Grading The Week: CSU Rams, Jay Norvell got welcome transfer portal mojo,...
Quitter’s Day was last Friday, apparently, when many New Year’s resolutions get chucked into the recycling bin. Not up in the Grading The Week cubicles. No way, no how. We make a promise for 2025, we...
View ArticleKeeler: Avalanche, please don’t make Nuggets’ mistakes. Pay Mikko Rantanen....
Give Moose his juice. Let’s say, eight years at $101 million. Everybody gets what they want. Mikko Rantanen, the good solider and Nathan MacKinnon’s literal right-hand man, becomes a $100-million...
View ArticleRenck vs. Keeler debate: Who wins a pro title next for Denver? Michael...
Renck: The cold was giving way to darkness as the Broncos walked to their team bus in Orchard Park, N.Y., the raw afternoon and a sobbing autograph seeker signaling the end of Denver’s season. There...
View ArticleMines football coach Pete Sterbick resigns, Yon Boone named interim coach
A Golden opportunity just opened up with the Colorado School of Mines football program. Again. For the second time in three years, the Orediggers are looking for a new head football coach. Pete...
View ArticleKeeler: Who needs Joel Embiid? Not Nuggets. Nikola Jokic-Victor Wembanyama is...
Out of sight, out of pined. Who needs Joel Embiid? Nikola Jokic-vs.-Victor Wembanyama is the NBA’s best big man tussle now, by default. The fault, in this case, being Embiid’s bum left knee. “I always...
View ArticleKeeler: CU Buffs players, staff gave standing ovation at legendary coach Bill...
BOULDER — If they handed out Heismans for selfless hearts, Archie Griffin would be eating Peach Pagano’s dust. “I was bawling down there,” Pagano told me Wednesday, not long after the last chords of...
View ArticleX Games could soon include franchise in Denver, CEO Jeremy Bloom says
Are you ready for the Colorado Corkscrew? Or maybe the Colorado Chunder? The Denver Double Grabs? “I am talking to a big ownership group in Denver,” X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom, the Loveland native and...
View ArticleKeeler: Avalanche trade of Mikko Rantanen to Carolina raises red flags. And a...
Trading Moose is fan abuse. Surely, they’re not done. Right? Shipping out Mikko Rantanen has to be the beginning of a mid-season makeover — not the Finn-ishing piece. Surely, somebody’s coming....
View ArticleGrading The Week: Has Broncos’ Pat Surtain II passed Champ Bailey, Louis...
It’s getting a little crowded on the Mount Rushmore of Broncos cornerbacks. But when it comes to monuments, the kids up in the Grading The Week offices figure you best not take Pat Surtain II for...
View ArticleKeeler: Coach Prime is new face of university that can’t afford to lose him
Why should you give a dime about Coach Prime? Four words: Pat Shurmur, CU interim. The best Buffs will be running a 40-yard dash to the transfer portal in about 4.2 flat. Next thing you know, the best...
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