Tag: Mark Kiszla
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Mark Kiszla: These DU Pioneers can look like champs or chumps, all in span of 24 hours
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 every night, the way they did Saturday in a 6-0 rout of St. Cloud State? “Why is it a $64,000 question?” DU coach David Carle, playfully turning the question back…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Why the Broncos have more than Stiddy and a prayer in AFC Championship Game
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 “Lord, Please Deliver Me from a Pick-6” Winston. I see the Broncos beating New England 24-16 with backup QB Jarrett Stidham. – Danny, the sports rabbi Kiz: Amen, brother. But…
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Mark Kiszla: With Bo Nix out, can J.K. Dobbins carry Broncos past Patriots to Super Bowl?
Grinning as mischievously as a Cheshire cat, J.K. Dobbins might be fixing to mess up the New England Patriots. Or maybe he’s merely messing with all our heads and hearts. Either way, Dobbins ain’t saying. Under strict orders from the team, his lips are sealed. How large does the Cheshire smile of Dobbins loom over…
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Mark Kiszla: How a random dude in Target can lead the Broncos to Super Bowl
When the Broncos’ starting quarterback sneaked away to Target for a quick shopping trip, the peeps in America’s football-craziest city didn’t know him from a six-pack of toilet paper. “Nobody noticed me,” Jarrett Stidham said Wednesday. By Sunday afternoon, when Stidham breaks the Broncos huddle against New England in the AFC Championship Game, Denver might…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: After ditching Buffs, did Jordan Seaton leave his heart (award) in Boulder?
All the departure of offensive tackle Jordan Seaton in the transfer portal says about the CU football team is the Buffaloes don’t have the money Seaton will get somewhere else. Nothing more. – G.B.L., got no beef Kiz: Seaton is the face of a sport that’s broken. A guy the Buffs naively called “The Franchise”…
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Mark Kiszla: Sean Payton must stop the fuddy-duddy football for his Broncos to win the Super Bowl
In the fourth quarter of his professional life, Broncos coach Sean Payton has slowly learned that playing it conservatively only speeds the clock toward the final gun, when the chance to win a championship will be dead and gone. “They say as you get older, maybe you don’t drive in the rain at night,” Payton…
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Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix can absolve John Elway of his worst football sin
All that stands in the way of the Broncos doing the impossible is a lone dream killer. The Broncos have nothing to fear in the AFC playoffs except Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, the last true superhero standing between them and Super Bowl Sunday. Want to know the best reason to believe the football gods…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Can’t wait to have a latte (or two) with my new bestie Sean Payton
Kiz, you and Sean Payton have got to quit meeting like this. – Walt, giving peace a chance Kiz: Love is in the air! How folks jumped to the conclusion that Payton and I don’t get along is beyond me. Sure, Payton celebrated the Broncos earning the No. 1 seed last weekend by walking into…
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Mark Kiszla: Why Josh Manson’s fists of stones pack such a big wallop for Avs
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 jump over the boards, he took the ice, itching for a fight. Why? “To spark us,” said Manson, explaining his not-so-subtle motive for starting (and finishing) an old-time hockey fight…
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Mark Kiszla: Super Bowl win would put Bo Nix in legendary company of Tom Brady
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 NFL playoffs? Through 14 NFL seasons of playoff frustration, John Elway endured until his 37th birthday before hoisting the Lombardi Trophy on those joyous evenings in 1998 and 1999. At…