Author: Mark Kiszla [email protected]
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Mark Kiszla: With devil on his shoulder, Saint Patrick returns to torture Avs that have lost Roy’s championship swagger
Eight years after abruptly walking out on Colorado, Patrick Roy returned to Ball Arena like he owned the joint, with a healthy arrogance as large as the “A” in the Avalanche logo at center ice. Roy peered Monday into the rafters, where his No. 33 hangs in a place of honor not far from three…
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Mark Kiszla: Broncos have destroyed Mile High magic with bad starts to home games that are tragic
The Broncos have developed a nasty habit that must stop. Instead of being tough to beat at home, they’ve become hard to watch. “It’s not easy looking at the scoreboard,” Denver quarterback Bo Nix said Sunday, “and seeing the deficit.” Nix admitted the Broncos dug an ugly hole far too deep to escape during a…
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Mark Kiszla: Buffs show they’re not ready for prime time in heart-breaking loss to Kansas State
BOULDER – In a sport where a team’s television ratings now rival a top 25 ranking in importance, Coach Prime is the No. 1 reality TV star in college football. “Sometimes you lose in life, you get your butt kicked and you just have to take it,” CU coach Deion Sanders said early Sunday morning,…
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Kickin’ it with Kiz: Where did the championship mojo of the Avs go? And is major change coming to this talented core?
The Avs need a goalie. – T.F., Boulder Kiz: The championship window for the Avalanche is not closed, but this team has lost its championship swagger. Hey, stuff happens when you’ve underperformed since winning the Stanley Cup in 2022. Where to place the blame? Maybe it’s on the front office’s steadfast belief an elite goalie…
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Mark Kiszla: The AFC West isn’t big enough for both Broncos’ Sean Payton and Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh to be happy
Born in 1963 and raised in the same old school of coaching, Sean Payton and Jim Harbaugh are two ornery cusses rasslin’ for the same football glory. It’s my belief Harbaugh is the coach that Broncos CEO Greg Penner and the team wanted to hire. But Payton is the one that said yes to Denver’s…
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Mark Kiszla: CU’s Travis Hunter is college football’s most dominant two-way player since Champ Bailey—maybe even Jim Thorpe
Hunter is two of the top 10 players in college football. “Well said,” adds Coach Prime, who whole-heartedly agrees
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Mark Kiszla: You better Bo-lieve that Nix likes being compared to feisty Ferris Bueller by Sean Payton
Quarterback Bo Nix might be too young to quote classic lines from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” but I’m here to tell you Broncomaniacs all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude. With graying legends from the franchise’s first Super Bowl team back in Denver to bear witness, Nix took his first steps toward becoming…
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Mark Kiszla: In his 18th football season at Air Force, has coach Troy Calhoun run out of magic?
The challenge confronting Calhoun smells like big trouble.
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Kickin’ it with Kiz: Chokeland Faiders fans lurking in Colorado are NFL rebels without a clue
When Taylor Swift writes her next rock song, it will be her first.
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Deion Sanders or Sean Payton? Which coach is the long-term solution? | Friday Faceoff
Paul Klee and Mark Kiszla do battle in The Denver Gazette’s weekly Friday Faceoff