Anyone who thought Dan Hawkins would start talking about the CU Buffs more realistically after being promised another year as head coach were disabused of this notion following the squad’s not-quite-shocking loss to Nebraska on Friday. Among Hawkins’ post-game comments: “I think it’s one of those seasons where if you…
We’ll leave it to the shrinks and pundits to try to figure out which Broncos team is going to show up in Kansas City next week. Will it be the upstarts who shocked just about everybody for six games? The head cases who fell flat against the Redskins and were…
You didn’t really think the Broncos were going to win six games and then lose the next ten did you? You didn’t really think they would suddenly just turn into the team everyone expected them to be and make a mockery of hope? Wait, what? You did? Well, you weren’t…
Pretty much the only folks not dumbfounded by reports that Dan Hawkins will get a fifth year as CU coach are university accountants. Clearly, this announcement (expected to be made on Thanksgiving, when plenty of people with gorging on their mind are apt to miss it) will have nothing to…
Some CU fans may regard coach Dan Hawkins admission yesterday that recruiting his son Cody was a mistake as the final nail in his coffin. Truth is, the lid on his pine box has been pretty much fastened since a double-whammy a few weeks back: a nutty late October press…
As soon as I saw that Chris Simms was starting under center for the Broncos against the Chargers yesterday, I expected a loss — a bad one. But even in my worst nightmares, I didn’t expect the resulting 32-3 drubbing, which was made worse by the ingredients that went into…
You don’t expect much from your daily-newspaper sports columnists these days. Sentences that make sense, some well-placed punctuation, maybe a bad pun or two. But while our expectations have been lowered over the years by the likes of Woody Paige and Skip Bayless and whoever else shows up in the…
If moral victories mattered at this point (which they don’t), CU’s 31-28 loss to Oklahoma State last night would definitely qualify. Yes, I know: OSU was without starting quarterback (and Chatfield High School alum) Zac Robinson, and the squad’s been mildly overrated all season long, making its ranking as the…
ESPN Sports Guy and Broncos bandwagon driver Bill Simmons is in Denver tonight, for the last stop on his fall book-signing tour. If you have or want a copy of his new tome, The Book of Basketball, get to the LoDo Tattered Cover sometime before 5 p.m. and stand in…
It only took a day for evidence that speculation about Mike Shanahan following the doomed Dan Hawkins as head coach for CU to crumble. NFL.com’s Vic Carucci reports that Shanny’s likely to talk next week with the braintrust of the Buffalo Bills, who just sacked Dick Jauron. Carucci points out…
Don’t know if the Colorado Rockies had inside information about Jim Tracy being named the National League manager of the year yesterday — and even if there was no heads-up, execs certainly could have guessed. Who was more deserving of the honor than Tracy, who transformed a Rockies squad headed…
We’ve reached the point in the Dan Hawkins saga where no one is even pretending he can survive as coach of the CU Buffs. After this past weekend’s catastrophe against the Cyclones of Iowa State, talk among members of Buffs nation has transitioned from silly discussions about bowl eligibility to…
Next Thursday, just as you’re waking up from your turkey-induced coma and reaching for your fourth piece of pie, the Broncos will welcome the New York Giants into their homes and then try to slaughter them. (Just like the pilgrims! How fitting!) But while the Broncos are surely glad to…
Allen Iverson stands as proof that Denver brings out the best in people. When he was in Philadelphia, he was clearly a brilliant talent, but he could also be cranky and petulant, as demonstrated in this classic news-conference meltdown about missing a practice. Denver fans were braced for more of…
Another day, another dopey Denver Post sports column about Broncos QB Kyle Orton. First, it was Woody Paige arguing that Orton should be benched in favor of backup Chris Simms — an idea whose stupidity was proven by Simms’ ineptitude after coming in for an injured KO against the Redskins…
Since late last month, it’s been abundantly clear that CU coach Dan Hawkins is a dead man talking — a man hoping against hope that his enthusiastic jabbering about his underperforming team will convince the powers that be not to give him the boot at season’s end. But after the…
Behold: The talent-evaluating acumen of one Woody Paige, Denver Post columnist and ESPN yukmeister, who last week called for backup Chris Simms to be given the starting quarterback job for the Broncos in place of Kyle Orton. Be careful what you wish for, Woody. Because what you got blew. Yesterday,…
It was just last week that we were talking about how overrated Jay Cutler is. But even we never imagined that he’d offer up a performance as embarrassing as the one the nation saw last night in the Chicago Bears’ 10-6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Sweet Baby Jay…
You had to know it’d happen about now — and that Woody Paige would be the instigator. When the Broncos were 6-0, Kyle Orton was the toast of the town — or at least no one was referring to him as toast, as fans had been doing before the season…
Confession: I pay very little attention to soccer, which is only the world’s most popular sport because — well, frankly, I have no idea why it’s the world’s most popular sport, because it bores the hell out of me. As a result, I had no idea that the trophy for…
Last night’s Broncos-Steelers game was déjà vu all over again — a virtual blueprint of the previous week’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Close early thanks to Denver’s unexpectedly staunch defense (and despite a costly turnover — this time an interception). But the offense’s inability to hold the ball for…
I admit it. I was absolutely convinced that Jay Cutler was the foundation on which the Broncos needed to build their future — and when he threw the epic hissy-fit that preceded his trade to Chicago, I anticipated disaster. As the season has gone on, however, I’ve come to realize…
