While homegrown Olympic heroine Missy Franklin won lotsa hardware in London, she may have landed her biggest prize last night, when she finally got to meet Justin Bieber, who killed her with a tweet last July. And even though he looks sorta stoned in their photo backstage at his sold-out…
Now we know who the Broncos will face in their 2013 playoffs debut: the Baltimore Ravens, by dint of the squad’s 24-9 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. So…will the emotion from Ray Lewis’s final home game (depicted in videos included in a big collection of clips below) help…
Devoted Broncos fans probably remember the greatest among their ranks, Tim “Barrel Man” McKernan, as the guy who wore nothing but a barrel with overalls to pretty much every home game — rain or shine — from 1977 to 2007 (though he attended, fully-clothed, nearly every game ten years beyond…
So the boys in Vegas now have Your Denver Broncos as 3-1 favorites to win Super Bowl XLVII, ahead of annoying New England (7-2), the hot-hot Seahawks (6-1), and the snowball-chance-in-hell Vikings (100-1). Win ten games in a row, and even the smart money starts to take you seriously. But…
Attention, everybody. It is flu season. Know how we can tell? Because during last night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, Nugget Kenneth Faried — the Manimal, if you will — puked into a towel while sitting on the bench. But that didn’t stop the dude from scoring nineteen points…
Sunday’s Broncos-Ravens match-up looked to be the most difficult on Denver’s second-half-of-the-season schedule — a road game against a division-leading team whose quarterback, Joe Flacco, continues to chirp about how he and his squad are among the NFL’s elite. They sure as hell didn’t look like it during a 34-17…
Well, we’ve had a couple of days to absorb the naming of Mike MacIntyre, formerly with San Jose State, as the CU Buffs’ head football coach. But frankly, we still have no idea whether the move has a reasonable chance of success — and neither does anyone else. After all,…
Update: Yesterday, we reported that Cincinnati coach Butch Jones had turned down the CU Buffs football coach job, despite the Denver Post reporting that he’d accepted it the day before; see our previous coverage below. Now, we know more about what led the Post to ballyhoo this erroneous information –…
Yeah, I know: It’s ridiculous. We ought to be celebrating the Broncos’ 26-13 victory over the Raiders in Oakland last night. After all, it’s Denver’s eighth straight win, and it keeps alive the chance that the team could move up in playoffs seeding. But damn it if Peyton Manning’s transformation…
When most veteran Broncos fans first muttered the phrase “Raiders suck!,” they didn’t: The team was good for decades, which partly (but only partly) explains why we hated them so much. Now, though, the Raiders really do suck — and with the Broncos slated to play them tonight, it seemed…
The funniest moment in the broadcast of Denver’s 31-23 victory over Tampa Bay took place after Peyton Manning waved his hands to quiet the ecstatic Mile High Stadium throng prior to a play. Cut to the crowd a few seconds later and everyone in the shot was sitting quietly, like…
Most memes floating around the web are, well, mean. But not those found on the Denver Broncos Memes Facebook page. The images collected there are almost entirely positive, from a Broncos fan’s perspective — and just perfect to prepare you for Sunday’s big game between Denver and the Tampa Bay…
Jon Embree’s firing as CU Buffs football coach has been cheered by some fans — like those who identify with our gallery of CU Buffs suck memes. But others argue that Embree was sacked before he had a real chance to turn the moribund program around. They include former CU…
No one delighted in the firing of CU Buffs football coach Jon Embree over the weekend — but few were shocked by it, either. After all, the team has become a national laughingstock, especially online. As evidence, we present the following gallery of memes ripping the Buffs for their ineptitude…
Broncos players and coaches talked up the 1-9 Kansas City Chiefs prior to meeting them at Arrowhead Stadium yesterday, as they stressed in post-game interviews following a 17-9 victory. But anyone who sat through the brutally ugly contest knows better. It was clear from the earliest moments that Denver hadn’t…
Yesterday, CU students enjoying the last hours of their Thanksgiving break received a university e-mail informing them that Buffs football coach Jon Embree had been sacked; see it below. We predicted this move last week — not that the mysticism of Nostradamus was required to see this one coming. Still,…
On Sunday, the Denver Broncos take on the Kansas City Chiefs — but no matter how badly Peyton Manning and company pummel KC (we hope), they won’t be able to do any more damage to Loren G. “Sam” Lickteig. That’s because Lickteig is already dead, and according to the obituary…
The worth of athletes is so highly quantified — by their physical measurements, their stats, their contracts, the numbers on their backs — that it’s easy to take football players for granted as tools designed specifically to dominate the gridiron. Easily overlooked is the hard work and personal sacrifice offered…
Alabama football fans’ favorite saying is “Roll Tide!” Now, boosters of CU Buffs basketball have changed it to “Roll Tad!” — as in head coach Tad Boyle, who’s energized the program in precisely the way CU football coach Jon Embree has failed to do. While the pigskin squad was falling…
The play of Peyton Maning and Von Miller couldn’t be more different stylistically. The former is a perfectionist who sometimes marks TDs with the hint of a smile, but usually not, while the latter is an exuberant goofball who said one of his sack celebrations yesterday was inspired by Sonic…
Is Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers the most hated player in the NFL, or just the most hated among Broncos fans? Hard to say — but there’s no denying the incredible number of memes ridiculing him. In advance of Sunday’s rematch between the Chargers and the Broncos, we’ve collected our twenty…
Last week, the Denver Post announced a desire to sell its 7.3 percent stake in the Colorado Rockies — an asset acquired due to the Rocky Mountain News’s 2009 closure. A knowledgeable source tells Westword this move was motivated by dire financial problems at the Post — ones serious enough…
