Tag: Paul Klee
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Klee’s Corner: Broncos Country hit the jackpot with Walton-Penner ownership group
Broncos Country hit the jackpot with the Walton-Penner ownership group. It’s corporate as all get-out, but so is everything else and they’re at the top of the wealth chain. The latest extraordinary endeavor is an exhaustive series of surveys and research efforts that serve as both an homage to team history and a step toward…
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Paul Klee: Her Alabama roots explain CU Buffs’ Jaylyn Sherrod, the heart and soul of Sweet 16 team
BOULDER — There’s a man down in Birmingham by the name of Coach Otis. There’s a woman who goes by Coach Carol. They don’t work together, but together they help explain Jaylyn Sherrod. Lord knows the CU Buffs women’s basketball star requires an explanation. Such as: How does a 5-foot-7 (shoes on, hair up) Alabama…
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Paul Klee: NCAA Tournament champ will need a superstar, and Gonzaga has Drew Timme
Drew Timme speaks for all of us. “Man, I’m getting old,” Timme muttered inside the Gonzaga locker room as he slipped off his Nike sneakers late Sunday night at Ball Arena. Timme’s 22 going on 14. It only seems like he’s worn that goofy ‘stache as a Zag for nine years. No. 3 Gonzaga’s 84-81…
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Klee’s Corner: Gonzaga weighs options in conference realignments and Drew Timme’s ‘moneymaker’ mustache
Proof Gonzaga is still Gonzaga is found not only Sunday when the Zags play for an eighth straight berth in a Sweet 16. Proof is at the end of the bench in a man named Jun Seok Yeo. A future NBA draft pick from overseas waiting his turn to develop into a Zags All-American? Gosh,…
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Paul Klee: Creighton’s 7-foot-1 star, Ryan Kalkbrenner, is biggest Nikola Jokic fan in Denver
Ryan Kalkbrenner, a mountain of a man living the high life in the Rockies, also is a man of few words. Pro tip: Get the Creighton star center talking about Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic. “He’s such a fantastic player,” Kalkbrenner was telling me after the 7-foot-1 junior made like the Joker in No. 6 Creighton’s…
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Paul Klee: Behind the scenes with the Grand Canyon Antelopes at the NCAA Tournament
The shoeless Antelopes arrived at the dance without dancing shoes. Weaving through north Denver en route to a practice session Wednesday, Grand Canyon’s bus pulled up to the Regis University Field House checking all the boxes of a tall NCAA Tournament tale. —A coach, Bryce Drew, still a March hero exactly 25 years after his…
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Paul Klee: Denver wins the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend, Arizona wins the NCAA title
Spotting the winners and losers of the NCAA Tournament bracket draw is always a lesson in futility, at least on Selection Sunday itself. Nobody knows. Ask again in three weeks. You and I and the rest of Denver are the big winners here, though. That’s the only sure thing. Because this year’s field is so…
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Paul Klee: Sean Payton is exactly what the Broncos need
ENGLEWOOD — The adults are in charge of the Broncos again. Now go to your room! “I don’t anticipate the (Mile High) crowd having to count down the play-clock,” Sean Payton jabbed Monday after he was introduced as the authoritative 20th coach of the Broncos. Seated between franchise CEO Greg Penner and general manager George…
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Paul Klee: The Coach Prime movement is coming
BOULDER • As Deion Sanders held court on a stage, because Coach Prime is always center stage, CU Buffs 1990 national champ Charles Johnson stood in the back of the room, having flashbacks. C.J., I asked, does Coach Prime remind you of anyone? Say, the man himself, Bill McCartney? “God and gangsta,” C.J. told me. “It’s…
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Paul Klee: By hiring Sean Payton, Broncos try to buy their way back to NFL relevance
The Beatles lied. You can buy love. Can the NFL’s deepest pockets buy a winner? The Broncos search committee of Rob Walton, Greg Penner, Carrie Walton Penner, Condoleezza Rice and general manager George Paton learned a valuable lesson in its first hire. If a preferred candidate politely decides to wait out the process, throw a…