing, as the team just signed a deal to stay at the facility on Blake. Everything else is an open question. Will the pitching staff step up? Will the infield gel in the same way it did back in 2007? Will Bud Black lead the team down a better road? All excellent questions — that even Rockies players themselves might have.
ESPN is reporting that longtime Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, whom the Denver Broncos have been rumored to covet for months, has decided to retire from football after thirteen years in the NFL in order to pursue a broadcasting career.
Today, basketball fans across the country are gearing up for the start of the annual NCAA basketball tournament popularly known as March Madness. But according to a new survey, Mile High hoops fans are at an enormous disadvantage when it comes to experiencing and enjoying this annual sports ritual. According to the WalletHub report, Denver is the fourth worst large city for March Madness and ranks at 276 out of 291 total communities analyzed, barely ahead of Kennesaw, Georgia, Poughkeepsie, New York and Colorado Springs, which finished at 280.
Beneath the gorgeous and glamorous public image of Gabriella and Emmanuel Sanders roiled a marriage in deep trouble. This past October, Gabriella filed for divorce, and now, in court documents obtained by TMZ, she accuses Emmanuel of cheating on her multiple times, spending big on his conquests and lying to the Broncos about attending the birth of his child so that he could party instead of practice.
Sure, Tom Brady just won his fifth Super Bowl with the New England Patriots. But even though he’s now retired and can claim a mere two NFL titles, former Denver Broncos superstar Peyton Manning is still winning 2017 thanks to his starring role in a slew of hilarious commercials, including one delivered during last night’s edition of the hit ABC sitcom Modern Family for gazebos and sheds.
Yesterday, we shared disturbing new details about past sexual assault accusations made against new Denver Broncos head coach Vance Joseph, including an assertion by a woman who told police in 2004 that Joseph, then an assistant coach at the University of Colorado Boulder, had disrobed, climbed into her bed uninvited and pressed his erect penis against her. Our piece noted that Joseph had not yet publicly addressed the allegations, adding, “It will be interesting to see how much longer he’ll be able to remain silent.” Turns out Joseph’s silence on the topic lasted less than 24 hours longer. But rather than holding a press conference or speaking on video, Joseph chose an interview with the Denver Post’s Nicki Jhabvala. The result was a clever bit of spin control, albeit one that hardly lays the story to rest permanently.
In our coverage earlier this week of revelations about past sexual assault allegations against new Broncos coach Vance Joseph, which were originally made public as part of the investigation into the CU recruiting scandal, we noted that the team would apparently try to “ride out” the negative publicity that might result from the incident, which dated back to the period when Joseph served as an assistant coach for the Buffs.
The #KeepWade hashtag had little effect on the status on the Denver Broncos staff of defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, one of the main architects of the team’s victory in Super Bowl 50. Mere hours after former Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Vance Joseph was introduced at a press conference yesterday, reports confirmed suspicions that Phillips had been named DC of the Los Angeles Rams — a woeful franchise, but one with a defense capable of much better things. Whether the same will prove true of Denver’s D will be among the more intriguing story lines of the upcoming season.
Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is scheduled to interview today for the position of Denver Broncos head coach, but plenty of fans on Twitter hope he doesn’t get the job. Race has nothing to do with most of the objections, nor should it. Clearly, there aren’t nearly enough African-American…
Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has gone from publicly protesting alleged police brutality against African Americans to pointing a pistol at a simulated black gunman in a video shared by the Denver Police Department.
Be prepared. Take avalanche warnings seriously. Wear a helmet.
Sadly, Gary Kubiak has had his fill of the migraine-inducing job of coaching the Denver Broncos, and that means the team is beating the bushes for its fifth head coach in the past seven years.
With tourists heading for the hills, there are plenty of things that tick off the good people of Aspen. Vail’s been inundated, too, and in addition to hordes of skiers, this weekend the town will attract many New Year’s Eve revelers. Built strategically along I-70 (it’s no mistake that the only main roads going into and out of Vail are I-70 exits) in the not-so-distant past, Vail is like a Disney model of a ski town — only you can actually go there and ski. Still, despite the practiced and mandatory smiles of the employees who work the resort town (and probably have to live in other parts of Eagle County), there are somethings that ruffle the feathers of Vail residents. Let’s start with these eight.
After a dry fall, the mountains are now buried in snow, and all of Colorado’s resorts are open. In this year’s edition of the Edge, our snow-activities guide to Colorado mountains, we told you about what’s new at every major ski area, reaching out to experts for suggestions on how…
