Author: Woody Paige
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Rams rose to top of Colorado collegiate teams | Woody Paige
“The (Colorado Buffaloes) losing streak is at five games, and the first season under Deion Sanders has hit rock bottom.’’ — Tyler King, The Gazette. Fame can be fleeting, and the flame will grow fainter, then fade out. Boulder’s Bad-News Buffs have lost for the seventh game in eight. More shocking news happened at the…
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QBs abound down the stretch; Broncos must defeat 6 | Woody Paige
The Broncos’ enhanced defense could be confronting, in the last eight games, a mélange of opposing quarterbacks including a rocket scientist; a biologist who won the National Football Foundation’s scholar-athlete award; a sociologist; a four-year all-academic player who specialized in sports medicine; a human development major; a master’s degree recipient in technology and innovation; an…
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Win over Buffalo Bills puts Broncos back in business | Woody Paige
Because of back-to-back-to-back bursts, the Broncos are back, baby, and Buffalo’s blundering Bills bore a bad beat. For the first time since the three-game beginning of their 2021 season and only the second span in five seasons the Broncos have won three in a row. Where there’s a will (causing four turnovers and in successive…
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Josh Allen vs. Broncos a reminder of what could have been in Denver | Woody Paige
The Buffalo Bills are the only professional sports team named for a man who killed buffalo, tamed broncos, died in Denver and is buried on Lookout Mountain in Colorado. Buffalo and the Broncos, old foes from 1960, reconvene on a Monday night for the fourth time. Josh Allen is a Buffalo Bill instead of a…
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Woody Paige: Winning ways would help justify Broncos’ posh new HQ
The Broncos’ ownership will build a lavish headquarters to be completed in 2026, but will they build a winning team by then? Oddly enough, the construction cost of $175 million is approximately the same amount that the Penner-Walton Group will pay for Russell Wilson and Sean Payton from 2024 to 2026. As F. Scott Fitzgerald…
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Dick Monfort should fire himself, hire Rockies president of baseball operations | Woody Paige
Guess what is the only team in Major League Baseball that never has won a division title and/or a World Series? Guess which Denver franchise in the five major sports leagues never has won a division title or a championship? You guessed correctly. Free Tacos. The Monforts must feel mortified that the Rockies are Rock…
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Woody Paige: The Curse of the Chiefs is kaput
The Broncos’ error tour is over. Yippie ki-yay, Kansas City Chiefs. The Denver Broncos’ losing streak is an ex-hex. A new streak begins. The Broncos have won one in a row against the defending Super Bowl champions. On a day the earth stood still and the snowstorm suddenly stopped, the Broncos threw a perfect game.…
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Woody Paige: School of Mines, Air Force rule in a day full of Rocky Mountain football
In a Colo-palooza of college football Saturday the Orediggers and the Falcons remained undefeated, and the Mountaineers, the Rams and the Buffaloes were defeated. Colorado School of Mines 42, Western Colorado 7. Air Force Academy 30, Colorado State 13. UCLA 28, Colorado 16. Mines is 9-0 and still No. 1 in the country in Division…
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Nuggets’ tip-off to a repeat soars high above the Lakers | Woody Paige
… And STILL heavyweight champions of the world: THE Denver Nuggets. That has a ring to it. On an exhilarating, energizing, electrifying evening at an elevation of 5,280 feet above all, the Nuggets began the 2023-24 NBA season in the same way they ended the 2022-23 season. It was a banner-raising, hell-raising victory for 19,842…
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Not the prettiest performance, but the Broncos got it done | Woody Paige
This win was not as important, impressive, inspiring as The Big One 25 years ago in Super Bowl XXXII. But the Broncos needed a win, and finally got one. Overcoming two funky, freaky touchdown passes and down by one in the fourth quarter, the Broncos slipped past the Packers again a quarter-century later. These Broncos…