January 19, 2021 Hey, self-righteous anti-lottery crowd ... LIGHTEN UP 
The
Mega Millions jackpot is up to $850 million. The Powerball jackpot is up to $730 million. The Colorado Lotto jackpot is up to $2.6 million. Muse about any of that and the automatic, kneejerk, lamely repetitive and predictable
reaction from many is: Keep reading here January 16, 2021 For heaven's sake, stop (fooling) around with Avalanche
top line 
Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen post-game.
They were not asked about the reuniting of the top line and whether they would prefer to leave it alone. This isn't going to be long, because what I have to say is
quite simple.
Avalanche coach Jared Bednar should stop (fooling) around with his top line. Keep reading here January 15, 2021 Upbeat Dorrell ready to do his part to address Pac-12
image issue 
"I'm thinking, Terry." As the Colorado Buffaloes move on from their surprising 4-2 season -- yes, it still was
surpising and praiseworthy despite the two consecutive losses to close it out -- one of the major challenges is clear. Karl Dorrell and his
staff will have to sell not just their program, campus and culture. They'll have to credibly sell the Pac-12 itself
to recruits and anyone else involved in creating or buying into the league's image. Yes, that includes difference-maker prospects
also seriously considering programs from other Power 5 leagues. The Scenic overlook on US 36 -- that first look (down) at
Boulder -- can only go so far. Keep reading here January 14, 2021 So when I asked Avs if still a home-ice advantage,
they said...  
Jared Bednar
Devon Toews  
Matt Calvert
Tyson Jost
No fans. Artificial
crowd noise. Music so loud -- or at least seemingly so loud in the near-empty Ball Arena -- the players' mothers should have
been banging on their doors, telling them to TURN THAT DOWN! Keep reading here January 12, 2021 What Joe Sakic said when asked if this team has reached Cup or Bust ... and has it really been 25 years? 
Mile High Sports Magazine Does the Avalanche have to win the Stanley Cup ... or feel shame? Keep reading here
January 10, 2021 Impeachment: We can't let him -- or his enablers -- get away with it 
Read it here
January 8, 2021 Tommy Lasorda and the Summer of '70 
Tommy Lasorda, Bobby Valentine, Steve Garvey,
Bill Buckner, Tommy Hutton, Bill O'Brien. After
his Thursday death, memories of Tommy Lasorda are flooding in from the baseball world. I'm not going to try to compete
with the anecdotes about his long and colorful tenure as the Dodgers' manager, or detail his life and career as if I'm on
the Obit Desk. This goes back
to having crossed paths with him at a couple of junctures. In the Summer of '70, I was a kid working for the Pacific Coast League Eugene
Emeralds. Lasorda was the Spokane Indians'
fiery manager. Thirty years
later as a journalist, I was his sole fellow passenger on a corporate jet flight from San Francisco to Denver and spent the
two hours chatting with -- "interviewing" isn't the right word -- Lasorda for what turned out to be two Denver Post columns in June 2000. If you want to get ahead of the story, here are those columns. (Note how primitive newspaper web sites could look in the early years after Al Gore invented the Internet.) Part One Part Two Now back
to the Summer of '70. Keep reading here
January 3, 2021 Hoping a full Cup parade -- is possible. Might as well be in Denver, right?  
Jared Bednar raising the Kelly
Cup as a player with the South Carolina Stingrays and
the Calder Cup as coach of the Lake Erie Monsters I'm probably going to keep saying this until I get it right. The Avalanche will win the Stanley Cup this season. The issue is: Can
there be a parade? Keep reading here January 2, 2021   Floyd Little made the Broncos. And I'm not talking about
cracking the roster. Keep reading here
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