Serious fans of the Colorado Rockies will have the opportunity to salute one of the team’s biggest stars—and its most overlooked—in a couple weeks. On September 29 Bob Gebhard finally will be inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. Hired in 1992 as the first general manager of the Rockies, Geb is the man …
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When Bill Schmidt was named “interim” General Manager of the Colorado Rockies in early May and, at the same time, the ballclub talked of a far-reaching search to find the baseball genius who could build a consistent winner in the mile-high altitude, my immediate thought was that he had just been given the worst job …
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What I’m calling the rainy season begins next week. That’s when the National Football League—sports betting’s biggest attraction—commences its first 17-game season in history. According to The Wall Street Journal, Caesars Entertainment Inc., DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Group are the NFL’s official sportsbook partners in a five-year, $1 billion (billion, with a B) deal that …
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There’s a lot to watch For avid baseball fans, there’s nothing better than a pennant race in the final weeks of the regular season. It’s that time when scoreboard-watching is as intense as game-watching. So, with 39 days remaining in the 2021 schedule, now is a good time to look at what’s left for contending …
In the most recent Rockies home stand (three against the Cubs and three with the Marlins) the games varied in length from two hours fifty-one minutes to three hours seventeen minutes. The six averaged 3:05. That got me thinking more about a discussion topic at the most recent gathering of a monthly lunch group I’m …
Judging by the ovations he received during the four-game series with St. Louis over the Fourth of July weekend and again at the All-Star Game, Coors Field fans still consider Nolan Arenado one of their all-time favorite players. I’m not one of them. I marveled at his amazing defensive skill, cheered his clutch hitting and …
“ Just racing in the rain and riding the storm out” BY STEFAN KRUSZE After the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the Littleton Twilight Criterium, due to the Covid-19 Global Pandemic, the bicycle race made it’s return regardless of the unpredictable Colorado weather. Make no mistake, regardless of the race course conditions the races …
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“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts …
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MLB’s All-Star Week welcomed some very special guests – families of America’s Fallen Heroes through TAPS. The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) is the national nonprofit organization providing hope, healing and resources to all those grieving the loss of a military loved one. As the guests of Major League Baseball and the Colorado Rockies, …
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The Broncos begin training camp next Wednesday for the expanded, 17-game 2021 National Football League season, and I still don’t understand the skepticism and doubt about Teddy Bridgewater as possibly Denver’s starting quarterback. It’s interesting that many of the same people who deride Drew Lock and are certain he’s not the long-term answer to lead …
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