Tag: Mark Kiszla
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Mark Kiszla: Is Denver worst 7-2 team in NFL? ‘Drama ain’t nothing new to us!’
HOUSTON – The Broncos live on the brink but refuse to blink, and that might make them the worst 7-2 team in the NFL. Think they care? “It’s better than being 6-3,” defensive end Zach Allen said Sunday. Hard to argue with that logic. Denver staged yet another fourth-quarter comeback against Houston, leaving the Texans…
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Mark Kiszla: How the heck did odd couple of Sean Payton and George Paton became brothers in orange?
We expected Sean Payton and George Paton to be frenemies. We were wrong. Heck, in the beginning, nearly three years ago, this relationship of the P&P Boys seemed doomed to end with them PO’d with each other. Instead, the coach and general manager of the Broncos have become brothers in orange. It might be the…
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Mark Kiszla: Broncos need tough cowboy at NFL trade deadline to put hurtin’ on Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs
Every loud tick of the clock toward the NFL trade deadline shouts the same order to the Broncos: Beat the Chiefs! The time is now for the Broncos to knock Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City off the AFC West throne. And there’s your hint on how Denver can do it. Put a hurtin’…
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Mark Kiszla: J.K. Dobbins puts NFL on notice: ‘I want to be No. 1’ rusher in league
With a 500-kilowatt smile hiding that angry boulder on his shoulder, J.K. Dobbins rumbles through the NFL on a revenge tour fueled by a secret. “The dream is to get a ring,” Dobbins declared late Sunday afternoon, after he ran for 111 yards and Denver did Dallas dirty, by the wicked score of 44-24. When the…
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Mark Kiszla: The all-star Nikola Jokic has always wanted but never had? It’s Aaron Gordon
If Aaron Gordon doesn’t fall back to earth, he’s going to end the longest drought of Nikola Jokic’s illustrious basketball career. As you might have heard, Jokic has won three MVP trophies and taken home a championship ring in his 10 NBA seasons, but has never played alongside an all-star in Denver. That streak ends…
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Mark Kiszla: Shocking arrest of Chauncey Billups indictment of how gambling has corrupted sports we love
The legend of “Mr. Big Shot” took a wicked hit from the FBI. After the Feds busted an illegal poker game where Chauncey Billups was seated at the table, the greatest basketball player in Colorado history stood accused of money laundering and wire fraud on behalf of a team of nefarious gentlemen known as “Flapper…
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Mark Kiszla: Turn down the heat! Broncos are most emotionally exhausting team in the NFL
When the going gets weird, the Broncos turn wacko. “Every game we play is weird,” Denver coach Sean Payton said Wednesday. Well, a football team does tend to take on the personality of its coach. Payton is combative, condescending and if you scroll Russell Wilson’s timeline, the man who sets the tone from the Denver…
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Kickin’ it with Kiz: The last thing Rockies need in next GM is another pencil pusher
My No. 1 priority for the Rockies’ next general manager is that he has no previous association with the Rockies. – Chruffman, Boulder Kiz: If the Rockies actually have a way of doing business, 323 losses in a three-year stretch suggest their way of building a winning team might be all wrong. That harsh truth…
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Mark Kiszla: The Broncos have a Bo Nix problem. QB is victim of his own success.
Bo Nix needs to stop playing quarterback like he’s trying to please his father. Broncos coach Sean Payton is not Nix’s daddy, who raised the QB right but maybe wound him a little too tight. “I’m definitely tough on myself,” Nix said Wednesday. “It was how I grew up, how I was raised. My dad…
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Mark Kiszla: Can U.S. striker Haji Wright become the Ted Lasso story of the 2026 World Cup on American soil?
COMMERCE CITY – When Captain America went down with an ugly thud on the soccer pitch, his countrymen desperately needed a new hero to step up. Can Haji Wright become the feel-good Ted Lasso story that the U.S. men’s team has been itching to tell? With U.S. superstar Christian Pulisic nursing yet another injury, Wright…