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 –…
The City of Denver is celebrating the Broncos’ trip to the Super Bowl in plenty of unusual ways — like Governor John Hickenlooper temporarily renaming Colorado’s 14ers for Denver players. And tourism agency VISIT DENVER is no exception. The staff has come up with a list of things to do…
While tourist agencies in Denver and Seattle have gone out of their way to highlight things the communities have in common (other than legal pot, that is), this Sunday’s Super Bowl featuring the Broncos and Seahawks has still managed to ramp up competition between the cities. But which is better?…
Super Bowl media day is an opportunity for journalists of the world to make fools of themselves trying to get famous athletes to make fools of themselves — and as always, there were successes and failures on both sides. But what were the Broncos’ most memorable quotes? We picked the…
For a small market located in a flyover state, Denver and its football fans have made a big name for themselves since the Denver Broncos team was born in 1960. From the fans who stormed the field on New Year’s Day in 1978 to tear down the goal posts after…
Vail’s Lindsay Vonn announced that a knee injury would prevent her competing in the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. But Coloradans will still have plenty of rooting interest. The official total of participating athletes from our fair state is nineteen — among them highly touted skier Mikaela Shiffrin,…
In the run-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl, we’ve posted about some of the friction caused by the match-up between the Broncos and the Seahawks, including the firing of a Tacoma teen after he wore a Demaryius Thomas jersey to work and a Washington senator’s rude tweet about the Barrel Man…
For years, the National Football League has tried to build an audience for American-style professional pigskin to other countries — but a weird incident yesterday suggests there’s still quite a ways to go. Specifically, Rob Ford, the controversial mayor of Toronto, who reportedly admitted to probable crack-cocaine use “in one…
While there’s a lot in common between Denver and Seattle other than legal pot, tension remains between the cities owing to the Broncos-Seahawks match-up in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Witness the recent firing of a Washington teen after he wore a Demaryius Thomas jersey to work. Latest person to go too…
When people saw Seahawks star Richard Sherman’s crazed rant after Seattle’s victory over the 49ers on January 19, many probably wondered, “What is he on?” Turns out Sherman has been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, but his suspension was nixed on appeal. Plenty of his teammates haven’t been as lucky,…
