Northfield’s Elian Oliva wins 2025 Gold Helmet Award with physicality, speed and glizty 5.02 GPA

The Denver Post (Preps) 12/14 1:30A Kyle Newman

Elian Oliva s rise to high school football stardom started with getting kicked off the field. It was the summer before his sophomore season, and the Northfield linebacker was at the CSU Pueblo camp...

A letter from Elian Oliva, winner of the 2025 Denver Post Gold Helmet Award

The Denver Post (Preps) 12/14 1:29A The Denver Post

Winning this award means more to me than any statistic or headline ever could. Not just because of the award s connotations, but the fact that it is a culmination of the supporting people in my life,...

Broncos-Packers scouting report: How will Broncos’ front handle the rampaging Micah Parsons?

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/14 1:00A Luca Evans

Packers (9-3-1) at Broncos (11-2) When:  2:25 p.m. Sunday Where:  Empower Field at Mile High Stadium TV/radio:  CBS, 850 AM/94.1 FM Broncos-Packers series:  There s not a long history of this inter-conference matchup, with the Broncos and Packers...

Avalanche Journal: NHL’s rash of overtime games needs a solution

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/14 1:00A Corey Masisak

The NHL loves the parity in the league, but too much of it can make a parody of the standings. There has been a rash of games going beyond the allotted 60 minutes of regulation early in the 2025-26 season. It s a symptom a significant league-wide...

NHL’s rash of overtime games needs a solution: Three-point games

The Dever Post (Avalanche) 12/14 1:00A Corey Masisak

The NHL loves the parity in the league, but too much of it can make a parody of the standings. There has been a rash of games going beyond the allotted 60 minutes of regulation early in the 2025-26 season. It s a symptom a significant league-wide...

‘Be where your feet are’: Inside Broncos WR Courtland Sutton’s quest for mental mastery

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/14 12:45A Luca Evans

In the summer, Chad Morris came to watch some old friends dance in Denver. He saw Bo Nix and Courtland Sutton maneuver on the grass at the Broncos facility during organized team activities (OTAs) in...

How Nuggets are navigating injuries to keep cooking on offense with Peyton Watson, Spencer Jones...

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/14 12:45A Bennett Durando

The levers of offense around Nikola Jokic haven t been pulled quite as automatically or instinctually as usual in recent weeks, but that hasn t caused the machine to malfunction. The Nuggets churn...

Grading The Week: Avalanche need to avoid first-round dogfight vs. Dallas, Quinn Hughes in Stanley...

The Dever Post (Avalanche) 12/13 4:37A Sean Keeler

Confession time: The puck heads on the Grading The Week (GTW) staff have probably called the Presidents Trophy worse things than any of your relatives have called any of the last five U.S. presidents. And we d like to take all of it back. Well,...

Keeler: When Colorado wrestling team suffered crash in Lakewood, three towns opened hearts, wallets:...

The Denver Post (Preps) 12/13 3:51A Sean Keeler

A wrestling coach is the smartest person in the room, until his wife walks in. So before Cutter Garrison floated an idea to his boss, he ran it by Terrica, his better half, at the dinner table. What if we just gave the money to Central? The...

Nuggets’ road success is why they will contend for NBA championship: Renck

The Dever Post (Avalanche) 12/13 1:00A Troy Renck

Lost in the Broncos return to the NFL s uppercrust , overshadowed by the Avs record points pace , the Nuggets have been better on the road than The Rolling Stones. They clobbered the Kings 136-105 on Thursday night . It underscores why Denver can...

Trading Brenton Doyle might have to be part of new direction for Rockies

The Denver Post (Rockies) 12/13 1:00A Patrick Saunders

We baseball writers are a cynical bunch. That probably stems from long workdays, 162-game schedules, and too many nothing-burger quotes from multi-million-dollar athletes. So, call me surprised when, at last week s winter meetings in Orlando,...

Jonas Valanciunas for Dario Saric trade yielding lopsided results for Nuggets

The Denver Post (Nuggets) 12/13 12:45A Bennett Durando

Perhaps the most animated Nikola Jokic has been all season was in reaction to a bucket in which he played no part. Hidden at the end of the Nuggets bench , surrounded by a cohort of teammates five to 10 years younger than him Jalen Pickett, Zeke...

Report: Colorado Rapids to name Tottenham Hotspur assistant Matt Wells as head coach

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/12 7:50A Braidon Nourse

The Colorado Rapids will name a cross-town organizational rival as their next head coach. And still, it feels like a potential home run. The club is set to hire Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur...

Nuggets Podcast: Jamal Murray’s spectacular start and chances of finally making an NBA All-Star...

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/12 7:00A Bennett Durando, AAron Ontiveroz

In the dramatic and bittersweet return of the Nuggets Ink podcast, Matt Schubert and Denver Post beat writer Bennett Durando discuss: Jamal Murray s spectacular start to the season and his chances of finally making an All-Star Game If he s in Los...

Telluride owner threatens price hikes if ski resort ‘caves’ to union demands

The Denver Post (Sports) 12/12 5:45A Tiney Ricciardi

The cost of lift tickets at Telluride will rise if the southern Colorado resort meets its ski patroller union’s demand for higher wages, owner Chuck Horning said Thursday in a frank email to local businesses. The union, the Telluride Professional...