Author: Woody Paige
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Woody Paige: Grubhauer great for Kraken as Georgiev, Avs freeze
Revenge is a dish best served on ice. The Ex-Man, Philipp Grubhauer, didn’t quite shut out his former club Tuesday night, but he sure shut down and shut up the Avalanche. Despite coming out lethargic, for some undisclosed upper-brain freeze, the Avalanche, and especially Nate MacKinnon, eventually threw everything they had at Grubhauer and couldn’t…
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Woody Paige: After 1 game, Nuggets might silence the doubters
In the NBA Late Show live Sunday night The Joker put on an MVP show and the Not-Accepted-for-Prime -Time Nuggets put the hurt on the Minnesota opponent that played like Tenderwolves. With a 13-0 run late in the third quarter the Nuggets had an 81-56 advantage. Nikola Jokic showed why he is an MVP even…
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Woody Paige: Colorado’s NHL, NBA giants have shot at history
To revise the exclamations of two famed giants, the rallying refrain of Denver’s two teams in the playoffs must be “Fee-Fi-‘Fo’-Fo’-Fo’-Fo’-Fum.’’ In all, the Avalanche and the Nuggets have to win 32 games (16 each) to become The Twin Titlists, a first ever in the NHL-NBA. The double dip is Mission Improbable. Beantown Boston’s a…
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Woody Paige: Special-teams guru aims to land a ring with Broncos
Mike Westhoff seems like a seafaring character out of a Herman Melville novel. He belonged as a gnarly merchant sailor on a whaling ship in the South Pacific in the winter of 1839 rather than as the Broncos’ new sage, sagacious assistant head coach at Dove Valley on the first day of off-season training activities…
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Woody Paige: Farewell to The Duke of Denver. John Elway’s impact will never be forgotten
Happy trails, John Elway! The Duke of Denver, Good Ol’ No. 7, the most legendary athlete in Colorado history is riding off into the sunset. “I don’t have that desire to climb another mountain again. I’ve been to the summit a bunch of times in 62 years,” Elway said. He certainly has reached the mountaintop.…
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Woody Paige: Rockies’ potential blooms in home opener
In the Grandeur Opening, the Rockies discovered their LoDo Mojo! Outlined against an Easter-egg-blue background on an enchanting 66-degree afternoon before a joyous sellout crowd of 48,230, the Blake Street Baseball Boys of Colorado played impeccably and won 1. Now, that’s a game. The Rox Magic Number is 79. Spring hopes eternal as the ballclub…
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Woody Paige: Avalanche and Nuggets both Champs? We can only hope
Giddy Up! By both qualifying for the postseason for the fifth consecutive season the Nuggets and the Avalanche have a chance to become double dip NHL-NBA champions for a historic first in North American sports. Since the advent of the NHL in November of 1917 and the NBA in June of 1946 (same month I…
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Woody Paige: Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton won’t be fooled into failure
Sean Payton is no April fool. In less time than it took last season for the Broncos to get a play deliberated and decided upon, relayed to the quarterback and implemented by the offense their new head coach knows what his predecessor never did in his short, sorry stay. The NFL is tackle football except…
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Woody Paige: Rockies’ Bard shows courage; now he needs peace to make another comeback
The game was not the most important concern for the Rockies Thursday night. Daniel Bard was. The 37-year-old Bard, one of the six premier closers in baseball last season, courageously admitted in San Diego before the opener he is suffering again – years later – from anxiety and can’t pitch now, and he doesn’t know when he…
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Woody Paige: Nikola Jokic MVP bid benefits as Joel Embiid sits
Colorado lately has experienced fewer public sightings of Joel Embiid than mountain lions. A mountain lion showed up to annoy a couple of tourists sitting in a hot tub in Nathrop. Embiid was a late no-show for the standing-room sellout of 19,781 at the arena. The only way to persuade Embiid to appear live in…