Author: Mark Kiszla mark.kiszla@denvergazette.com
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Mark Kiszla: A star is born as Davis Webb leads Broncos offense in preseason rout
ATLANTA – The Broncos have everything they need for a Super Bowl run except a BarcaLounger. On game days from now through February, the team’s equipment crew can set up a recliner on the Denver sideline for Granpappy Sean Payton to let him take a load off his aching feet. Davis Webb has got this.…
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Mark Kiszla: Has prickly Sean Payton mellowed just enough to win Super Bowl with the Broncos?
ATLANTA — With the Broncos taking their B team to Hotlanta, there’s only one Grade A reason to watch this preseason NFL game. Will Denver run the damn ball and kick some butt? After getting pushed around for nearly a decade, Denver has assembled a championship defense and found a bona fide starting quarterback. Now’s…
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Mark Kiszla: How many championships will Walmart sports empire bring Denver in the next five years?
The best thing Denver sports has going for it isn’t Bo or Nikola, but the budding feud between Carrie and Greg versus Stan and Josh. The best sports city in America is being transformed by Walmart family values. Stan and Josh Kroenke own the trophies. But Greg and Carrie Walton Penner have the momentum. “Our…
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Mark Kiszla: Nuggets daring Peyton Watson to believe best place for his NBA career is anywhere but here
Peyton Watson is stuck between the Rocky Mountains and a hard place, valued too much by the Nuggets to give him away in trade but not enough for the team to show him the money. During a pivotal summer for a championship contender in decline, when it now appears everything was on the table for…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Hall of Fame should open its doors to these three Broncos
Mike Shanahan deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but selectors might be holding the salary-cap infraction involving his Super Bowl-winning teams against him. Karl Mecklenburg, a defensive Swiss army knife who was named NFL All-Pro three times, should be in Canton. — W.P., Henderson, Nev. Kiz: Nobody asked me, and I…
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Mark Kiszla: Will Camp Prime turn Buffs’ mercenary misfits into a band of brothers?
FOUNTAIN — Coach Prime stole a page from the gospel according to “Bear” Bryant to transform his mercenary misfits into a band of CU Buffalo brothers. “You (go) on trips … so you can unite, so you can build loyalty, you can build love, so you can get to know one another, so these kids…
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Mark Kiszla: Denver would be dumb to drag its feet on new Broncos stadium
ENGLEWOOD — After getting the broken-down Broncos back up and running toward the Super Bowl, the husband-and-wife ownership team of Greg and Carrie Penner is attempting to do something even harder. They want to give a city in slow decline its mojo back. Don’t mess this up, Denver. A blighted spot on the city map…
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Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix can shatter one achievement of John Elway and Peyton Manning
Tear it up this NFL season, and quarterback Bo Nix can shred the achievements of Broncos legends John Elway and Peyton Manning in a way that’s almost unfathomable. Money, money, money. You think the money in sports has grown to absurd levels? Then a quick review of the storied history of this QB-rich franchise might…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Is CU’s JuJu Lewis a QB controversy waiting to happen?
For the Colorado Buffaloes, it’s the season of quarterback JuJu Lewis, correct? Would he be the first CU player that could be considered a Deion Sanders creation? I don’t think it’s going to be a good season for the Buffs. — Greg, bracing for the worst Kiz: Not to go all birds and bees on…
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Is Bo Nix guaranteed to become a $50 million man for the Broncos? | Friday Faceoff
Mark Kiszla, sports columnist Answer: No There’s a $50 million question hovering over this Broncos’ season. Is Bo Nix a quarterback who can win the Super Bowl for Denver and punch coach Sean Payton’s ticket to the Pro Football Hall of Fame? I hope the answers are: Yes! But $50 million is a whole lotta…