Willie Nelson

I am a Broncos fan. I believe in the Mile High Magic and bleed Orange and Blue. I celebrate the Orange Crush, the Drive, and the Mile High Salute. I create the Thunder, share the Common Dream, and will forever be a proud citizen of Broncos Country. Broncos Country Citizen #3729

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  • 01:43 AM ET  11.08
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This post has been a long time coming. I've been saying for months that I am going to post a blog dedicated to educating the masses about the real impact of the so-called "thin air" in the Mile High City, and I've finally decided to get around to posting it. Through the years, everyone from the casual baseball observer to the most ardent sabermetric statistician has postulated that many offensive statistics at Coors Field can be attributed in large part - sometimes even completely - to playing in the high altitude. You are about to find out that, while there is definitely some truth to that,…
  • 04:27 PM ET  08.29
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___________________________________________________________________________I have to imagine that July 23, 2007, was a day that had a similar resonance for a lot of fans of the Colorado Rockies. Though I wouldn't remember the date without looking it up, I can still remember the day. I turned on my TV to see the headline on ESPN's bottom line: "AA Tulsa Drillers 1st-base coach Mike Coolbaugh killed by line drive last night". When I first saw it on the ticker, I remember thinking that it was sad and unfortunate. Then I thought, "Wait a minute! The Drillers? That's the Rockies AA team!" Though…
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Yesterday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame veteran's committee took a monumental step in correcting a couple of mistakes that have been made numerous times over by the Hall of Fame voters. The committee anounced its two nominations for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the 2010 induction. The two names are Dick LeBeau and Floyd Little.Both men are long overdue for Hall of Fame induction. Lebeau's resume as a player and a coach speaks for itself, and I'm not going to say too much about him. I never had the privilege of seeing either player play football other than the occasional…

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