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Mark Kiszla: First big move to get Broncos to Super Bowl will require Sean Payton to swallow his enormous pride

Updated 2 days ago

Sean Payton considers himself a funny guy, but this ain’t no joke. Are the Broncos truly serious about winning the Super Bowl? Of course. Will...

Mark Kiszla: Take the points, knucklehead. Worst call of Sean Payton’s career cost Broncos a trip to Super Bowl.

Updated 4 days ago

When the going gets tough, Broncos coach Sean Payton gets cute. And football is a game where cute gets you beat. This 10-7 loss to...

Mark Kiszla: These DU Pioneers can look like champs or chumps, all in span of 24 hours

Updated 5 days ago

Here’s the $64,000 question for a talented DU hockey team that sometimes isn’t worth two bits: Why can’t these Pioneers kick butt and take names...

Kickin’ It with Kiz: Why the Broncos have more than Stiddy and a prayer in AFC Championship Game

Updated 5 days ago

By my count, coach Sean Payton has a 17-4 record in games with backup quarterbacks Taysom “Running Man” Hill, Teddy “Two Gloves” Bridgewater and Jameis...

Woody Paige: Without McMillian’s pick, Broncos wouldn’t be a game away from Super Bowl LX

Updated 5 days ago

Mark Kiszla: With Bo Nix out, can J.K. Dobbins carry Broncos past Patriots to Super Bowl?

Updated 1 week ago

Mark Kiszla: How a random dude in Target can lead the Broncos to Super Bowl

Updated 1 week ago

Mark Kiszla: The heist and the heartache. A Broncos playoff classic turns to devastation.

Updated 2 weeks ago

Paul Klee: Sean Payton and a backup QB for a Super Bowl berth? Sounds like a Payton kind of challenge

Updated 2 weeks ago

Kickin’ It with Kiz: After ditching Buffs, did Jordan Seaton leave his heart (award) in Boulder?

Updated 2 weeks ago

Woody Paige: Sorry, Bills: Namesake would be a Bronco booster

Updated 2 weeks ago

Mark Kiszla: Sean Payton must stop the fuddy-duddy football for his Broncos to win the Super Bowl

Updated 2 weeks ago

Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix can absolve John Elway of his worst football sin

Updated 2 weeks ago

Woody Paige: Mapping out Broncos smoothest path to Santa Clara

Updated 3 weeks ago

Kickin’ It with Kiz: Can’t wait to have a latte (or two) with my new bestie Sean Payton

Updated 3 weeks ago

Kiz, you and Sean Payton have got to quit meeting like this. – Walt, giving peace a chance Kiz: Love is in the air! How...

Mark Kiszla: Why Josh Manson’s fists of stones pack such a big wallop for Avs

Updated 3 weeks ago

With fists of fury, Avs defenseman Josh Manson got the rough-and-tumble part of the Gordie Howe hat trick out of the way early. From his first...

Mark Kiszla: Super Bowl win would put Bo Nix in legendary company of Tom Brady

Updated 3 weeks ago

Before we issue Bo Nix a badge as the new sheriff in town, shouldn’t he have to earn his star with a victory in the...

Mark Kiszla: What CU sports needs more than a bright new athletic director is a billionaire sugar daddy

Updated 3 weeks ago

BOULDER – The first thing eager new CU athletic director Fernando Lovo must learn is the massive gap between wishful thinking and what it actually...

Mark Kiszla: Why the Broncos have the advantage on the sideline with Payton, but not under center with Nix

Updated 4 weeks ago

Woody Paige: Paton has bounced back during tenure with Broncos

Updated 4 weeks ago

Mark Kiszla: Why the Broncos need Bo Nix to play like Russell Wilson to win the Super Bowl

Updated 4 weeks ago

Kickin’ It with Kiz: Injury wrecked the Nuggets’ season, but won’t stop Nikola from being the Joker

Updated 4 weeks ago

Mark Kiszla: Frauds? That’s the wrong F word. Broncos flawed in ways that must be corrected to win Super Bowl

Updated 4 weeks ago

Woody Paige: Despite Broncos’ fortune, now it’s time to help themselves

Updated 1 month ago

Kickin’ It with Kiz: Could top-seeded Broncos get dissed as home underdog in playoffs?

Updated 1 month ago

Mark Kiszla: No-Show Bonitto a ghost of his dominant self in Broncos’ bah-humbug loss to Jags

Updated 1 month ago

Kiszla: Nuggets, Rockets deliver holiday basketbrawl behind Durant-Brown feud

Updated 1 month ago

Woody Paige: Broncos, Jags set to battle for a little respect

Updated 1 month ago

Kickin’ It with Kiz: We comin’? They leaving. CU stars dump Coach Prime for greener pastures

Updated 1 month ago

These young men leaving the CU football program want wins. Wins equal NIL money. – Joe, ninja-like tendencies Kiz: Maybe it was Deion Sanders’ magnetic...