This past Sunday, Colorado State University hosted a selection-show-watching party in hopeful anticipation of its basketball team being invited to the Big Dance — the NCAA basketball tournament known as March Madness. Instead, CSU was left on the bubble, prompting a great hue and cry among Rams supporters, who felt…
The Denver Nuggets were prominently featured on yesterday’s episode of Pardon the Interruption. But not for a happy reason. In his introduction to the program, Tony Kornheiser, co-host, with Michael Wilbon, of this longtime staple of ESPN (new home for Denver Post photo boss Tim Rasmussen, whose goodbye gift was a “FUCK…
Super Bowl Sunday might as well be a holiday, but March Madness is a celebration. Nothing in sports can beat the first two days of bracket season. And by the first two days, I mean the round of 64. All due respect to teams in play-in games, but they’re about…
One of the long-held claims about Major League Baseball is that fans of every team are filled with hope during Spring Training. Unfortunately, the Colorado Rockies, whose Spring Training schedule got underway this week, put the lie to this theory. Even though the team finally fired general manager Dan O’Dowd after…
Peyton Manning has reportedly agreed to take a $4 million pay cut to play for the Broncos this season. The ostensible reason is to free up more cash to pay free agents. But there’s no denying that Manning’s performance was significantly worse this past season as compared to the one before,…
When Brian Shaw was fired as head coach by the Denver Nuggets yesterday, the only surprise was that the team did so before the end of the season. After all, continuing to lose at this point might actually help the team get a better draft pick, and Shaw had gotten…
For the second time in 2015, a Colorado fighter has come up short in a high-profile national bout. First, it was Denver boxer Mike Alvarado, who fell to Brandon Rios shortly after being busted on a gun charge. Now, it’s Broomfield-native Cat Zingano, who lost to mixed-martial-arts superstar Ronda Rousey…
Earlier this month, we noted that Peyton Manning is better than Tom Brady — on Saturday Night Live. That’s one reason PFM was included among the galaxy of stars on SNL’s 40th anniversary special. The show debuted last night (it’s set for rebroadcast on Friday), and much as we love…
Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III was among the hottest NFL prospects in years when he married Boulder-raised Rebecca Liddicoat in Colorado in July 2013. Since then, he’s played poorly and been plagued by injuries — but his off-the-field life could hardly be better. On his 25th birthday, he announced via…
Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos stopped performing sometime in December, long before they fell flat on their faces during the playoffs. But the team’s cheerleaders kept on going. This week the squad is traveling to Hong Kong, where they’ll join several other performance groups from around the world as…
Was 2013 really that long ago? For the Denver Nuggets, it sure was. A little less than two years ago, this team was in the midst of a fifteen-game winning streak en route to a 38-3 home record. That’s a far cry from the low-hanging fruit the team is today…
Yeah, yeah, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady just won another Super Bowl, his fourth — and Broncos QB (still, we hope) Peyton Manning’s got just one. But Peyton has kicked the crap out of Tommy on Saturday Night Live — one reason why he’s been named as a guest…
The Broncos weren’t even in Super Bowl XLIX, which (unfortunately) pitted the defending champion Seattle Seahawks against the eventually victorious New England Patriots. But Denver was namechecked plenty of times during the broadcast, mostly in reference to how much better this year’s contest was than last year’s blow-out — and…
We recently dubbed the upcoming Super Bowl the Intoler-a-Bowl, because it includes the two teams most Broncos fans dislike the most: the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. But who among the Super Bowl participants is the most unlikable? Here are our ten picks, all of them available for…
Fremont Correctional Facility inmate and die-hard Dallas Cowboy fan Terry Hendrix is currently serving three different sentences ranging from five to 24 years — meaning he has a lot of time to stew over Dallas’s recent playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers. In fact, Hendrix was so upset about…
There’s still more than a week of hype to go before Super Bowl XLIX, and that means more blanket coverage of Deflategate (eeesh), as well as more pain for Denver fans who can’t decide which team they despise more — the Seattle Seahawks, who humiliated the Broncos in last year’s…
The reaction among members of Twitter Nation to the departure of John Fox as the Denver Broncos’ head coach was mighty mixed — and if anything, the team’s decision to hire Gary Kubiak, John Elway’s former backup, to take over is generating an even more varied reaction. Some tweeters are…
The frenzy to learn who will succeed John Fox as the next head coach of your Denver Broncos is getting crazier with each passing minute. As evidence, consider that yesterday afternoon, an SBNation post declared that prime hopeful Gary Kubiak — who’s gone from serving as John Elway’s backup QB…
At 4:05 Mountain Time on Wednesday, rock climber and Estes Park native Tommy Caldwell pulled himself up onto the top of Yosemite’s El Capitan, turned towards the cameras filming him from below, and raised his arms in victory. And like that, his seven-year-long quest to climb the Dawn Wall was…
News that the Denver Broncos and John Fox had parted company was immediately followed by speculation about who the team’s next head coach should be. But what about those who’ve filled the gig to date? Turns out there’ve been fourteen head coaches in Broncos history, and only five of them…
The Broncos’ latest dispiriting playoff defeat, this time at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts, was followed by two pieces of big news: the revelation that Peyton Manning had a quad tear, not a bruise, and the announcement that coach John Fox and the team are, in a carefully worded…
Denver boxer Mike Alvarado has a date in the ring on January 24, when he’s scheduled to face off against arch-rival Brandon Rios at the 1stBank Center. But first, he has another date: He is supposed to appear in Denver County Court at 1:30 p.m. on January 16, when he…
