Peyton Manning and Missy Franklin are hoping to make a big hit and a big splash tonight on the annual ESPY Awards, hosted by ESPN. Both Colorado athletes are up for two different awards, and ESPN is letting fans vote on who should win until 7 p.m. (MST) tonight –…
Denver Broncos training camp — which is still free, and one of the best things that the team does for its fans — gets under way at Dove Valley on Thursday, July 25, with the first of sixteen practices that will be open to the public. And the players and…
Rocky, the Denver Nuggets mountain lion mascot, has put together quite a career over the 22 years that he has been thrilling basketball fans — sometimes providing their only thrill during the particularly lean years. Over that time, the supremely athletic gymnast has perfected his routine — from flirting with…
Kenneth Faried, the 2013 Best of Denver winner as Best Nugget, is getting even more exposure from another publication — ESPN The Magazine, which chose him as one of eight cover models for its annual “Body Issue,” in which ripped athletes pose nude in order to make the rest of…
Back in April, we shared the first team photo of the Denver Broncos 2013-2014 cheerleading team, plus goodbye messages from those leaving the squad. Now, however, we’ve got newly shared solo photos of each person on the 26-strong crew courtesy of the Denver Broncos Cheerleaders Facebook page. Meet the members,…
Given that we’re in a quiet period for NFL news, the DUI arrests for two Broncos executives — director of player personnel Matt Russell and director of pro personnel Tom Heckert — quickly became the league’s biggest story on ESPN and other sports outlets. Not that such incidents are highly…
The Denver Broncos sold out most of their remaining single-game tickets this week in an annual summertime tradition, but fans who head to Sports Authority Field may be in for a few rude surprises at the gate (and we’re not talking about Raiders fans). The team adopted a new security…
Just over a week ago, Broncos receiver Eric Decker and singer Jessie James, the consensus pick for the most gorgeous couple in Denver, tied the knot. And as you’d expect from a pair who will soon have their own reality-TV show on E!, they’ve both been Facebooking, Instagramming and tweeting…
The NBA season is over, with Chris “Birdman” Andersen winning a championship ring (and earning a tattoo-free bobblehead). But the Nuggets Dancers are already looking toward the next tip-off. A couple months after the Denver Broncos cheerleader tryouts, the squad gave high-spirited hopefuls a chance to earn a spot on…
Last night, the Miami Heat won game seven of the NBA finals. That means former Nugget Chris “Birdman” Andersen earned himself a championship ring — a remarkable turnaround for a man still under investigation a year after Internet Crimes Against Children personnel searched his Larkspur home — and a commemorative…
The National Football League term OTAs stands for “organized team activities” — and they’re supposed to be voluntary. Still, starting Broncos running back Willis McGahee’s decision to skip out on them earlier this year set tongues wagging about the prospect of him being punished for doing so. Lo and behold,…
Couldn’t resist sharing the way the Boston Herald’s page-one reaction to the New England Patriots signing Tim Tebow — with a photo of the Chosen One Tebowing in a Broncos uniform, accompanied by the headline, “GOOD GOD!” Whether Tebow will be as good is a totally different question — but…
After former Broncos quarterback/controversy lightning rod quarterback Tim Tebow was cut by the Jets in April, some pundits speculated that he would never catch on with another team. Wrong: Yesterday, word broke that he’ll sign with the New England Patriots, whose offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, drafted him in Denver (en…
In late April, onetime toast of Denver Tim Tebow found himself sans employment after being cut by the New York Jets — and since then, no other NFL team has given him a sniff. Fortunately, though, he’s got a career alternative: Controversial talk-show host Glenn Beck, who feels Tebow’s faith…
An Internet Crimes Against Children investigation of Chris “Birdman” Andersen is still open a year after investigators searched his Larkspur home. But that hasn’t stopped him from becoming an even bigger celebrity as a current member of the Miami Heat than he was in Denver — and expect the spotlight…
Last November, the subtitle to our post about the firing of CU-Boulder football coach Jon Embree posed the question, “A sacrifice by AD Mike Bohn to save his own job?” If so, the strategy didn’t work over the long haul. Bohn has now resigned as CU-Boulder’s athletic director in a…
Former Denver Nugget Chris Andersen, aka the Birdman, has been a major part of the Miami Heat’s success in the NBA playoffs to date thanks in part to a 15-15 consecutive basket streak that remained alive last night despite the Heat’s loss to the Pacers — because he didn’t attempt…
Ex-quarterback Cullen Finnerty was a Denver Bronco so briefly before the 2008 season that only the most fervent fans of the team are likely to recall him. Until now, that is. Finnerty, who led his Grand Valley State University squad to three national championships before his short stint with Denver,…
Goalies aren’t exactly known for fighting. But as you can see by some of the many videos on view below, Patrick Roy, among the best players to ever wear a Colorado Avalanche sweater, wasn’t afraid to throw down. He’ll need that bare-knuckle passion now that he’s finally accepted the job…
For the past year or so, Broncos receiver Eric Decker and Jesse James, his country-music-singing beloved, have topped the hottest local athlete/girlfriend list. But it looks like they’ve got some competition from the Colorado Rockies’ Josh Rutledge and Laura McKeeman, his significant other. A former Miss Florida, McKeeman works at…
Former defensive player of the year Charles Woodson had the chance to sign with either the Super Bowl-contending Denver Broncos or the lowly Oakland Raiders. And last night, he chose the Raiders. Having played in Oakland for eight years, Woodson should know as well as anyone that the Raiders suck…
This week’s feature, “Paging Doctor Bang Bang,” tells the story of Kimmy Kimmy Bang Bang, a.k.a. Kim Wilms, a foot-and-ankle surgeon by profession and a badass blocker and jammer on the track with the Denver Roller Dolls. Wilms doubles as the roller derby league’s unofficial in-house doctor, assisting skaters with…
