Sports talk shows and blogs blew up over the weekend after cameras spied New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez eating a hot dog on the sidelines during a TV time out. Some critics have said Sanchez, who apologized after the game for some reason, was showing up the pathetic Oakland…
When Broncos fans Googled new quarterback Kyle Orton this past spring, many of them were greeted with image after image of KO boozin’ it up and getting’ crazy with the ladies. He’s reportedly left those lifestyle extremes behind, or at least engages in them when there are no cameras present…
Last week, Fox Sports’ Tim Ryan insisted that Jay Cutler was worth everything the Chicago Bears gave the Denver Broncos to get him even though Cutler had only racked up a 3-2 record at that point this season, as opposed to a 6-0 mark for Kyle Orton, the QB the…
Okay, you and me, and most of the local media, and all of the national media — everyone, really, except this guy. We read his age, and we heard the lip-smacking and the no-commenting, and we saw all the former Patriots showing up in Dove Valley, and we decided: This…
Sorry, Kyle Orton. Even if the Broncos go undefeated this season, you probably still won’t get any respect from NFL media wise guys. Latest example: Fox Sports’ Tim Ryan, who was asked in a “5 Questions” piece if the Bears made the right move giving up so much to get…
A few months back, Jay Cutler’s Twitter feed was actually kinda entertaining — mostly because the person tweeting under Sweet Baby Jay’s name was an imposter. Now, however, Cutler has what appears to be a legit Twitter account, and he used it to confirm that he’s just signed a hefty…
As we all know, Chargers QB Philip Rivers is a dick. Even most of the people who like him would agree — and given the Broncos’ performances against SD over the past several years, his dickishness has been able to reign supreme. So even more satisfying than Denver’s 34-23 victory…
I know, I know: Philip Rivers is one of the most talented young quarterbacks in the NFL, blah blah blah. But he’s also a classless dick — the kind of dick Broncos fans would love to see caught in a zipper à la Little Ben (Stiller) in There’s Something About…
Yorvit Torrealba was definitely among the best performers during the Rockies’ all-too-brief 2009 playoff run, hitting well (e.g., that home run in game two) and playing consistent defense. So, of course, the team is going to let him leave. No, the Rockies haven’t announced that Torrealba will only be invited…
Recent news accounts from Eaton, Commerce City and Aurora, demonstrate that social behaviors and youth coaching practices are changing, and all will have a profound impact on the evolution of youth football… #1. For starters, the customary coin toss, used to determine which team will kick off, is being replaced…
I take second place to no one in Brandon Marshall bashing over the past six months or so — and I continue to feel it was entirely justified given allegations about bad behavior by former squeeze Rasheedah Watley, among many other things. Now, however, Broncos owner Pat Bowlen is talking…
So I was sitting in an A&W in Virginia on Sunday when I received a text from one of my daughters: The Broncos were tied with the Patriots in overtime. Because my cheap phone isn’t Internet-enabled, that meant my only chance of hearing the action was the radio in my…
The end of baseball season is always a sad day, no matter when or how it ends. It means, among other things, that Saturday-afternoon errands will no longer be buoyed by the baseball on the car radio; that excuses to drink $9 drafts and yell at grown men are limited…
On CBS last night, 60 Minutes added to the pile recent stories about brain damage being suffered by NFL football players. Among the story’s lead characters was former Colorado Buffalo Ted Johnson, who went on to star for the New England Patriots. Johnson’s post-career life has been marred by health…
Rick Upchurch was the best at what he did when he did it. But the former Denver Broncos return specialist isn’t in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Nor is he in the Broncos’ own Ring of Fame at Invesco Field. This fact was all the more glaring Sunday when…
I’m not generally in favor of so-called NFL “legacy” games, in which teams are required to wear their hideous and humiliating uniforms of yore and the fans are barraged with waves of schlock and nostalgia: old geezers from golden-age squads out on the field to get special plaques, commemorative programs,…
OK, so the excessive fist pumping in the exact location of 47 camera men was a little odd, but other than that, let’s see … – He traded a sore-losing, sore-winning, sour-faced quarterback for one who is calm (and even jovial) under pressure, rarely makes mistakes and has an awesome…
Homer Duggins is the biggest sports fan in Denver and Westword’s gambling, uh, “expert.” Read his dispatches every Friday in the Latest Word sports section. What’s that noise? It’s a little whisper I keep hearing, a whisper becoming louder and louder, blowing on the wind until it becomes a roar…
Cue the shameless self-promotion. Village Voice Media, of which Westword is a part, has put together a new website offering an alternative take on the current Major League Baseball playoffs — meaning some of the posts include words that Joe Buck would be fired for saying on the air (including…
Spike TV markets itself as television for dudes — horny dudes, presumably. No wonder the net has just-completed a search for the “Ultimate Spike Girl,” a babe who embodies every male fantasy and is willing to parade her assets around for fans of erections and hand lotion everywhere. And your…
We’ve done more than our fair share of ribbing QB Kyle Orton since he headed to Denver as part of a trade with the Bears for Jay Cutler. But despite the party-dude reputation KO garnered during his time in Chi-town, plenty of the Bears faithful still have a soft spot…
