Mark Kiszla
Sports Columnist at The Denver Gazette
🇺🇸Sports columnist 🏈⛷️⛹️🏒at https://t.co/NQ2OH6QFng. Kickin’ It at sports venues in this dusty old cowtown since 1983. We're all knuckleheads.
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6 days ago |
denvergazette.com | Mark Kiszla
In all honesty, I am rooting for the Rockies to lose every night. I can’t think of a better way to spur meaningful organizational change, other than a Daniel Snyder type of scandal at the ownership level. – J.P., jilted baseball-loverKiz: So you’re the one guy in our dusty old cowtown who’s ecstatic with the Rockies. After an 8-2 loss Saturday to the New York Mets, Colorado will finish May a stupefying 40 games under .500. At 9-49 in the standings, your Rox Bottoms are on pace to lose 137 games.
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1 week ago |
gazette.com | Mark Kiszla
LAKEWOOD — Bruins by birth and brothers forever, Wyatt and Walker Rudden celebrated their last game together on a baseball diamond with dueling backflips. “A backflip,” Walker told me, “is something cool that not everybody can do.”Nobody does backflips and baseball with more flair than the Rudden boys. Cherry Creek High also did what it does best Saturday, when the Bruins won the 249th state championship in school history.
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Mark Kiszla
Friday Faceoff: What should be the first move of the Nuggets' next general manager? Mark Kiszla, sports columnistAnswer: End Josh Kroenke’s bromance with Michael Porter Jr.The Nuggets are at a fork in the road. Sure, they could continue rolling down the same Rocky Mountain way, with their core four in the back of a van driven by Josh Kroenke. But isn’t it about time we put an end to Kroenke treating the quest for another ring like a buddy movie?
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Mark Kiszla
During his first season as quarterback of our local NFL team, Bo Nix won back as many hearts in Broncos Country as Russell Wilson alienated in two years. Nix is one of us in a way Wilson never understood. Bo knows the thrill of sharing the Red Rocks stage with Brad Paisley, throwing out the first pitch at Coors Field and watching the magic of Nikola Jokic from courtside in Ball Arena. He ended the Broncos’ long playoff drought and beat the hated Kansas City Chiefs.
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Mark Kiszla
When they gathered for Miss Audrey’s 101st birthday party in April, the king and crown prince of the Kroenke sports empire smelled something rotten back in Denver. “We were together to celebrate my grandmother,” Josh Kroenke told me Wednesday.
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So you have a significant lead over Thunder in 4Q for 2 straight crucial playoff games. And you blow that lead twice. Might’ve helped to have veteran, playoff-tested head coach on bench in those situations. Just sayin’.
On night when Nikola Jokic was legendary, legendary wasn't good enough to beat OKC. This felt like a rite of passage for the Thunder. If they raise Larry O'Brien trophy in June, they will look back on this night in May as moment when they grew into champs. Column posted soon.
MPJ is playing hurt. MPJ is a warrior. But he shouldn't be out there. The problem? Nuggets have no trust in bench players outside of Russell Westbrook (when he's good, he's very, very good, but when he's bad, he's ...)
