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By Paul Klee, The Gazette

DENVER - The Nuggets stink, and most of them don't seem to give a flip. Too many of them are here as hired mercenaries. (Whoops. I wrote that already, back in November. OK, let's try this again.) Ty Lawson was arrested for careless driving, speeding and suspicion of DUI around 1...

BY PAUL KLEE The Gazette

ENGLEWOOD — The preparation was over, the hype in full buzz. But first things come first, you know. Here, two days before the Broncos would host the Colts in an AFC playoff game, three of the men at the core of the Broncos operation had one more stop to make. John Elway, Peyton...

By Paul Klee, The Gazette

DENVER — You can tell someone is not from Colorado if they test Interstate 70 traffic on Friday afternoon, their ski trip scheduled for a weekend. Likewise, you know someone is not from here if they value neckties over Nalgene bottles, if they collect baseball cards but not lift...

By Paul Klee paul.klee@gazette.com -

DENVER — I wonder if the Broncos just made the same mistake the Nuggets did. Yes, it's fair to wonder. I wonder if front-office arrogance trumped on-field competence. I wonder if Twitter muscle pushed a good man and a better coach out of town too soon. I wonder if the Broncos...

By Paul Klee, The Gazette

ENGLEWOOD — Sunday night as most of Colorado was barfing up its dinner, the door swung open to the Broncos locker room at Sports Authority Field. John Elway, the GQ-styled general manager, was first to emerge from the losers' abyss. He wore a snazzy orange tie, of course, and the...

By PAUL KLEE The Gazette -

ENGLEWOOD — Put the 3-iron away, Danny. John Elway hits a driver off the first tee box at Cherry Hills. Elway's stack of poker chips is only small because he's forever all in. Each time Elway pulls into his designated parking space at Dove Valley, I'm surprised it's not a tank. Or a...

DENVER - Mark Cuban was there. If we're lucky, he'll buy the Colorado Rockies, too. The family of Jusuf Nurkic was there, all the way from Bosnia, five layovers later. Dirk Nowitzki, Rajon Rondo and Tyson Chandler were there, in sweats. None of the trio played for the Mavericks in a...

Paul Klee, The Gazette

When media suggested Jared Allen and Dominique Rogers-Cromartie, John Elway pushed a stack of chips to the table's center and snagged DeMarcus Ware and Aqib Talib. Tim Tebow? Nah. What's Peyton Manning up to? The Duke is a Don. When he replaces John Fox with the next coach of the...

By Paul Klee, The Gazette

DENVER — The kid was crying, and he isn't the only one. He wore a No. 18 Broncos jersey appropriately sized for a 3-year-old. The tears fit any age. One day Marshall Manning will see the bigger picture, the vast, brilliant masterpiece his father drew in 17 seasons as an NFL...

Paul Klee, The Gazette

Bye, bye to the bye week 1 I don't like the bye week. I don't think it's an advantage. Sounds crazy, right? Well, not if you document Peyton Manning's experience with a bye week. His teams are 2-3 in the divisional round following a bye. It's not just Manning's teams, either, that...