Tag: column
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Paul Klee: Ex-UCCS, CU star Derrick White puts on a show in memorable homecoming
DENVER • Over there? In Section 106? That’s the college coach who saw something in Derrick White when no one else did. He’s Jeff Culver of UCCS, with his wife and kids, soaking in one of the great hoops stories Colorado’s ever seen. “For us, he had Alex Welsh. Really good player,” Culver says. “But…
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Paul Klee: Case of the Mondays. How the Broncos can party like the Rockies.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • For once, after a great while, the adoring eyes of Colorado are not on the Broncos. They are on “big-game pitcher” German Marquez, as Trevor Story put it in a confident clubhouse on Sunday. They are on Charlie Blackmon’s cycle, Nolan Arenado’s glove…
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Paul Klee: The perfect Nuggets team for Colorado? This one — when they make the playoffs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • It hit me when Isaiah Thomas popped into a rookie’s interview at Nuggets media day and scored some laughs by feigning an answer: “Oh, I went to Kentucky! Sometimes we even went to class!” It hit me on Monday like a Mason Plumlee…
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Paul Klee: Denver Broncos legend Steve Atwater tackles new NFL rules — and deserves spot in Hall of Fame
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ENGLEWOOD • Right after Steve Atwater demonstrated a proper tackle by tackling me, causing my palms to sweat, we discussed the tackle. The tackle on “Monday Night Football.” The tackle we’re still talking about 27 years and 354 days later. It was the tackle where…
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Pikes Pub: New walking tour showcases Manitou Springs history, beer
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I did my senior year of college at the University of Edinburgh, where it was common practice for recitation and study groups to convene for deeper dives at the pub. I’m not saying the habit was integral to my appreciation of Scottish history or Shakespeare’s…
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Saying goodbye to family lake house filled with emotion for Gazette reporter Michelle Karas
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Completed in 1975 from a house kit ordered from a New York Times ad, my family’s summer home in western Pennsylvania features all the wood paneling and harvest gold appliances one would expect of that era. The house has its quirks. The builder installed all…
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Springs Beer Fest celebrates 12 years with scores more pours
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When it comes to the busy roster of summer beer festivals, it’s often all about timing. As such, a preponement of the Springs Beer Festival, from its traditional early-August date to late July, was a good one for schedules all around. The number of breweries…