Author: Mark Kiszla mark.kiszla@denvergazette.com
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Only question is when Shedeur Sanders takes over as starting quarterback in Cleveland
Shedeur Sanders is the best quarterback on that Cleveland Browns team. Whether or not Sanders is a good NFL quarterback is yet to be seen. — M.M., surfing the net goofy style Kiz: In a reminder that what Cleveland does best as a football franchise is Browns down its leg, Deshaun Watson was inexplicably named…
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Mark Kiszla: Rockies kick loyal season-ticket holders where it hurts with absurd 14% price hike
Taking over daily operations of the biggest joke in Major League Baseball, it appears Walker Monfort has already learned his father’s meanest trick. How to kick loyal Rockies fans where it hurts most: The wallet. “We feel like enablers,” longtime season-ticket holder Rocco Dodson told me Wednesday. “It’s people like us who allow the Monforts…
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Mark Kiszla: Buffs sell soul, forfeit control of Coach Prime’s tired, fading act
Ralphie doesn’t run, and nobody at Colorado lifts a finger, until genuflecting to the great and powerful Coach Prime. Long before the Buffaloes handed him a $54 million contract he did not earn on the football field, CU sold its soul to Deion Sanders. Does anybody in Boulder have the — um — gumption to…
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Mark Kiszla: Is DeMar DeRozan too little, too late to save Nuggets from sad fate?
The grade for the Nuggets’ knuckleheaded attempts to regain championship form has improved from an F to a double D. His name is DeMar DeRozan. He is a heckuva player. Check that. Once upon a time, DeRozan possessed guard skills that made him a nearly perennial All-Star. But his star is fading. Double D is…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Why Broncos’ road to Super Bowl could be wicked and twisted
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Everybody in Denver is already crowning the Broncs as Super Bowl champions. Dude, please. I don’t care what scribes, radio honks or coaches say. Nix’s ankle is very suspect. Two relatively recent operations on a previously repaired ankle spell weakness and early onset arthritis. How all that affects his game remains to…
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After trading Peyton Watson, are the Nuggets wasting the Nikola Jokic era? | Friday Faceoff
Friday Faceoff: After trading Peyton Watson, are the Nuggets wasting the Nikola Jokic era? Mark Kiszla, sports columnist Answer: Oh, heck yes The Nuggets have quit. Given up on Peyton Watson. Flushed the Nikola Jokic era down the toilet. Slammed their championship window on the fingers of every loyal fan. Do I sound mad? Well,…
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Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix and Davis Webb can laugh all the way to a Super Bowl
In pursuit of a championship, Broncos coach Sean Payton has plucked an idea from the brain of the Mastermind. What does every great artist say? Steal from the best. Payton is an obsessive student of football history with an encyclopedic knowledge of plays that have altered the outcome of big games over the past 30…
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Mark Kiszla: Does Colorado have sorriest state of college football in the whole USA?
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There’s a black hole on the Colorado sports calendar. In our fine state, where Broncomania rages on, college football Saturdays have fallen. And I’m not sure if the CU Buffaloes, Air Force Falcons or CSU Rams know how to get back up. The shine on Coach Prime is fading to black, with television ratings for…
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Mark Kiszla: Has ESPN become too little sports and too much nonsense?
What does ESPN, the long-standing king of American sports, even stand for anymore? Well, we all know the “S” is for Stephen A. He’s everywhere. And too loud to ignore. It was funny when Stephen A. Smith was the little voice in your stomach peddling beef jerky. But when he drops hints that he would…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: It’s unfair to portray Greg Penner and Stan Kroenke as gold-diggers
You think Denver sports fans win as a result of a Walmart family feud? Greg Penner and Stan Kroenke both married Walton women. “Family Feud” is a TV game show hosted by Steve Harvey. — J., not easily impressed Kiz: Gotta admit it’s kinda funny to turn the marrying-for-the-money stereotype inside out, portraying Denver’s leading…