Tag: Mark Kiszla
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Mark Kiszla: How to fix the nonsensical mess that is the college football playoffs
On the dumbest day of the entire college football season, the legendary Nick Saban and Georgia coach Kirby Smart said something really intelligent. “It’s all B.S.,” Smart told Saban, during a spicy interview that aired Saturday on ESPN. I couldn’t agree more. If college football had a brain, the win-or-go-home thrill of the playoffs would’ve begun…
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Mark Kiszla: Could Nix and Maye become the Manning-Brady rivalry that Broncos Country has been missing?
We’ve gone back to the future, with the AFC once again a wicked-hard turf war between the Broncos and Patriots, just as football gods Peyton Manning and Tom Brady intended. “No team can go through so many years, over and over, with losing. You’ve got to do something about it,” Denver offensive tackle Garett Bolles…
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Mark Kiszla: Knock the Broncos’ wins and call ’em frauds. ‘Doesn’t mean we have to listen,’ Courtland Sutton says. ‘Or care.’
The Broncos just might be the worst 10-2 team in NFL history. And they don’t care. Yes, they hear the noise. The Broncos have been cursed with the F-word as frauds and dissed by the computer rankings that rate them no better than 12th in ESPN’s Football Power Index. Know what has become the new…
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Mark Kiszla: In their year of living dangerously, can the Broncos make Super Bowl run without a running game?
LANDOVER, Md. — Do the Broncos ever do anything the easy way? Every victory smile is covered in a Maalox mustache. Oh, this heartburn hurts so good. It took the Broncos overtime and the big, bad hand of linebacker Nik Bonitto to thwart a two-point conversion for them to beat Washington 27-26 Sunday. “We don’t…
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Mark Kiszla: Unable to lighten Nikola Jokic’s load, Nuggets can’t win championship this way
For all the changes around Nikola Jokic, when he’s not on the court, the Nuggets look like the same team that got Michael Malone fired as head coach. The Nuggets insisted everything would be different this season. It’s not. They’re living a lie. The faces have changed. But the song remains the same. And Jokic…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Maybe Deion Sanders should pack his Louis Vuitton and move Buffs to the Sun Belt Conference
While I think the boost in attendance and revenue to the CU football program is great, the performance is the same as in years past. I don’t see us improving much as long as this Deion Sanders staff is coaching in Boulder. – Jeremie, adventurer Kiz: When the Buffs hired Sanders, he had CU faithful…
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Mark Kiszla: Why Deion Sanders needs to study the lessons of Bill McCartney to sustain CU football success
A regal new statue of Bill McCartney outside Folsom Field can either haunt Deion Sanders like a ghost or be a guide for how the CU football team can return to glory. “You’ve got the right man. I promise you, you do. And I’m going to prove it to you,” Sanders vowed last week, clapping…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Why do so many fans want to see quarterback Shedeur Sanders flop in his first NFL start?
When Shedeur Sanders gets his first NFL start for Cleveland against Geno Smith and the Raiders, I see two franchises that clearly do not have their QB of the future on the roster. – Luke, Oregon outlier Kiz: Doomed to finish no better than last place in the AFC West, the Raiders passed last spring…
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Mark Kiszla: Broncos shout message with 22-19 victory: Chiefs, your kingdom’s done
The Chiefs’ Kingdom came tumbling down, a football dynasty crushed by an orange wrecking ball. What we saw Sunday, when the Broncos beat Kansas City 22-19, was more than the biggest win in 10 years for a franchise that not only needed to revamp its roster, but rebuild a city’s faith. And a thrilled congregation…
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Mark Kiszla: Why no Denver athlete in last 40 years has worn the ‘C’ as well as Gabe Landeskog
It’s back! And the secret to the Avalanche regaining its championship mojo can be found in Special Sauce No. 92. Want to know why the Avs tower like Pikes Peak over everyone in the NHL’s power rankings? Start with the we’re-in-it-to-win-it vibe established by captain Gabe Landeskog. “I don’t want to say I told you…