UPDATE: 10:19 a.m. Friday. We’ve picked a winner. Thanks for playing and check your e-mail to see if you’ve won. Attention, Latest Word readers: Want to win a pair of tickets to Saturday’s Rocky Mountain Showdown between the CU Buffs and CSU Rams at Sports Authority Field at Mile High,…
Even though the NBA season is in serious doubt, several Denver Nuggets will be in action soon. But it’ll be a tough commute for local fans to see them in person — since J.R. Smith and Wilson Chandler, possibly joined by Kenyon Martin, are expected to be ballin’ it up…
The new-look Denver Broncos fell to the Oakland Raiders last night just like the old-look version has lately. But the team’s fans still kick ass, as is clear from photog Brandon Marshall’s gallery of shots from last night. Look below to check out the most memorable tailgaters, decked out in…
Question for all those optimists expecting to see the Denver Broncos leave the Josh McDaniels debacle behind them: How are you feeling this morning? Depressed, probably — because all the flaws that led to McD’s ouster were still on view in their 23-20 home loss to the dreaded Raiders, including…
If you told Rockies fans at the beginning of the year that on September 11, Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki and Todd Helton would not be playing and the highlight of the game for a sub-.500 team would be a 6-foot-5 rookie pitcher from Mississippi, they might have punched you in…
Are you ready for some football? If not, get ready, because your Denver Broncos take on the dreaded Oakland Raiders tonight in the 2011-2012 season-opening Monday Night Football nightcap. To help, we’ve collected five crazy Denver Broncos fan videos, including the bizarre “It’s Denver Broncos Football Time!” chant, a wacky…
Despite the excellent first impression made by new CU-Boulder coach Jon Embree, the Buffs seemed bound for a beyond-mediocre season in its first Pac-12 campaign — an impression reinforced by its desultory game one loss versus Hawaii. But while CU fell to Cal 36-33 on Saturday, they offered plenty of…
Those of you addicted to reality television (hello! guilty!) will be familiar with the MTV show Made, which takes awkward teenagers and transforms them into the prom queen. Last month, CMT debuted an adult version, and next week’s episode features a stay-at-home mom who wants to be made into a…
Today, a jet crash in Russia claimed at least 43 lives, including two former (and well-remembered) Colorado Avalanche players, Karlis Skrastins and Ruslan Salei. Skrastins was known as the “Iron Man” for playing 487 consecutive games between 2003 and 2008, while Salei skated for the Avs from 2007 to 2010,…
Today’s Boulder Daily Camera features an article in which University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Darryl Maeda calls a Fox Sports report about CU and Utah joining the Pac-12 conference “demeaning” to Asians. But the newspaper didn’t really need to seek out an expert to make this claim. Anyone with…
Drew Pomeranz eats appendectomies and shits perfect innings. And now, the prize of the Ubaldo Jimenez trade is officially a major-league baseball player. Just over two weeks after having an emergency appendectomy, Pomeranz pitched three perfect innings yesterday for the Tulsa Drillers, the Rockies’ Double-A affiliate. He will join the…
No question that the Denver Broncos cheerleaders look better than the team that got manhandled by the Arizona Cardinals. And we have proof. By way of promoting their just-released 2012 calendar, the cheer squad has shared behind-the-scenes glimpses at the photo shoot on their Facebook page. Page through below to…
Last night, in a dispiriting 26-7 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, Brady Quinn warmed up for games that count by playing as he did during the regular season for the Cleveland Browns — like one of the worst QBs in the league. And Tim Tebow? Not great, but not nearly…
Tonight, the Broncos take on the Arizona Cardinals in their final game of the 2011 preseason — meaning it could be fans’ last extended look at Tim Tebow playing quarterback for quite some time. There’s definitely a disconnect between what ESPN’s Merril Hoge sees in Tebow and the views of…
On Sunday in Civic Center Park, people were yelling, bumping into each other, ringing cow bells, throwing flowers, drinking beer, singing Colorado’s praises and poppin’ bottles. Oh yeah, there was a bike race too. Levi Leipheimer, a Californian who held the leaders jersey for the final three stages, won the…
As BYU sharpshooter Jimmer Fredette ascended to national basketball stardom, photos of his girlfriend, BYU cheerleader Whitney Wonnacott, began popping up everywhere. Such shots were of particular interest in these parts, since Wonnacott grew up here and graduated from Chatfield High School. Now, she’s back in the spotlight, after Jimmer…
Last week, radio host Dan Caplis argued that Tim Tebow is a victim of media bias and a poor decision on the part of the Broncos’ braintrust regarding his position behind QBs Kyle Orton and Brady Quinn. After Denver’s 23-20 Saturday win over Seattle, the first issue is still debatable,…
The Vail Time Trial was built for Levi Leipheimer. He is a time-trial specialist racing on a course that prides itself on punishing mountain climbs higher than that of any other race in the world. Leipheimer didn’t waste the opportunity, winning the stage and retaking the overall lead in the…
The Queen Stage, which racers battled yesterday from Gunnison to Aspen, was defined by two punishing climbs over Cottonwood and Independence passes. Yet, it was a rainy, white-knuckle inducing descent from Independence Pass that defined the day, and possibly the entire race. American George Hincapie won the stage and vaulted…
Update below: KHOW’s Dan Caplis is best known for talking politics — and treating President Barack Obama like a piñata. But yesterday, he spent the majority of the program he shares with Craig Silverman discussing Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. He sees the Chosen One as a victim of bias by…
From the Rockies’ perspective, Alex White and Drew Pomeranz, the top two pitchers they landed from the Cleveland Indians, have to be better than one Ubaldo Jimenez. After all, Joe Gardner and Matt McBride, the other two players the Rockies received, aren’t guaranteed to make a meaningful contribution in the…
After almost four and a half hours of racing up and down hills and battling winds of twenty miles per hour over almost 100 miles of terrain, most of the standings were decided in the concluding sprint of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge’s first stage. American Levi Leipheimer broke away…
