Jake Smith is nonchalant about being a ninja. “It’s just an obstacle course,” he says of the gauntlet of athletic feats featured on the television show American Ninja Warrior. “The ninja part is just the romanticizing bit of it.” The 24-year-old parkour badass is selling himself short. Smith and six…
The debate over whether the Denver Nuggets should make retaining the services of JaVale McGee a priority is already raging. Our view: Hell yes, since he’s highly entertaining on court whether he’s putting up big numbers or making a moron of himself. And after the whistle blows, he’s pretty damn…
Early in the fourth quarter of game seven against the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday night, your Denver Nuggets held a four point lead over a team with two Hall of Famers on it. That moment showed the peak of the Nuggets’ season and potential. The Lakers went on to win…
Despite a feverish comeback try, the Nuggets fell to the Lakers 96-87 on Saturday, ending Denver’s dreams of an improbable playoffs upset. Immediately afterward, the wits at the NBA Memes Facebook page weighed in, needling the Lakers even in victory (they’ll be losing in the second round to OKC –…
Update: After news broke yesterday that Chris “Birdman” Andersen’s Larkspur home had been searched in relation to a child-porn investigation, we’ve heard from authorities, but not from representatives of the inquiry’s target. Now, however, Andersen’s attorney has stepped forward, asserting that his client is the target of an extortion attempt…
Tim Tebow may have said yesterday that he’s changed his dog’s name from Bronco to Bronx now that he is a New York Jet. But it’s not as if the Broncos hadn’t dissed Tebow first. According to the team’s web site, the Broncos have reassigned Tebow’s famous number — the…
In the Nuggets’ clobbering of the Lakers last night, JaVale McGee scored just two points after notching 21 in the previous victory. Such is the enigma of McGee, who’s got great physical skills but is widely regarded to be a moron — the star of his own Deadspin feature who…
Arguably the most memorable moment of last night’s Nuggets-Lakers playoffs game saw ailing superstar Kobe Bryant fell rising rookie Kenneth Faried with a flagrant foul; see it and plenty of other video below. But this play was hardly symbolic of the contest as a whole. The Nugs, who once looked…
Maybe JaVale McGee had a bad experience with a game ball he received previously. Maybe the Nuggets’s big man saw a heckler in the stands he was trying to hit. Or more likely, there was something entirely different going on in the, uh, unique mind of McGee. Whatever the reason,…
No denying it: After the Nuggets lost game four of their playoffs series against the Lakers at home on Sunday night, I thought they were doomed to another 4-1 first-round exit — and I wasn’t the only one. But stunningly, Denver managed to beat L.A. 102-99 in what was expected…
Update: Savannah McMillan-Christmas, the woman who walked onto the court during Sunday’s Denver-L.A. playoff game, was originally reported to be a known stalker of Nuggets players. But as we wrote in an update on view below, this account has now been discredited — and Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson expresses…
Brian Xanders’ ouster as the Broncos’ general manager isn’t exactly a shock. After all, his association with the discredited Josh McDaniels regime made it surprising that he was able to hang on for as long as he did. Why did his luck finally run out?…
After the Lakers beat the Nuggets last night, much of the social media chatter focused on Savannah McMillan-Christmas, who wandered onto the court in the middle of the game. But there was also a Twitter eruption from Lakers fans celebrating the win in predictably irritating ways — like referring to…
Where there’s life, there’s hope — but the Denver Nuggets don’t have much of either right now. After making an energetic stand on Friday night to notch a 99-84 victory over the heavily favored L.A. Lakers at the Pepsi Center, the Nugs failed to build on this success, falling to…
Westword feature subject Jamie Moyer is baseball’s unlikeliest story. At 49, and coming off of major elbow surgery, he’s not only become the oldest player ever to win a game, he’s also managed to pitch well enough to be considered the Rockies’s ace, though that may say just as much…
Just as the Denver Nuggets are underdogs to the L.A. Lakers in their playoffs series, so, too, do the superstar Laker Girls seem to have the advantage over the hometown Nuggets Dancers. But how do these rival squads really match up? We’ve assembled the starting lineups (as well as the…
Every story about Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer, including our cover story this week by Caleb Hannan, prominently features the word “old.” But because, rightly or wrongly, that word can have a negative connotation in our society, we decided to focus for once on something young in relation to the 49-year-old…
The best reason to have Jamie Moyer in the Colorado Rockies clubhouse is that he’s a good pitcher with the team’s best earned-run average. The second best reason is that it means the Rockies hitters don’t have to face him. The subject of this week’s cover story, “For 49-year-old pitcher…
After the Nuggets’ desultory game one loss to the Lakers in their first-round playoffs matchup, there were legitimate questions about whether Denver even belonged in the same arena as Kobe Bryant and his L.A. crew. Game two was considerably less humiliating, with the Nugs making the Angelenos work a little…
After Peyton Manning signed with the Broncos, he posed with a jersey at his introductory press conference. But now, we’re finally getting a chance to see him wearing the orange, thanks to DirecTV images from an ad also featuring Deion Sanders and Peyton’s little bro, Eli — and most fans…
OMG, did you hear that ESPN’s NFL Draft gasbag Mel Kiper gave the Broncos draft class a C+? What will the organization do after receiving such a mediocre evaluation? Maybe John Elway and other executives will assess the players in training camp, attempt to improve their weaknesses and put them…
Last week, our Kyle Garratt assembled a list of five reasons why the Nuggets might upset the Lakers — but during Sunday’s humiliating 103-88 defeat in L.A., there appeared to be none. The Nugs’ desultory performance was epitomized by Ty Lawson’s awful game, but he was hardly the sole Denverite…
