Tag: milo bryant
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Opinion: Veteran Pittman is Broncos’ best RB option
ENGLEWOOD • Signing Michael Pittman made Travis Henry expendable. Actually, it was Henry’s lack of commitment to football that made him expendable to the Denver Broncos. Henry had the talent to lead the NFL in rushing. He obviously mastered the talent of not caring enough, too. Henry’s loyalty to things not football has given Pittman,…
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Opinion: Defending champion happy out of spotlight
Brad Bryant is a likable person.Bryant, the defending U.S. Senior Open champion, has a dry – almost unassuming – and selfdeprecating sense of humor that easily puts one at ease.You can talk with Bryant. You can talk with him and believe that he’s genuine in what he says when he’s talking back. That’s unlike many…
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Nothing going the Rockies’ way
DENVER • There should be mulligans in baseball. The Colorado Rockies could stop now, put us and them out of misery and have a do-over. There’s nothing going right for the defending National League champions. Nothing. Blame Clint Hurdle. He’s the one managing largely the same team that went to the World Series in October…
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Opinion: Rockies’ ace Francis is following his team
DENVER • The Colorado Rockies are going from bad to worse, spiraling down, kind of like their opening day ace, Jeff Francis.Sure there are injuries, and we’ll save those for a later column. But this season isn’t going anywhere near expected for the defending National League champions. And Francis, who tied the club record with…
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Opinion: Confused by Avs’ move? You’re not alone
DENVER • Bear with me for a moment, this gets a little confusing. The Colorado Avalanche just brought back a coach in Tony Granato who wasn’t good enough to keep the head coaching job in 2004 though he had the best winning percentage, .647 (72-33-17-11), of any Avalanche coach. At first thought, maybe that’s cool.…
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Opinion: Fatherhood changes Barmes on, off field
DENVER • So many have tried to explain what has gotten into Clint Barmes. The answer is simple, but it’s not in statistics. It’s not in some new revelation bestowed by the hitting gurus. Barmes is at peace with who he is as a baseball player and in a large part with who he is…
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Opinion: Cutler will have to manage disease
ENGLEWOOD • Jay Cutler left the Denver Broncos headquarters Monday with three boxes and a bag of prepared meals. He had a backpack and what looked like a drink container. The little black bag wasn’t visible. Still, it was there. Somewhere. It’s going to be there for the rest of Cutler’s life. It’ll be at…
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Patriots should have been punished more for spying
The e-mail came during the NFL playoffs. Only now is there a halfway decent response to the inquiry. The words in the e-mail were to the point. The questions asked were simple enough, but the answer is anything but simple to explain. “I need your professional help to explain the New England Patriots to my…
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Opinion: Injuries weren’t only reason Colorado lost to Detroit
DENVER – Typically the mantra of a team facing elimination in the playoffs is something about winning a game.Can’t win four in a row until you win one. But there are usually reasons why the losing team continues to lose. So even winning one becomes a problem.It was a huge problem for the Colorado Avalanche…
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Opinion: Plenty of reason Karl should stay as coach
DENVER – Should George Karl stay or should the Denver Nuggets coach be shown the door? The question is being asked from newspaper columnists to radio and television announcers. There are those who have their minds made up: “One die-hard fan’s crusade to salvage the 2007-08 Denver Nuggets season.” Those are words from the Web…