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The Broncos’ 30-20 loss to the Oakland Raiders on Sunday Night Football wasn’t nearly as close as the score indicates. The Raiders dominated the contest from start to finish, and Denver’s shortcomings were evident in all phases of the game. Quarterback Trevor Siemian started slowly and proved singularly unable to inspire…

While some trappings of early ski season are already upon us – Arapahoe Basin has been open since October 21, several Colorado ski areas saw a few inches of natural snow this week and the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo opens on Friday at the Colorado Convention Center – you…

Two weeks ago, your Denver Broncos turned in a so pathetic a performance against the San Diego Chargers that fans on Twitter were ready to throw young quarterback Trevor Siemian under the nearest road grader. But it was a different story after yesterday’s 27-19 Denver win — a revenge game…

After the Broncos schooled former Denver quarterback Brock Osweiler by way of a 27-9 beatdown of his new team, the Houston Texans, on the October 24 edition of Monday Night Football, Twitter exploded with derision over the signal-caller’s flamboyant mediocrity, epitomized by what may be the first perfect-spiral fumble in NFL history…

I’m not proud of it, but I have to admit: I’ve never wished more professional ill on a football player than I do on Brock Osweiler. Although Osweiler was erratic during his fill-in stints under center in Denver last year, the supposed heir apparent as Broncos quarterback did well enough to…

When you think of Denver’s most nationally competitive sports team, the Super Bowl-winning Broncos probably come to mind (or perhaps not during these last couple of weeks). But in any case, you’d be wrong. That distinction belongs to the Denver Lady Bulldogs. Since 2010, the Lady Bulldogs have won six…

What a difference five days make. On Sunday, following the Broncos’ lackluster loss to the Atlanta Falcons, Denver fans took to Twitter to declare that rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch sucked. Now, plenty of those same Broncos loyalists are looking at Lynch more positively — but only because Trevor Siemian, who…

The headline of our first post about Paxton Lynch, the Broncos’ number one draft pick this past April, reads, “Meet Paxton Lynch: Broncos’ Star QB of the Future or the Next Tim Tebow?” Yesterday, during his first start — a desultory 23-16 home loss to the Atlanta Falcons that wasn’t…

Over 30,000 elementary-school-aged kids in Colorado took advantage of Vail Resorts’ free Epic Schoolkids Colorado Pack offer in its first year, during the 2015-16 ski and snowboard season, and Keystone Resort spokesman Russell Carlton says the company is aiming to far surpass that number before the October 9 registration deadline…

One significant contributor to the Denver Broncos’s Super Bowl-winning 2015-2016 season had previously announced that he wouldn’t be joining the squad for its visit to the White House, scheduled to take place today: former fill-in quarterback Brock Osweiler, who jumped to the Houston Texans during the off-season. Now, however, another…

The most telling aspect of the response to news of Walt Weiss’s resignation as Colorado Rockies manager after three years on the job? How measured most of it was. On social media, a platform made for impassioned reactions (and overreactions), most of those who bothered to weigh in did so…

During the first three weeks of the 2016 NFL season, fans of the teams beaten by your Denver Broncos have complained about being screwed by officiating, bad luck and plenty of other earthly factors. After the Broncos’ 27-7 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers yesterday, however, Bucs lovers griped to…

Arnold Palmer’s death at age 87 has prompted plenty of memories about the golfing legend, who helped bring the game into the modern age through his combination of tremendous skill, aggressive play and a media savvy that today’s athletes emulate whether they realize it or not. But of his 62…

Three games in, the 2016-2017 Denver Broncos season is all about victories that leave fans of the defeated team pissed-off and fuming. And we couldn’t be happier. Yesterday, the Broncos bested the Cincinnati Bengals by a score of 29-17, with Denver QB Trevor Siemian having his best game as a…

Peyton Manning will go down in history as one of the greatest Broncos quarterbacks, perhaps second only to John Elway himself. But the trouble is that we have to share him — with his original team, the Colts; with most of Indiana, which still loves him like a prodigal son;…

Through two weeks, the Denver Broncos’ season has been marked by victories and the broken hearts of opponents’ fans. Game one found Denver duplicating its Super Bowl win over the Carolina Panthers in a manner that left Cam Newton loyalists feeling thoroughly pissed off. And a similar shudder of despair went…

Broncos star Von Miller just launched his latest ad — this one a spot for Old Spice, which was probably funnier in concept than in execution and is unlikely to become a pop-culture classic. (Sorry, Von.) But that got us to thinking. There have actually been a lot of NFL…

When Colin Kaepernick takes a knee during the national anthem tonight, before the 49ers play the Rams in San Francisco, it will be the quarterback’s first such protest during the regular season. Since last month, Kaepernick’s stance against oppression and inequality has both empowered and outraged Americans over what constitutes…

Okay, admit it: You hoped your Denver Broncos would win last night’s NFL season-opening Super Bowl rematch with the Carolina Panthers, but you didn’t really think it would happen. And who could blame you? After all, Denver’s starting quarterback was Trevor Siemian, a seventh-round pick from Northwestern (a school I…

The Denver Broncos have been riding high since they won Super Bowl 50 back on February 7 of this year…but today, when the team kicks off the NFL season against Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers, it’s time to get back to work toward Superbowl 51. (Or will we go…

A few weeks back, Denver Post subscribers were flabbergasted when sports columnist Woody Paige left the paper after thirty years of covering local teams — most notably (and most frequently) the Denver Broncos, who kick off the NFL season and their defense of their championship tonight in a nationally televised…