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Although the braintrust of your Denver Broncos insists that it seeks out footballers of high moral character, the team has experienced fifty player arrests since the year 2000, more than any other NFL franchise during that period. But cornerback and punt returner Adam “Pacman” Jones, just signed by the squad, makes other previous offenders seem like pikers by comparison, as is proven by the following list of thirteen arrests, suspensions and more over the course of the past fifteen years.

How can a preseason game be meaningless and consequential at the same time? That question was answered during the Denver Broncos-Chicago Bears square-off on Saturday, August 18, thanks to quarterback Paxton Lynch and the explosion of frustration from Twitter Nation that greeted his miserable and embarrassing performance.

In March, Denver Broncos defensive lineman Adam Gotsis was busted on a rape charge out of Georgia, casting a shadow over his professional football career and making the Broncos the NFL team with the most arrests since 2000. Now, however, Gotsis is in the clear after prosecutors announced that they were dropping the matter.

Although I’ve been a lifelong fan of the Denver Broncos, I’ve never before attended the team’s training camp, which is free and open to the public. I experienced my first time on Sunday, July 29, and I never could have guessed how good it would feel.

Denver is vying for a chance to host games in the 2026 World Cup. Will it succeed?

Denver is mourning the loss and remembering the life of Reese Grant-Cobb, a star football player at East High School.

There’s a new and extremely sad twist regarding the Bowlen family fight for control of the Denver Broncos. Annabel Bowlen, wife of Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, has announced that she is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the same malady that caused her husband to give up formal control of the franchise in 2014. Pat’s diagnosis ultimately sparked a battle among his children over who’ll carry the Broncos into the future.

The original Dynasty has nothing on the Mile High City soap opera starring the children of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen. But daughter Beth Bowlen Wallace’s self-nomination as heir apparent to oversee the team isn’t campy and entertaining but unseemly and sad, since Pat is being treated like he’s dead even though he’s not.

The #MeToo movement has exposed patterns of sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry, schools and political arenas across the nation. Now an effort is under way to determine the severity of the issue in the world of climbing. A coalition of researchers and organizations, including the Alpinist and…

It’s tempting to call the Denver Broncos’ pickup of North Carolina State defensive lineman Bradley Chubb with the number-five pick in the 2018 NFL Draft as an example of dumb luck, and in a way, it was. But it’s more appropriate to say Chubb wound up in orange and blue thanks to the actions of idiots. And those idiots are the people who run the Cleveland Browns.

The Denver Broncos have made plenty of disappointing first-round draft choices over their history, as we documented in a 2016 list of their ten worst. But just two years later, we have to update the roster to accommodate a bust who’s put arguably the largest stain on John Elway’s legacy as an executive to date.

We’d like to nominate the Denver Broncos’ game presentation and marketing department for a genius grant after staffers came up with one of the great ideas of all-time: announcing the team’s fourth and fifth round picks for the 2018 NFL draft, slated to take place on Saturday, April 28, live from Casa Bonita, the world’s weirdest Mexican restaurant, complete with participation by cast members such as cliff divers and a costumed gorilla. And it turns out that South Park’s famous, Cartman-centric Casa Bonita episode helped inspire the event, which will be open to the public and is likely to make cameo appearances on the NFL Network’s draft coverage.

The Cubs-Rockies series is under way, filling downtown Denver with the worst fans around.

It’s early April, and everyone in Denver knows what that means: Opening Day. That fabled day comes on Friday, April 6, at 2:10 p.m. The Rockies will host the Atlanta Braves, and try to start a home season that rivals the legendary run of 2007, when the Rockies hit every green light on a street-race to the World Series.

The Denver Post isn’t only losing thirty newsroom staffers via layoffs dictated by it’s “vulture” hedge fund owner, Alden Global Capital. The broadsheet is also bidding farewell to Nicki Jhabvala, Nick Kosmider and Nick Groke, three prominent sportswriters and Denver Broncos specialists who are leaping to The Athletic, a rapidly growing online sports website whose apparent interest in wiping out daily newspapers Jhabvala chastised in a tweet sent out mere months ago.

Shortly before news broke last night that the Denver Broncos plan to sign free agent quarterback Case Keenum, the team was forced to respond to a much unhappier development: the arrest of defensive lineman Adam Gotsis for an alleged rape back to 2013. It’s one of the most serious charges this century against a member of the Broncos, a team with more arrests than any other NFL squad since the year 2000. See the documentation below.

At the highly unusual time of 11:10 p.m. on Monday, March 12, news broke that the Denver Broncos plan to ink Minnesota Vikings quarterback Case Keenum on Wednesday, March 14, when the free agency period is set to begin. As such, Keenum, the most prominent Broncos signing since Peyton Manning six years ago this month, will be charged with returning the squad to glory after an utterly pathetic 5-11 season. Unlike Manning, however, Keenum’s résumé to date is thin and the jury is still out as to whether he’ll be a top-tier NFL quarterback or a journeyman who managed to parlay a single good season into a giant payday.

In the first few days after the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, we shared a post headlined “Colorado’s Won More 2018 Winter Olympic Medals Than 81 Countries” to celebrate the achievements of the state’s first two medalists, snowboarders Red Gerard and Arielle Gold. In the days that followed, plenty of other athletes from these parts competed in various disciplines, and while critics expressed disappointment with the performance of the U.S. Olympic team overall, Coloradans still managed to collect ten medals, more than 78 of the nations that took part.

Last night, Arielle Gold, who we introduced you to in our post about Colorado women taking part in the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, earned a bronze medal in snowboarding, sharing the podium with gold medalist/instant superstar Chloe Kim. She’s the second Coloradan to medal in the games thus far, following Red Gerard, highlighted in our Colorado men at the 2018 Winter Olympics roundup, who took the gold in snowboard slopestyle. At this writing, if Colorado was a country, it would have won more medals than 81 of 93 countries, territories or entities taking part in the competition.

To mark the Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Games in PyeongChang, we imagine what it might be like in eight or twelve years, when Denver could have a similar event of our own.

The opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics got under way today, Friday, February 9, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Colorado is definitely present and accounted for. As we noted in a previous post, eleven women members of the U.S. Olympics team currently live in the state, with many of them having been born here. And Colorado men are even more heavily represented. Twenty have ties to our fair state. Meet all of them here.

The 2018 Winter Olympics get underway on Friday, February 9, in PyeongChang, South Korea, and to put it mildly, Colorado sportswomen will be very well represented. Eleven members of the U.S. Olympics team currently live in the state, and many of them were born here. Moreover, this group includes Lindsey Vonn, among the biggest names on the squad, and Mikaela Shiffrin, who’s already a superstar of her sport but seems ready to take her fame to the next level. Meet all of them here.