Tag: columnist
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Arm Colorado’s school staffs now! | CALDARA
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Enough. Damn it, enough! Enough virtue signaling instead of preventing school shootings. Enough of elected school boards denying reality. It is time for all of Colorado’s 178 school districts to join the 50 that currently have volunteer, trained, concealed armed staff to stop a shooter…
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COLUMN: Many caused Elijah McClain’s death | Pius Kamau
Some tragedies affect us more profoundly than others. Elijah McClain’s death at the hands of police bothers me enormously because of its senselessness. After many months and with the cops’ obscene texting in mind, I often wonder what they say to each other now? Previously, I contrasted the results of two paramedic groups’ work. We…
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Paul Klee: Steve ‘Greek’ Antonopulos to present Broncos owner Pat Bowlen at Pro Football Hall of Fame
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ENGLEWOOD • Steve “Greek” Antonopulos knows the deepest, darkest secrets of the Broncos, the real goings-on at Dove Valley. He’s not talking — even about the famous competitive streak of close friend Pat Bowlen. “I really could tell you some stories about that, but I…
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Paul Klee: 83-year-old high school coach of Broncos coach Vic Fangio: “I love him like my own son”
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ENGLEWOOD • Just as Vic Fangio opened the door at Broncos HQ to 130 high school coaches from all over Colorado, a man on the other side of the country was thinking about him. His own high school coach. Jack Henzes is 83. Coach Henzes…
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Paul Klee: Across the street from NBA playoffs, Derrick White’s career turned — in RMAC title game for UCCS
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • The night before the 2015 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title game, UCCS had a problem: star guard Derrick White was in the hotel swimming pool, testing a sore ankle. Thought we’d have to limit his minutes, UCCS coach Jeff Culver says now. D-White…
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Paul Klee: Nuggets rookie compared to Kevin Durant by teammate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • He’s the tall, skinny dude, over there on the bench. Sharp dresser, quite pretty, probably rocking a designer T-shirt under a blazer, inevitably close to Isaiah Thomas. You know, Michael Porter Jr. Remember him? “If he gets his back right and he gets…
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Paul Klee: Air Force can forecast a bright future against No. 17 Nevada
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There’s a mouse in the house! “Wait a minute. That’s one of our recruits!” Air Force men’s basketball coach Dave Pilipovich joked on Monday as a rascally rodent raced under his chair during a press conference. There’s the 17th-ranked Nevada Wolf Pack here on Tuesday!…
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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…