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Denver’s latest food hall Broadway Market set to open in February
By: John Wenzel, The Know
Broadway Market, the new Denver food hall from teams behind the Stanley Marketplace and Avanti Food & Beverage, has an opening date and details on its tenants in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Formerly a Tony’s Market location, the 15,000-square-foot space was already set up as a multiple-counter shop — with a...
Man who hit tree while night skiing at Granby Ranch dies
By: The Associated Press
GRANBY, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a man died after he hit a tree while night skiing at Granby Ranch in northern Colorado. Related Articles Fatal opioid overdoses surpass fatal crashes Teen who died in I-70 crash Wednesday night identified The Granby Police Department says the man, whose name has...
Avalanche near Aspen claims life, Pitkin County sheriff says
By: Kirk Mitchell
An avalanche near Aspen has claimed the life of an unidentified person, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. The gender and age of the victim have not been released. Mountain Rescue Aspen volunteers and Pitkin County sheriff’s deputies are responding to the avalanche area, which is at Markley Hut,...
Kiszla vs. O’Halloran: Are the NFL’s overtime rules unfair and need to be changed?
By: Ryan O'Halloran, Mark Kiszla
Kiz: Tom Brady thinks the odds were stacked against him. Yeah, life’s tough for Mr. Gisele Bundchen. But as the AFC championship game entered overtime, the teams met at mid-field for a coin flip. Heads? Brady wins. And the Chiefs lose, without ever touching the football. When New England won...
Australian Open: Tennis players can cause quite a racket by smashing rackets
By: Howard Fendrich
MELBOURNE, Australia — Way behind in a match he soon would lose, Alexander Zverev leaned forward in his Australian Open sideline seat to repeatedly, and violently, crack his racket against the court with a reverberating THWACK — one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times in all, before throwing...
Senior Bowl Primer: Players the Broncos should watch this week
By: Ryan O'Halloran
A primer on Senior Bowl Week, which begins Tuesday with the weigh-ins and continues through Saturday’s game in Mobile, Ala.: CALLING ALL CORNERS The Broncos have veteran Chris Harris, 2018 rookie Isaac Yiadom … and not much else at the cornerback position. Isaiah Johnson, Houston Johnson certainly checks the “size”...
Video shows moose chasing skiers Saturday at Breckenridge Ski Resort
By: Eli Pace, The Know
Hoping to warn others about the dangers of moose, this weekend a Summit County woman posted on Instagram a video she captured of one charging skiers and snowboarders Saturday at Breckenridge Ski Resort. “You can’t plan for this kind of stuff; you can’t make this stuff up,” said local photographer...
Girls high school wrestling division gets one step closer to reality in Colorado
By: Brad Cochi
Clarissa Batrez is one of several girls who will wrestle as members of the first St. Vrain Valley School District team that is, and will continue to be, open to any SVVSD girls wrestler. After a regular week of practicing with the Erie boys team, Batrez entered the Mead wrestling...
AP men’s college basketball poll: Tennessee moves to No. 1, Duke drops to No. 2
By: John Marshall
Top-ranked Duke went down early in the week. No. 2 Michigan and No. 4 Virginia, the last of Division I’s unbeaten teams, both fell over the weekend. In all, six top-10 teams lost. Tennessee kept rolling amid chaos across the AP Top 25. The Vols are the new No. 1...
Mikaela Shiffrin shows she’s ready to take over from Lindsey Vonn
By: Andrew Dampf
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — A passing of the torch moment. A generational transformation marked by a veteran’s tears and the unbridled joy of youth. Call it what you want, it seemed like destiny played a role when Mikaela Shiffrin won what could very well turn out to be Lindsey Vonn’s...
NFL to play 4 games in London in 2019, 1 in Mexico City
By: Joe Nguyen
NEW YORK — The NFL will play four games in London next season but did not say which would be at Tottenham’s delayed new stadium and which would be at Wembley. The league also said Monday one game will be in Mexico City — Kansas City vs. the Los Angeles...
Lunch Special: Denver sports live chat with Mark Kiszla
By: Mark Kiszla
(function(d, s, id) {var js,ijs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//embed.scribblelive.com/widgets/embed.js";ijs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ijs);}(document, "script", "scrbbl-js"));It's Monday, which means it's time for the Lunch Special live chat! Sports columnist Mark Kiszla will be at noon here to answer your questions about all things Colorado sports. The chat window is open, so feel free to submit your questions early....
Cost of living, expense of hiring workers contribute to health care costs in Colorado, report finds
By: Jessica Seaman
Colorado hospitals have come under scrutiny in recent months for the high bills patients face when seeking care at their facilities, with lawmakers aiming to address the issue this session. Now, the Colorado Hospital Association has released its own report analyzing health care costs in the state. It found that the state...
Denver’s MLK Day Marade: Live updates from downtown
By: Tynin Fries
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade (a hybrid of the words march and parade) will take place Monday. The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. and run from City Park to Civic Center Downtown Park in downtown Denver. The Marade has run since 1986 and will honor the...
Blown call leaves Saints crushed and NFL facing another officiating controversy
By: Cindy Boren
No sooner had the kick-in-the-gut-loss of the NFC championship game ended for the New Orleans Saints than the NFL was on the phone with coach Sean Payton, ringing him up to talk about what everyone else was discussing: officiating. It wasn’t so much the game or the performances that had...
If Denver Public School teachers vote to strike, school nurses may follow suit
By: Lance Hernandez
The Denver Classroom Teachers Association will resume its strike vote on Tuesday. But teachers aren’t the only ones who may decide to strike. Nurses with DPS are covered by the teachers contract. If teachers vote to strike, the nurses may follow suit. The teacher’s union has been trying to negotiate...
Lindsey Vonn to decide future in coming days
By: The Associated Press
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn is going to take “the next couple/few days” to decide her future. Battling pain in both of her knees and after failing to finish better than ninth in three races this weekend, Vonn said Sunday that immediate retirement from ski racing “is a possibility.”...
Tony Romo was biggest star of the AFC championship game
By: Cindy Boren
Take a bow, Tony Romo. The AFC championship game belonged to you. The CBS color analyst, who has impressed viewers with his clear vision of what’s going on — and what’s about to go on — in his two seasons in the booth elevated his game, delivering commentary that was...
