Yesterday’s Super Bowl featured a few Colorado touches — Focus on the Family’s canny ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mom, as well as the sight of Broncos legend Floyd Little standing with fellow NFL Hall of Fame inductees during the opening coin toss. But for me, the biggest Broncos…
As a native Coloradan who grew up in Grand Junction, I began following the Denver Broncos in the 1960s, when watching them play was a frequently painful experience. Their level of ineptitude is symbolized by their record during that decade: 39-97-4. But beginning in 1967, running back Floyd Little, elected…
Around this time last week, we were ranting about the moronic decision by NBA coaches not to name the Nuggets’ Chauncey Billups to the All-Star team. Fortunately, that wrong has been righted. Billups was added to the unit by commissioner David Stern as a replacement for the injured Chris Paul…
Last month, a spokesman for the CU Buffs maintained that the well-documented turmoil swirling around the return of embattled Coach Dan Hawkins hadn’t really hurt recruiting. But with national signing day coming up on Wednesday, at least one indication of trouble has already surfaced: According to the Boulder Daily Camera,…
At yesterday’s Pro Bowl, Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall declared, “I love the city of Denver. I started there and would love to finish there.” That’s a far cry from what Marshall said after an October 2007 drunk-driving arrest. Back then, he proclaimed, “I hate Denver. I hope I get traded…
It was no surprise when Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups didn’t land on the NBA All-Star team based on fans’ votes. What he brings to the table doesn’t always lend itself to ESPN top-ten lists. But for the coaches not to make him a reserve is absolutely astonishing — a travesty…
If anything, the debate over a still-unseen Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad has only intensified as the week has gone on, with protesters appearing on shows such as The O’Reilly Factor and pro-life supporters attaching themselves to what they assume will be its sentiments. Focus on the Family…
Hey, bub. Wanna pick up some Denver blogs, cheap? Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company notes that J.R. Smith (who managed to dodge a threatened suspension) played hard and relatively smart when he first entered the Nuggets’ game against the Bobcats last night — but then missed seven three-pointers in a…
Why can’t the Nuggets have crises one at a time instead of in bunches? The latest: The day after Carmelo Anthony folded over his ankle late in an overtime victory against the New Orleans Hornets, coach George Karl is publicly talking about suspending J.R. Smith for sulking on the bench…
I like to imagine that all of our shmucks — every last one of them, from middle schoolers to the Mormon Madoff to the threesome from hell — are, upon earning the honor, rounded up and herded into one confined space, to trade stories of their shmuckdom and steal each…
Yes, it’s true. Chip, the University of Colorado at Boulder mascot, has earned top honors in the 2010 Universal Cheerleading Association’s mascot competition — making him a back-to-back national champ. Dan Hawkins sure as hell can’t say the same. The clip above served as Chip’s award-winning entry to the UCA…
Last week’s Denver Blogs headline “Josh McDaniels’s Coaches Getting the Hell Out of Dodge” is as timely as ever owing to the latest JD assistant to march out the door: defensive coordinator Mike Nolan. Unlike previous ship-abandoners Rick Dennison and Bobby Turner, who signed up with former colleagues/bosses in Houston…
Denver Nuggets backers have had to make do with less Jerry Schemmel than they’d like; the team’s longtime radio broadcaster has only been calling home games of late. But before long, Nugs fans will have to go cold turkey. Schemmel has accepted the job to serve as the radio voice…
What is it about Denver that makes its richest people want to keep their lips zipped? Phil Anschutz, the state’s wealthiest person, refuses to grant interviews despite personally owning newspapers and online info properties, not to mention theaters and sports venues. And Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and…
Sorry, Denver glitz junkies: Your dreams of a high-profile celebrity wedding packed with luminaries from the worlds of sports and entertainment will not come to pass — at least not as they apply to Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony and his longtime paramour, former MTV hostess and reality show maven La…
It wasn’t quite pop art, but close — and readers and viewers everywhere are chugging it down. This weekend, Channel 9 reported about bottles of Gatorade on local store shelves featuring a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife and the word “Unfaithful” — an art project pulled off by…
Watching the first round of the NFL playoffs this weekend, one thought kept flashing through my mind: Thank goodness the Broncos aren’t playing. Don’t get me wrong. As a Colorado native, Broncos fandom is part of my DNA, and after the team shocked me, and the rest of the football…
Once a year, I get to use Westword’s season tickets to watch a Nuggets game — and I was lucky enough to have drawn last night’s matchup against the Golden State Warriors, when Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony and Chris “Birdman” Andersen were all out with injuries. Don’t assume the word…
It’s semi-official: Mike Shanahan is the new head coach of the Washington Redskins. But while Shanny will certainly be making some nice bank, he must also deal with an enormous headache shaped exactly like Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, who, since acquiring the franchise in 1999, has made a habit of…
Former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post sportswriter Adam Schefter has gone onto bigger and better things, first on the NFL Network and now with ESPN, where his role on football broadcasts would only be more prominent if his name was Chris Berman. But because of his close connections to…
It’s hard to know what was more depressing yesterday as the once 6-0 Broncos lost to the lowly Kansas City Chiefs at home to finish the season 8-8: The sarcastic chants of “Throw it to Marshall” from fans who were angry that the Pro Bowl wide receiver had been benched…
Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, has been described as a “tour de force of executive douchery” — a meddler on par with the Oakland Raiders’ Al Davis, albeit one who tends to avoid wearing the sort of glasses usually sported by elderly women. Mike Shanahan, who lived the…
