When the Denver Nuggets brought back Chris Andersen last year, I had absolutely no problem containing my excitement. But during this past season, including the playoffs, the Birdman proved to be the type of bench player every successful NBA squad needs: one who not only spells the starters, but provides…
Those of you hoping that Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall might get a slap on the wrist for his various legal troubles need a reality check. The case laid out against him in “Brandon Marshall’s Past,” a report for ESPN’s Outside the Lines, is so damning, so shocking, that…
Maybe Los Angeles Lakers players should keep it zipped when they visit Denver. Earlier this decade, Kobe Bryant spent month after month in legal hell after a woman said he’d sexually assaulted her, precipitating a media free-for-all in Eagle County that only ended after his accuser stopped participating in the…
As I write this blog, the Nuggets are down by 24 points to the Los Angeles Lakers with 1:36 to go in game six of the Western Conference finals — playing out the string in the kind of loss we’d come to expect in previous years, but had thought the…
This morning, we published a blog asking the musical question, “Clint Hurdle: How Many Times Has He Not Been Fired?” Don’t have to ask that anymore: Believe it or don’t, the Rockies pulled the trigger a few hours later. Bench coach Jim Tracy will serve as interim manager — and…
I was feeling a little Shmuck Light this week, unsure that anyone had really risen their shmuck game to a level deserving of this honor, which is fast becoming the Teen Choice Awards of the half-baked-insult-blog world. I engaged our Twitter friends, and even they, at first, were a little…
Yesterday afternoon, I was listening to the Klatt and Kreckman Show on Mile High Sports Radio/AM 1510 when the conversation turned to an item just put online by the Denver Post: To wit, Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle hadn’t been fired yet. That the Post considers a non-event to be…
Okay, okay: I get it. After watching LeBron James’ epic performance during the fourth quarter of Cleveland’s 112-102 victory over the Orlando last night, when he essentially schooled the entire Magic squad singlehandedly, I understand why the NBA, Nike and assorted TV networks would like to see him and Kobe…
There’s no doubt that the Colorado Avalanche needed Patrick Roy to take over the team as head coach — and when team president Pierre Lacroix decides to obtain someone’s services, he usually succeeds. But not in this case. Shortly after the Denver Post reported that Lacroix had offered him the…
I faced a dilemma when it came to the Nuggets’ crucial game five against the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA’s Western Conference finals last night. For weeks, I’d been scheduled to attend (and critique) the No Doubt-Paramore concert at Fiddler’s Green alongside my daughter Lora, a basketball fan just…
“NBA & Nike Lose if Denver Nuggets & Orlando Magic Advance to NBA Finals,” an article at MarketingShift.com, begins like so: “Everybody loves a conspiracy theory, including fans of the National Basketball Association. Since the Tim Donaghy refree scandal,commisioner David Stern can’t be thrilled with the complaints from former players…
True Nuggets fans didn’t watch last night’s edition of World Wrestling Entertainment’s Raw, in which Nugs owner Stan Kroenke and the ballers on his payroll were spoofed by WWE’s Vince McMahon and his unitard-clad minions — an act of revenge/publicity stoking inspired by a Pepsi Center double-booking. We were too…
Our daily stroll through the local blogosphere. Brandon Marshall’s ex-girlfriend will be interviewed on ESPN this weekend. Why do we suspect she’s not bragging about his gift-giving prowess? (Complete Colorado) The case against high-speed rail in Colorado. (Face the State) You know you’re bad when your local city magazine has…
To be a fan of the Denver Nuggets — even the new, improved Denver Nuggets — is to risk cardiac arrest on an all-too-regular basis. Saturday night’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers would have put the Nugs in a commanding position, and they seemed to have everything going for…
California filmmaker Stephen Auerbach had his work cut out for him when he decided to make a documentary about the Race Across America four years ago. Although well-known in elite biking circles, RAAM may be the most undercovered and punishing sporting event around — a 3,000-mile race from the Pacific…
Our cruise through the local blogosphere. Take a peek, send a link, call it a day. It’s high time Melo got his own Most Valuable Puppet. (Denver Stiffs) CU students will be true to their school — for a fee, whether they like or not. (Face the State) More on…
Maybe Vince McMahon, the feverish frontman for World Wrestling Entertainment, isn’t a steroid-addled loon — or at least he’s managed to channel any rage he might be feeling for whatever reason into pure, self-promotional bliss. Ever since word broke that a Nuggets playoff game on Monday conflicted with a previously…
In a blog yesterday, I stopped short of guaranteeing a Nuggets victory over the Lakers last night, but pointed out that I expected one. Before the opening tip, though, I suddenly had reason to anticipate disaster. After all, the lead referee for the game was Steve Javie, the quickest whistle…
As you might recall, TNT’s Charles Barkley was the first national analyst to say the Nuggets could win a title. As you also might recall, Charles Barkley has quite the gambling habit — so fierce that he was once sued by the Wynn for $400,000 in unpaid gambling debts, which…
Before the Nuggets-Lakers series began, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa put an unusual spin the typical sporting bet between city head honchos over playoff games. If the Lakers lose, he promised to send Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper the Los Angeles Times to replace the Rocky Mountain News, which folded in…
Watching the Nuggets third-round-opening loss to the Lakers on Tuesday, I heard a plug for the NBA’s team shop, and immediately wondered what the local designers at DeRailed Ink had come up with for Denver’s run. As usual, they didn’t disappoint, coming through with the “J.R. Swish” design at right,…
You’ve heard that people who don’t pay attention to the past are doomed to repeat it? In that spirit, we present the video above, which does a fine job of synopsizing the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff-series victory over the Denver Nuggets in 1985, the last time the teams met in…
