Award-winning sports columnist Woody Paige writes two columns a week for The Gazette, and appears regularly on the ESPN sports talk show, 'Around the Horn.'
Read the latest from him here.
Woody Paige
The Nuggets became the bold, bravura Bubble-blasters again Tuesday night.
For the want of a nail, the kingdom was lost, the Broncos keep discovering ad infinitum.
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In a bland, not grand, opening, played out before a cardboard crowd and a gathering resembling a family reunion, the Broncos experienced death not by inches, but by a foot.
Columnist Woody Paige writes: Bluntly, the devastating injury to Von Miller was a rally-decimater that will be improbable to overcome for a playoff slot.
Drew Lock’s buzzwords should be “To postseason ... and beyond.’’
The Broncos’ president of football operations and the coach were discussing the merits of the team’s quasi-established 53-player roster. Yet, the franchise’s top two football men must be evaluated themselves at season’s conclusion, columnist Woody Paige writes.
Denver’s professional sports teams did not bow, but stood united the past week.
The Broncos would have drubbed duh Bears Saturday night to present Victor Fangio with a birthday gift victory over his former team.
It was a great afternoon for Colorado sports fans as the Nuggets and Avalanche both went into overtime on channels folks could see, columnist Woody Paige writes.
Denver's bubble and defense burst in the second half of a loss to the Miami Heat in an NBA reopener in Orlando, Fla., columnist Woody Paige writes.
The Broncos just got a big break. The cuts won’t be as deep and difficult. They’ll possess a record Mile High 69 players this regular season.
Starting the truncated season Friday in Texas and ending abruptly Sept. 27 in Arizona, the Colorado Rockies will be fortuitous if they’re not the worst team in the National League West.
The Denver Nuggets aren’t worried about finding Nikola Jokic. But the NBA and all the other leagues must be worried about finding a season. Those odds are worsening every day.
For the first time in American history and the annals of the Broncos, the Rockies, the Nuggets, the Avalanche and the Rapids, all five of Denver’s major-league professional sports franchises could be playing in August and perhaps even on the same day.
If the Colorado Rockies want to learn how to flourish under the new wacky EI rule, they should talk to folks in Colorado Springs and Grand Junction who are familiar with the concept. They’ve been there, done that.
Columnist Woody Paige notes two former Super Bowl quarterbacks are available would improve the Broncos’ depth and QB quality quotient, but they aren’t being considered.
Baby Huey has transformed into Slavic mythical god Stribog.
There’s decrying in baseball.
On the night before Vic Fangio was scheduled to do an interview on Zoom with the Colorado sports media Tuesday, the Broncos coach took out a legal pad in his home office and meticulously wrote what he wanted to say about the current national crisis.
The 2020s are the 1960s with a COVID-19. Everybody blames everybody else. Thus, I wonder again 52 years later: Why not come together? Why not civility? Why not the United States of America?
Within the vast realm of possibility, the Nuggets could open the playoffs against the Rockets in a “home” game at Disney World, and the Avalanche might be the host of the Canucks in the playoffs on their “home’’ ice in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena.
Ifs, ands and buts, but no butts, will dictate whether the ol’ ballgame will open by the Fourth of July.
The Broncos’ Boss is beguiled by tall quarterbacks and tight ends.
May 2, 1983: John Elway was acquired in a trade. May 2, 1999: John Elway retired. Saturday was the anniversary of both monumental events in the Denver Broncos’ history.
On Saturday, after the NFL’s weird, wacky, wonderful draft concluded, John Elway characterized the Broncos’ orange-picking of 10 new young players as “tremendous’’ and will add “explosiveness’’ to the team.
