Bob Meyer sat in front of a television in his Castle Rock home, his gaze fixed on the 18th green at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, almost 3,000 miles east on New York’s Long Island. Wyndham Clark, a Denver native, hovered over a long putt, about 60 feet from the hole. If Clark could get down …
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I received an email last week that reminded me of a historic moment in my youth. In the email, Major League Baseball told Rockies fans how to access an app that would enable them to vote as many as seven times a day for their favorite players in All-Star Game balloting, in particular for Hunter …
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We were in our kitchen, playing a friendly game of Scrabble as we often do after dinner, when a medical alert we’d never seen before disrupted our tranquility. I looked at the message on my wrist and initially didn’t know its importance. You may recall that last November, at Thanksgiving, I wrote a column reflecting …
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Who is your Rockies All-Star this season? Voting to determine which players will represent their teams at the 96th Midsummer Classic in Philadelphia July 14 began June 3. Pitchers will be named later. Major League Baseball requires that every team have at least one player or pitcher in the game, so Colorado is assured of …
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With the Avalanche and Nuggets eliminated from their playoffs and the Rockies once again going nowhere, it’s not too early to assess the Broncos’ recently announced 2026 schedule and speculate on their postseason prospects. Based on the won-lost records for all teams in the 2025 season, Denver has the 15th toughest schedule this year. Last …
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It was January 28, 1998. The Broncos had won their first Super Bowl just three days earlier, and a throng estimated at 650,000 had packed downtown to cheer and honor their heroes. Owner Pat Bowlen, the polar opposite of Dallas Cowboys self-aggrandizing Jerry Jones or bombastic George Steinbrenner of MLB’s New York Yankees, raised the …
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When Greg and Carrie Walton Penner acquired a 40% stake in the Colorado Rockies recently, there no doubt were many people who wondered why the Broncos’ owners would “waste” (or at least risk) a portion of their considerable wealth on a perennial loser like Denver’s Major League Baseball team. A study by the Greenwood Village-based …
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Through the end of April, the first full month of the 2026 major league baseball season, the Colorado Rockies were four games under .500 at 14-18, a winning percentage of .438. At the end of April in 2025, they were 5-25, a winning percentage of .167. And they had lost 57 by the time they …
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Bo Nix did what I’ve been encouraging everyone to do for years. A daughter, Riley Belle Nix, was born to the Broncos quarterback and his wife Izzy on February 25—her daddy’s 26th birthday. Seven weeks later he wrote a long letter to his first-born, published in The Players Tribune, a media platform that publishes first-person …
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In August 2010 Stan Kroenke exercised a right of first refusal for the late Georgia Frontiere’s 60% interest in the then-St. Louis Rams, giving him full ownership of the National Football League franchise, which in 2016 he would move to Los Angeles. NFL owners unanimously approved his acquisition—on the condition that Kroenke comply with the …
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