The maddening Madness of 2023 is now history. Finally! say all whose brackets were busted before the tournament reached the Elite Eight. By the way, how many of the teams you picked made the Final Four? Thought so. Did you pick Florida Atlantic, San Diego State or Miami to win it all? UConn? The …
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The news broke on the morning of the Rockies’ opener against the Padres in San Diego: “Bard takes time on IL to address anxiety.” Anxiety. In baseball, it’s often called the yips, a term also commonly associated with a golfer’s difficulty making putts. It’s been called Steve Blass Disease and Steve Sax Syndrome, too. Whatever …
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It’s Opening Day! The Rockies begin their 2023 season at 2:10 p.m. against the San Diego Padres. Will you be in the festive crowd? Just kidding. The game’s at Petco Park, not Coors Field. The home opener in Denver is next week, when there WILL be a boisterous throng at 20th and Blake. But the …
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At St. Paul Grade School in Florence, Kentucky in 1956, the student-teacher ratio in fifth grade was 56-to-1. Yes, that’s right. It was Sister Sylvester’s job to maintain order while imparting knowledge to all 56 of us. She did a fine job, too. It was one of the most successful years of my entire education, …
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In December 2020, Karl Dorrell said: “I have been waiting for this day for quite a bit. I am excited about this class. It is a very important class. They are really going to impact our depth and how we play. “It is exciting for our future.” Dorrell, then University of Colorado football coach, was …
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“How do you become a bracketologist?” I was asked the other day. “I don’t know,” I had to admit. Then, I offered: “Maybe you lock yourself in a room with a dozen TVs, from sometime in November through the following early March; watch as many college basketball games as possible (which means at least a …
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It will never stir worldwide national passions the way the FIFA World Cup does every four years, but the World Baseball Classic is returning after a six-year absence, and it seems to be catching on with some folks. “I never followed the tournament closely in the past,” Rockies closer Daniel Bard told MLB.com’s Thomas Harding …
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Next year—as in “Wait ‘til next year”— finally has arrived; the Rockies are hard at work in Scottsdale. Granted, only one team can win the World Series, and the postseason is limited to five clubs from each league. But . . . “Hope springs eternal” applies to all 30 when they gather in Arizona and …
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I’ve been trying to decide what to make of the Broncos’ protracted coaching search, the heralded acquisition of Sean Payton, and the early optimism about Denver’s football future with him at the helm. After weeks of listening, reading and ruminating, here’s what I’ve come up with. First, the process: We may never know for sure, …
