Avs-Stars Game 3 Quick Hits: Alexandar Georgiev deserved more support than...
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 4-1 loss to Dallas in Game 3 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. Georgie deserved better: As maddening as the opening 55 minutes played out for a...
View ArticleDeion Sanders’ extreme CU makeover quadrupled Buffs’ win count. Could another...
BOULDER — Gerry DiNardo doesn’t know Deion Sanders from Adam Bledsoe. But he knows this: If ex-CU Buffs coach Bill McCartney had his mitts on the transfer portal four decades ago, he would’ve used that...
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Keeler: If Avalanche coach Jared Bednar doesn’t adjust, Stars’ Pete DeBoer...
What is it about the Stanley Cup Playoffs that turns Peter DeBoer into Robert Oppenheimer and Jared Bednar into Opie Taylor? “The margin between winning and losing is so slight,” Avalanche defenseman...
View ArticleRenck vs. Keeler: Nuggets’ Michael Malone or Avs’ Jared Bednar? Who you trust...
Sean Keeler: Just like they drew it up, right? OK, so maybe the Nuggets took the long way — about 1,820 miles up and back from the Twin Cities — to grab home court again. But Lady Mo(mentum) is Lady...
View ArticleKeeler: Avalanche gave Valeri Nichushkin a second chance. He blew it. It’s...
Sleepless in Seattle, Doomed in Denver. Two straight postseasons. Two straight playoff exits for Valeri Nichushkin. It’s been real, Val. Lord, it’s been glorious. But this is your stop. The Avalanche...
View ArticleAvs-Stars Game 4 Quick Hits: Avalanche’s 3-1 deficit and this much bad mojo...
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 5-1 loss to Dallas in Game 4 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. No mojo = hard road: Whatever the Avs did to you, hockey gods, they’re sorry....
View ArticleKeeler: Can Avalanche trust Valeri Nichushkin again? “Only he can answer that”
How do you forgive a brother who won’t stop breaking your heart? “Can they trust him?” ESPN analyst and former NHL goalie Kevin Weekes replied when I asked about Valeri Nichushkin, the Avalanche’s...
View ArticleDenver Post staff predictions: Forecasting the Broncos’ 2024 record
The Broncos’ full 2024 schedule was released Wednesday. The Post’s sports staff took the occasion to forecast how Sean Payton’s second season in Denver will play out. Parker Gabriel, Broncos reporter...
View ArticleAvs-Stars Game 5 Quick Hits: Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar came through when...
Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 5-3 win at Dallas in Game 5 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. MacKinnon, Makar come through: What was it Michael Malone reminded us? Never...
View ArticleKeeler: Sorry, Miro. Avalanche star Cale Makar is still NHL’s real Stanley...
Spare the wreaths. Hold the psalms. You come to bury Cale Makar, you better come correct. Lordy, the yapping. The peanut gallery on X tapped out 150-character obits, a troll at a time. ESPN spent much...
View ArticleKeeler: Avalanche gave Valeri Nichushkin a second chance. He blew it. It’s...
Sleepless in Seattle, Doomed in Denver. Two straight postseasons. Two straight playoff exits for Valeri Nichushkin. It’s been real, Val. Lord, it’s been glorious. But this is your stop. The Avalanche...
View ArticleKeeler: Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog is Colorado royalty. But Avs can’t...
Hope is no longer a strategy, O Captain, my Captain. Not a working strategy. Not a Stanley Cup-winning strategy, at any rate. Without Gabe Landeskog, the Avs are stuck spinning their wheels in...
View ArticleGrading The Week: Russell Wilson vs. Sean Payton. Deion Sanders vs. CSU...
Russell Wilson vs. Sean Payton at Empower Field. Deion Sanders vs. Jay Norvell in the Rocky Mountain Showdown in FoCo. Mines vs. West Texas A&M in Golden. UNC vs. Abilene Christian in Greeley. The...
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Keeler: How LSU Tigers commit Gabriella Cunningham, Grandview’s 100- and...
No one with a heart so heavy should be that fast. After winning the 100-meter hurdles, Gabriella Cunningham, still in the clear, got about nine strides past the finish line, cocked her head and...
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How it happened: Nuggets’ championship defense ends with Game 7 loss to...
UPDATE: Nuggets blow 20-point lead in season-ending Game 7 loss to Minnesota Timberwolves Final: Timberwolves 98, Nuggets 90 The title defense is done. Denver fought valiantly, turning a 2-0 series...
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Keeler: How Anthony Edwards, KAT flipped Game 7 script on Nuggets: “Once we...
Ant-Man didn’t just laugh loudest. He laughed last. “I had Jamal (Murray) in handcuffs,” Anthony Edwards chuckled as he walked the halls of Ball Arena after Minnesota stunned the Nuggets, 98-90, to win...
View ArticleRenck vs. Keeler: Was Nuggets-Wolves Game 7 the most crushing loss in...
Troy Renck: A day later, hearts remain in throats, fists remain in a ball. The frustration and disappointment with the Nuggets’ season-ending defeat is palpable. There is no shame in losing to a team...
View ArticleKeeler: If Nuggets coach Michael Malone, Calvin Booth aren’t on same page,...
Michael Malone didn’t just shorten his bench. He strangled it. Christian Braun played a valiant 20 minutes in that scarring, jarring Game 7, much of it spent badgering the heck outta Anthony Edwards....
View ArticleKeeler: Where did Deion Sanders, Cormani McClain relationship with CU Buffs...
Deion Sanders figured he’d just bagged the second coming of himself. Cormani McClain figured he’d landed an instant starting spot and a seat at the table with the rest of Coach Prime’s Chosen Ones....
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Keeler: DU lacrosse coach Matt Brown can’t stop making Pioneers legend Bill...
Blood doesn’t show on a crimson jersey. Pop the hood, and Bill Tierney recognizes the DU lacrosse chassis he built, all scars and sweat, with his bare hands all those years ago. But the engine, the...
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