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,…
When 20-year-old Leo Beitz visited an old friend in Boulder last weekend, they did what old friends do: Went out. Got drunk. Came home. Played video games. But at some point in the night, Beitz, for reasons that remain unclear, did some things old friends usually don’t do: Grabbed a…
If you happen to be a perpetually-stoned TV junkie who toggles between Idol and The Soup and enjoys the occasional Tank-from-Old-Scool-style streaking, tonight’s city council debate in Boulder is most definitely in your wheelhouse. As the Daily Camera reported this weekend, the debate, sponsored by New Era Colorado, will be…
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…
For months, dozens of motion-sensor cameras along I-70 between Golden and Glenwood Springs have been snatching nocturnal images of wildlife, in an effort to study how elk, deer, bears and other species negotiate the beastly interstate. The cameras, maintained by the Center for Native Ecosystems, Eco-Resolutions, Colorado Department of Transportation…
Other people in Colorado write blogs, too. Here are three of them. The Colorado Independent’s Kate Redding covers protests about the Obama administration’s expansion plans for the GEO Group’s Aurora Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center. That’s cold as ICE. Find tributes to the late radio host Russ Johnson, along…
As part of our search for a marijuana-dispensary critic, we asked applicants to write in and tell us what marijuana means to them. In the coming weeks, we’ll publish some of our favorites, including this one, from a guy not fond of the shift key…
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…
Denver Public Schools spokesman Michael Vaughn has come through with the names of more DPS facilities seeing big absences due to the flu, be it H1N1/swine flu or the seasonal variety, along with specific percentages. He’d previously mentioned Columbian Elementary School, at 2925 W. 40th Avenue: Attendance there is at…
The city’s offer to Republic Airways Holdings — an effort to keep as many Frontier Airlines jobs in Colorado as possible — doesn’t represent the final word on potential lures. “They’re in negotiations,” says Tom Clark, the Denver Economic Development Corporation’s executive director, “so that means there’s wiggle room.” Nonetheless,…
Any day that includes a trip to Wal-Mart is bound to suck, low-low prices notwithstanding. But when it ends with getting your ass kicked by a guy in a wheelchair and then a trip to jail, it’s time to change your lucky socks…
A hoax e-mail declared that the annual Columbus Day Parade had been canceled — which it won’t be even if the weather is miserable tomorrow according to Richard SaBell, the spectacle’s top organizer. As for demonstrations, which have been a regular feature of the event for years, SaBell noted that…
In today’s competitive economy, small businesses must offer more services to a wider range of consumers — and this Denver mechanic is providing customers with the best of both worlds. Storefront signage states that all makes and models of auto mechanic specialist services are offered to drivers, while “tabacco” products,…
Mason Tvert is brilliant at making any subject about marijuana — but he’s really outdone himself this time. In his latest media jeremiad, the head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation) goes after bicycle racer Lance Armstrong for becoming the new spokesman for Michelob Ultra, a brew that’s aimed…
Richard SaBell, president of the Denver Columbus Day Parade committee, wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He didn’t send out an e-mail this week to the Mayor’s Office and members of the media saying that the annual spectacle had been called off, even though his name was at the…
When I was a kid the most awesome place in the mall was the magic/novelty shop. In addition to the rubber poop and hypnosis books, there was always some quirky middle-aged guy behind the counter demonstrating magic tricks to a crowd of boys age seven to thirteen. Well, like everything…
Want to know why the police are congregating outside the house down the block? Chances are that if you wander down there and ask, they’ll just growl at you to head home and not to worry about it. But get online and ask Lieutenant Matthew Murray via Twitter. He says…
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…
Even after the Wacky Wednesday loss in game one of their playoff series against the Philllies, the Rockies still had a chance to regain home-field advantage — and they managed to do so with a little help from a pair of players obtained in the trade that sent Matt Holliday…
