Author: Paul Klee Paul

FORT COLLINS – As she climbed to the top podium, the one reserved for the state champion, Sydney Buckley did a very Sydney Buckley thing. She tried to pull the runner-up to the top step, alongside her, arm in arm. It made for the perfect capper to a remarkable high school swimming career: If Sydney…

SAN DIEGO – Fun’s over, Broncos. Time to buckle up and get down. Welcome, Super Bowl hopers, to the rated R portion of the schedule. As in, Rough (and Tumble). “One game at a time,” Von Miller said. Good, safe idea. The next four are against the Chargers, Chiefs and Patriots. If the Broncos were…

DENVER – This thought arrived on Saturday, as my dad was catching and releasing another brown trout into the Arkansas River. I would like to see my dad release 1,000 more trout into the Arkansas River. Or 10,000, if Orvis ever decides to sponsor a father-son fly-fishing team, just because we’re nice guys. I would…

DENVER – This one’s for John, and with John. In 1997, the season after the Broncos lost a heartbreaker to the Jaguars in the playoffs, the Broncos won their first six games. They lost their seventh. They won the Super Bowl. In 2013, the season after the Broncos lost a heartbreaker to the Ravens in…

ENGLEWOOD — Indianapolis is a kid, laying out her clothes on the first day of school. The city is hoping, wishing, praying it can make one final first impression on the cutest boy who ever walked these hallways: He won’t forget us, will he? So the city is laying out its Sunday best for the…

DENVER – Three weeks before Army Staff Sgt. Liam Nevins was killed in Afghanistan, he had the opportunity to return to the United States. That’s sometimes what happens when a Green Beret in the Special Forces is shot in the arm. They get a choice: Stay overseas and let it heal, or go home. “Going…

DENVER – Did Eagles coach Chip Kelly get his football schedules mixed up? Here’s what mine says: Eagles at Broncos, Sports Authority Field, Sunday. Here’s what another one says: Ducks at Buffs, Folsom Field, next Saturday. That’s the only way to rationalize what Kelly was thinking when he challenged one of Colorado’s football teams to…

DENVER – Aside from stinking up the AFC West for the past decade, what’s the nicest thing the Raiders have done for the Broncos? Those friendly Raiders are kind enough to appease thousands of Tim Tebow fans by returning their favorite son to the Rocky Mountains for “Monday Night Football.” Only this time he wears…

DENVER – Late Thursday night, his Broncos teammates tripping over TV cables and wet towels in their squished locker room at Candlestick Park, Trindon Holliday escaped. It’s what he does. Rolling a suitcase, wearing a suit, no tie, Holliday snuck onto the bus before a single media member could ask a dumb question. Actually, not…