Tag: Mark Kiszla
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Mark Kiszla: Her name is Hope. She’s quiet, but scores loud goals for the Buffs
BOULDER – CU soccer sensation Hope Leyba speaks softly and carries a big kick. On a Colorado summer evening when the clouds hovering near the Flatirons lit up like a Monet painting at sundown, I went to watch the greatest player in the 30-year history of the Buffaloes’ soccer program practice her art. And Leyba…
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Mark Kiszla: How big a football geek is Sean Payton? Chiefs fixing to find out.
With Broncos coach Sean Payton, the hay is never in the barn, because he’s maniacally ripping apart every haystack for a needle. Nobody in the NFL likes story time better than Payton. And everybody knows it. In fact, Broncos CEO Greg Penner once told me what Payton does best is win football games. But a…
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Mark Kiszla: How John Elway knows way Bo Nix can win his first NFL ring
With quarterback Bo Nix and the boys in Super Bowl-or-bust mode, this team is setting up Broncomanics to lose their ever-lovin’ minds. We’re talking about a full-scale, orange-and-blue meltdown. Can you say freak out? I’m not saying the Broncos can’t win the Super Bowl. In fact, I was crazy enough to have predicted more than…
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Mark Kiszla: For CSU coach Jim Mora and his 91-year-old father, winning never gets old
FORT COLLINS – As his son grabbed the Bronze Boot with gusto, and CSU students stormed the field in celebration of a resounding 35-13 Rams victory over archrival Wyoming, Jim E. Mora watched with a twinkle in his eye that was the very definition of paternal pride. Sweet dreams for a football family are made…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Kroenke rep discussed buying Rockies before Penners got deal done
Stan Kroenke should’ve bought the Rockies instead of the Angels. — Ray, woulda, coulda, shoulda Kiz: We might not know much here at Kickin’ It Headquarters, but we absolutely, positively know this for certain. As recently as the early months of 2025, a man trying to broker a sale of Charlie Monfort’s share of the…
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Mark Kiszla: Bad JuJu turns into miracle man when Buffs needed quarterback most
ATLANTA – On a southern night stickier than a cockroach stuck in a molasses trap, CU quarterback Julian Lewis was a hot mess. Until it mattered the most. “He didn’t shrink in the moment,” Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders said Thursday. “He stood up and did his thing.” Standing shoulder to shoulder with his CU teammates,…
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Mark Kiszla: If Bo Nix is on nobody’s top 10 list of NFL quarterbacks, who cares?
Bo Nix and John Elway don’t belong in the same sentence, except in one essential way that makes them both winners. As a young NFL quarterback, Nix is nothing special for three quarters. But with the game on the line in the final 15 minutes, he’s Elway. Or a young prince in the mold of…
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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…