Homer Duggins is Westword’s house gambling expert. Read his dispatches every Friday in the Latest Word sports section. Read last week’s blog here. It’s Raider Week. Oh yeah, it’s Raider Week! Normally I’d be fully engaged in my typical Raider Week traditions — painting my face blue and orange when…
Pitchers and catchers: Pitcher Jeff Francis winds up in a side-slit dress by Francis Roces and catcher Paul Phillips swings in a bridal gown by Rae Marie…..
I’ve been waiting for the deluded denizens at SF Weekly, our sister paper, to start crowing about the Rockies’ dispiriting performance over the past couple days, when they dropped two at home to the friggin’ San Diego Padres. (Note: From this point on, Franklin Morales’ pitch count should be one…
Another season, another Broncos-Raiders game, another five YouTube reminders that you shouldn’t make the trip to Oakland to root on your Broncos. 5. “I Will Kick Your Powder Blue Ass” Look below for more mayhem:…
Stitch and pitch: Happy hooker Greg Smith throws some curves in a cocktail dress by Tran Wills, while sinker-baller Greg Reynolds works the stitches of a power suit by Kotomi Yoshida……
Our daily hike up Blog Mountain. Is Aspen really as shitty as Ski Magazine things? (Huffington Post Denver) In case you were getting too optimistic, Pols tells us Colorado’s budget is hosed till 2011. (Colorado Pols) Welcome back Huston Street and Aaron Cook! But how welcome are they? (Purple Row)…
Timothy Chase McCartney bears a striking resemblance to his father. He’s bigger and has a stronger arm, but otherwise it’s “like seeing his ghost,” LSU football coach Les Miles tells ESPN.com in a story about McCartney and his late father, Sal Aunese. Miles should know. More than two decades before…
A baseball card collection featuring Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Shortstop Chris Nelson rocks a miniskirt by Haley Mariah, while pitcher Samuel Deduno covers the mound in an apron by Margo Cory…..
We’ve heard a whole lotta nothing from the Giants-loving trash-talkers at our sister paper, the SF Weekly, over the past couple of days. I expected an outburst yesterday, after the G-men bested lowly Arizona Monday to gain half a game on the idle Rockies. Probably one filled with more misinformation,…
With a possible referees’ strike looming over the 2009-2010 NBA season, the league is assembling a roster of potential replacement officials willing to cross picket lines in order to take whistle between teeth in prime time again. Among those listed is Michael Henderson, whose union went to extraordinary measures to…
Channel 9’s Drew Soicher devoted much of Tuesday night’s late sportscast to a conversation with John Elway about whether or not he was bothered by Nuggets star Chauncey Billups’ decision to ditch the number 7, which he wore last year to honor Big John, in favor of his original digit,…
All the hosannas about the Broncos’ improved defense are mondo premature due to the fact that the D gave up what should have been the winning score during crunch time at Cincinnati during week one and dominated an utterly inept Cleveland Browns squad on Sunday. And the next opponent? The…
I concluded the inaugural edition of Basebrawl, our stretch-run trash-talking faceoff with the Giants lovers at SF Weekly, one of Westword’s sister papers, with these lines: “The Giants begin a three-game series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles tonight, and this time Monday, the boys by the Bay will be…
The Denver Post’s front-page blurbs about the Broncos’ 27-6 victory over the Browns yesterday appear beneath the line “With a Capital D” — the point being that Denver’s defense stifled Cleveland throughout the afternoon. But that’s not particularly difficult. As commentators Bill Macatee and Steve Beuerlein noted during the broadcast,…
Hello, sports fans. My name is Homer Duggins and I’ve been a monster Denver devotee for, like, my whole life! When I was a kid, I totally asked my parents to paint my room blue and green for the Denver Zephyrs, and I wore black and gold to school every…
The world doesn’t hand us many absolutes. Don’t stare directly into the massive fireball in the sky. Make babies. Never buy fewer than eight Washington apples at one time. And, of course, if you happen to know enough about rocks to teach geology at a large institution of higher learning,…
No cities in America — okay, maybe Buffalo, but nowhere else — have achieved the same level of football-related pessimism as Denver and Cleveland. (OK, maybe Detroit, too, but that’s it!). So with the Broncos and Browns set to throw down on Sunday, I channeled all the dismay I could…
Earlier today, Westword’s sister paper, the San Francisco Weekly, published “Basebrawl — So Those Denver Boys Want to Talk Some Trash, Eh? Well, Two Can Play At That Game,” in which staffer Joe Eskenazi wrote about checking “the pneumatic tube connecting all the Village Voice Media newspapers” and finding “what…
When the Broncos began shopping Sweet Baby Jay Cutler earlier this year, one of his possible destinations was Cleveland, this weekend’s opponent, where he’d have been swapped for Brady Quinn. My twin high-school-age daughters, Lora and Ellie, weren’t very enthusiastic about that prospect from a football standpoint, since this particular…
Most Rockies fans see Ubaldo Jiminez as the blossoming star of the squad’s pitching staff. But Jiminez got absolutely shelled Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants, making last night’s series-ender against the SF crew the sort of must-win no one wanted to call a must-win — but it was…
Our daily round-up of local blogs. A Denver-born iPhone app is on fire. Literally! (Actually, figuratively!) (Denver Egotist) How Denver will rebound from the recession. (5280) The Broncos aren’t as bad as you think. According to this guy. We’ll see. (HuffPo Denver)…
So much for psychology. The Rockies were crushed 9-1 by the San Francisco Giants on Monday to begin an important three-game series — and I hoped the size and scope of the humiliation, coupled with the return of ace pitcher Ubaldo Jiminez to the mound, would result in a Colorado…
