On Saturday night, the Colorado Avs went from death’s door to the driver’s seat in their playoff series with the Minnesota Wild, scoring in the last two minutes of the third period to force overtime, with super-teen Nathan McKinnon putting the biscuit in the basket a short time into the…
It’s been a while since the Colorado Avalanche truly captured the imagination of sports fans around our fair state. So, with the Avs up 2-0 against the Minnesota Wild in their first-round playoff series and game three slated for tonight, it’s time for those who haven’t been paying close attention…
For baseball fans, April is one of the sweetest times of the year: It signifies beer and sunshine and hot dogs, renewed hope and the pop of a ball in a leather glove. But for anyone who lives or works or has business in LoDo, baseball season — and especially…
Friday was opening day for the Rockies, which meant LoDo was decked out in purple to celebrate baseball’s return — and the Rockies rewarded fans with a victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Photographer Scott Lentz captured the jubilation of the Rockies’ first home win of 2014 with shots of the…
Even as the national media has tried to establish a tie between marijuana and the rise in applications submitted to Colorado colleges, Chane Behanan, a Louisville basketball star kicked off the squad last year because of drug use, recently transferred to Colorado State University. But before he could take his…
On Sunday, season two of Eric and Jessie: Game On premiered on E!, and although we know how the story of Eric Decker’s free agency ends (the onetime Broncos receiver signed with the New York Jets) , the show picks up while he is still here in Denver, with a…
This past weekend, Mile High Stadium was filled with cheerleaders auditioning for one of the coveted spots on the Broncos’ cheerleading squad. All the applicants had to be at least 21 years of age. There were three rounds of tryouts, with preliminary and semi-final auditions taking place on Sunday. The…
Just as the Broncos are readying for next season by stocking up on free agents, the Broncos cheerleaders are preparing for annual tryouts, in order to determine who’ll be on the sidelines when the action kicks off again. Auditions begin on March 30, but 9 a.m. tomorrow at Sports Authority…
Receiver Eric Decker has reportedly signed a five-year, $36.25 million contract to play for the New York Jets. That means the Broncos will be without his services on the field, and Denver fans will be weaned of off-the-field glamour shots of Decker and wife/country singer Jessie James, generally regarded as…
The Broncos have released cornerback Champ Bailey. It was a move the team had to make: Bailey was hurt most of last year, and when he wasn’t, he was a shadow of his formerly great self — plus, the decision saved the squad $10 million. And yet, there’s no joy…
Denver Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson is taking his shirt off for animals. That is, he’s starring in a new ad for PETA in which he declares that he chooses ink (tattoos, of which he has many — including one of himself) and not mink (basically, weasel fur). “I’d rather…
Local football fans were heartsick after the Broncos were thrashed by Seattle in this year’s Super Bowl. But are they so distraught that they’d eagerly welcome Tim Tebow back to Denver? That’s a prospect being floated by folks from the A-11 Football League, which is teasing a possible Denver franchise…
Former Denver Bronco Shannon Sharpe has been shown the door at NFL Today, the CBS Sunday studio show where he’s been a mainstay for a decade. Ex-Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino has also been bounced, but only one person — newly retired tight-end and record setter Tony Gonzalez — has…
More than a week after the Broncos’ Super Bowl loss to Seattle, plenty of fans are still sensitive to the size and scope of the defeat. An example? At this writing, one of the five most viewed posts on the Colorado Springs Gazette website is an article from Las Vegas…
While Cyler Miles, one of the most highly recruited prep athletes from Colorado in recent years, may be enrolled at the University of Washington, he remains a Broncos fan. However, his apparent dismay over the team’s humiliating Super Bowl loss to Seattle may have put his UW career at risk…
What is it with Olympics-caliber skiers from Vail and knee injuries? Mere weeks after Lindsey Vonn announced that a knee injury would prevent her from competing at the Sochi games, whose opening ceremony takes place tomorrow, Heidi Kloser, a moguls skier who was thought to have a good chance for…
Most Broncos fans we know are trying to forget the Super Bowl massacre by the Seahawks. But Denver mayor Michael Hancock is insisting upon reminding us. Despite the brutality of the loss, the city has produced an official video salute to the team and is encouraging the citizenry to sign…
The Super (Sucky) Bowl was hellish for most of Denver (and for anyone else who watched, nationwide; it was ranked as the sixth-least-watchable big game in history by Deadspin), but it was even more so for Doomsday theorist and evangelist William Tapley, seen here. Tapley first worked his way into…
After the Broncos’ humiliating defeat in the Super Bowl, a lot of us fans felt an apology was in order — and plenty of Twitter-using Denver players agreed. At this writing, none of our five most memorable Broncos on Twitter have weighed in, disappointingly enough. But a slew of other…
It’s been a great season for the Broncos, but it ended in an extremely ugly way. Denver was crushed by the Seahawks in a 43-8 Super Bowl loss that will take longtime fans back to the worst big-game blow-outs of the past. This photo of Peyton Manning from the broadcast…
Between winning the AFC Championship and preparing for a baby, Eric Decker took some time to star in a humorous new video promoting AXE Hair gel leading up to the Super Bowl. In the clip, on view below, he proclaims that he “wasn’t always the specimen you see before you.”…
Earlier this month, we told you about how local strip club employees banded together to raise awareness about sex trafficking in advance of the Broncos-Chargers playoffs game in Denver. Their reasoning? Sporting events attract forced prostitution. But is this true? That weekend, Denver police reported just one prostitution-related arrest –…
