Sellers or buyers? Or neither? That’s the decision hanging over Rockies General Manager Bill Schmidt as next Tuesday’s Major League Baseball trade deadline fast approaches. Conventional wisdom seems to be that Colorado will, or should, be a seller, with Julio Iglesias and Daniel Bard the most likely players to be moved for younger talent. Alex …
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The Broncos begin their most anticipated summer training camp in a decade next Wednesday at their Dove Valley complex. On the same day, the Seahawks begin their preparation for the 2022 National Football League season some 1,300 miles from Denver in the Seattle suburb of Renton. Russell Wilson is the drawing card here—just as Peyton …
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“I think I’m the best power hitter on the planet,” Mets first baseman Pete Alonso proclaimed after winning his second straight Home Run Derby during All-Star Week in Denver a year ago. And he just might be—currently. Last July he became only the third player ever to win back-to-back Home Run Derbies, joining Hall of …
Should student-athletes be paid to play for the university they choose to attend? Some people think so, but most say, no. Should they be compensated for the use of their name, image or likeness (NIL) in promoting their team, the conference in which their school is a member, or any commercial entity that wants to …
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I’ve tried hard to keep politics out of this column, and I will continue to do so. But as the parent of a daughter and grandparent of her two girls (who, thankfully, are young women now), I am compelled to add my view to the ongoing debate over transgender athletes and President Biden’s proposed changes …
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Now that the Stanley Cup Playoffs have reached their climactic series, I’m wondering if the Avalanche are in for more of the kind of punishment inflicted on them by Nashville, St. Louis and Edmonton. The best-of-seven with two-time Cup champ Tampa Bay will be bruising, for sure. That’s hockey, especially championship hockey. But Samuel Girard …
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With their 8-7 loss to Atlanta Sunday, the Rockies not only were swept at home in a four-game series for the first time since 2019, but they also concluded the first third of the 2022 season. They finished their first 54 games three victories better than their 20-34 record at the end of the first …
THERE’S A LESSON for everyone in the Avs’ victory over St. Louis in Game Six of their Stanley Cup playoff series last Friday night. Maybe more than one. “You sulk for three minutes and move on,” said captain Gabriel Landeskog after the Blues rallied to beat Colorado in overtime last week in Denver. “It’s as …
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We won’t know for several months whether or not Russell Wilson is everything that rabid Broncos fans think he is: National Football League Most Valuable Player . . . Super Bowl LVII champion . . . the best thing since Peyton Manning. But one thing we can say now is that he’s definitely playing the …
