May 8th, 2010 with Comments closed

On This Date: When the Nuggets Were the Hottest Ticket

For this bygone tale of yore, it’s all the way back to ’94 …

Turned on and turned loose by the Nuggets’ Game 5 shocker over the Seattle Supersonics a day earlier, Denver’s basketball fans rose early on a Sunday morning and snatched all available tickets for their subsequent series against the Utah Jazz. All three [...]

May 7th, 2010 with Comments closed

On This Date: Bailey’s First Practice

This is the first in a daily series that will look back at Denver sports history. Without further ado …

2004: Champ Bailey practices for the first time as a Bronco

Were I to lapse into cliché, I would write, “It doesn’t seem that long.” Poppycock. It does — maybe even longer.

The only player [...]