If you’re searching for some optimism for the forthcoming Broncos season, look no further than the NFL manifesto posted today by ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons, wherein he picks the Broncos to be this season’s no-one-saw-this-coming surprise team. His take: Nobody believes in them because they lost Shanahan (24-24 since 2006) and…
Another day, another series of contradictory stories about perennial Shmuck of the Week Brandon Marshall. First, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Broncos were exploring a contract extension for Marshall mere days after his preseason suspension for acting like a two-year old in shoulder pads. Since then, numerous sources have…
Watching the Rockies’ 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds last night wasn’t as suspenseful as anticipated given the circumstances; the Reds had taken the lead late, only to surrender it to Seth Smith, who singled with the bases loaded in the ninth. After all, the Rocks absolutely own the Reds…
A blog last week headlined “Allen Iverson’s Advice to America’s Youth: ‘Don’t Try to be Like Allen Iverson'” featured an interview in which the former Nugget told ex-teammate Eric Snow that his desire for a championship outweighed considerations such as whether he’d start or come off the bench. Well, never…
Our daily round-up of local bloggage. If you don’t want to know what Bengals bloggers think about this week’s Broncos-Bengals game, then you need to kiss the baby. (Mile High Report) The future of Union Station, visualized. (Denver Egotist) Who are Denver’s biggest sports stiffs? Well, that’s up to you……
The Colorado Rockies’ 4-3 victory against the Cincinnati Reds yesterday, thanks to a timely solo shot by Ian Stewart, means the club has won five of the first six games during its ongoing homestand, thereby taking advantage of their extremely favorable September schedule’s first phase. But despite this excellent run,…
Last night, Colorado State University fans descended on downtown Fort Collins to celebrate the Rams’ out-of-the-blue 23-17 victory over the heavily favored CU Buffs in this year’s Rocky Mountain Showdown. But what began as a good time devolved into a bummer when cops used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd…
Well, this is all very confusing. First of all, this is just my second Sniagrab (“bargain spelled backwards!”) season in Denver, and it still baffles me. As far as I can gather, scores of people who really like to ski, and can afford to ski a lot, every year set…
Over the years, fan behavior at the annual CU-CSU matchup known as the Rocky Mountain Showdown has varied from exuberant to way too exuberant. With that in mind, the CU Police, who’ll be handling security at this year’s version, on Sunday at Folsom Field in Boulder, have released a document…
Something weird happened during the Broncos’ last preseason game, against the Super Bowl runner-up Arizona Cardinals: The team didn’t look terrible and actually won the game. As a result, the post-game thread on the Mile High Report blog has a less suicidal tone than has been typical in recent weeks,…
Fit-throwing, currently suspended Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall — our most recent Shmuck of the Week — is back in the news again, although not over accusations of slapping anyone around, surprisingly enough. Reports surfaced that the New York Jets want to see Marshall in green and white, if not quite…
Pat Bowlen is frequently referred to as one of the best owners in professional sports — at least in these parts. But in a recent item (dubbed “too short for a column:), he’s slapped around plenty by someone who’s observed the Broncos closely over the years: ESPN’s Rick Reilly, a…
With prodigy J.R. Smith suspended for the first seven games of the 2009-2010 season thanks to his guilty plea in a New Jersey crash that killed one of his friends (and for which Smith served jail time), the Nuggets could use some help at guard. And a prominent one’s available:…
I confess: I really wasn’t sure why the Colorado Rockies went to the trouble of picking Jason Giambi off the discard pile last month. But now I know — the lucky thong. The lucky gold thong, that is, which Giambi lets teammates wear to help them break out of a…
A baseball card collection featuring Colorado ‘s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Dexter Fowler is the first Frockie to hit a home run off in a perfect bridal gown by Janet White……
Coming in to the 2009 season, the Denver Broncos seemed set at the quarterback position. (Pause for peals of laughter.) Now, things are considerably more unsettled — sort of like passengers on the Titanic. As you may have heard, Jay Cutler is gone; Kyle Orton, the man traded from Chicago…
When the University of Colorado at Boulder insisted on staging this year’s “Rocky Mountain Showdown” with the Colorado State University Rams at Folsom Field — supposedly to guarantee that at least six games would take place at CU’s stadium this year — many observers feared the Buffs’ thirst for revenue…
Wish I hadn’t seen it coming, but I did. In a Friday blog, I wrote that there was a very real prospect of the Colorado Rockies getting swept by the San Francisco Giants following their two consecutive Coors Field losses against the Los Angeles Dodgers. And so it came to…
The Broncos’ 27-17 loss to the Chicago Bears last night didn’t start out so badly thanks to a crowd whose berserker rage fired up the defense throughout the first quarter. Once the throng’s energy level eased up, however, members of the Denver D suddenly remembered that they suck balls –…
We don’t like to repeat shmucks around here. There are plenty of multiple offenders, sure, but there’s lots of new blood every week, too, and this week was no different. We could have shmucked the kid who bashed in the DNC offices, if only for unleashing the right’s loony pack…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Hit-leader Garrett Atkins scores big in this Indian-inspired chiffon wrap skirt and asymmetrical cropped top made of silk brocade by Kandyce Hudson……
Poor Brandon Marshall. The Broncos didn’t renegotiate his contract and shower him with the millions he thinks he deserves, likely because of his iffy hip and a history of off-the-field incidents capable of making any woman in his vicinity scream in terror and sprint in the opposite direction. But instead…
