Horse Tracks 7/8/08

by mdierk on Jul 8, 2008 9:07 AM MDT in Horse Tracks Comment 10 comments

Here is a rested, sunburnt, post-holiday edition of Horse Tracks. Enjoy!

Mike Kils of the Denver Post answered mail and shared his toughts. See here

Kils also talked about the "X" factor this season. See here

Woody Paige had an article about Pat Bowlen and the credit the owner deserves. See here

Bill Williamson has an article about Ryan Torain. See here

This story is a little old, but former Bronco Marcus Nash suffered a broken neck playing for the Dallas Desperados of the Arena Football League. While he never panned out for our team, it is scary when something like that happens. Please pray for him. See here

Barack Obama will be giving his acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium. Let's hope the field isn't too torn up after that. See here

NFL News

Looks like the Steelers are trying to change up their ownership. See here

Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick have reunited for NBC Sunday night show. See here

Guru's "favorite" player, Brett Favre, keeps hitting the news wires. See here

How the mighty have fallen....Michael VIck has filed for bankruptcy. See here

That's all I have. Enjoy your day!

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Dadgummit mdierk

21 minutes before I post my Favre article, right when I’m starting the editing, dadgummit! Meh!! At least we didn’t use the same link. I feel for Marcus Nash. I heard about that when I was watching another Arena game, but I never realized he was a former Bronco. And since when was Bill Williamson getting his facts straight?! Seriously, that was a good read!! What is going on in my world?!

Why do I live in Kansas City?

by papigrande on Jul 8, 2008 9:37 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

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Why do I live in Kansas City?

by papigrande on Jul 8, 2008 9:37 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

At least great minds think alike.

I appreciate the restraint of profanity.

fader nation is a conquered nation

by mdierk on Jul 8, 2008 11:08 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Politics and sports don't mix.

Putting Limbaugh (a former KC Royals radio guy) on MNF was frowned upon, even though he is pretty knowledgable about football (he was a finalist for ABC before they went with Miller). (Folks can differ on if the Rush / ESPN issue was out of line, or misrepresented. I don’t want to go into that here). Putting Olbermann on Sunday Night Football is equaly insulting to the other half of the country.

I have no clue why the networks or sports cable people feel they have to insult their audiences. Really, entertainment figures and political figures shouldn’t be in the booth. Has anyone else heard that Justin Timberlake is hosting the ESPY awards? Bizzare. What’s next? Rosie O’Donnell in the booth? Bill O’Reilly?

The exception I would make would be if a president (of either party) dropped in the booth for a quick interview. Other than that, just have sports guests and sports commentators.

"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" Defoe

by Steve Nichols on Jul 8, 2008 10:01 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

HT you are so right....

Sadly, lots of sports commentators are in line with the MSM and they share thier views. I know that I liked Olbermann when he was on Sportscenter with Dan Patrick (it was entertaining and not political). After he left, I watched some of his other shows since and he was/is terrible.

Thankfully I am able to hit the “mute” button and listen to Dave and Dave when the game is on. I only watch the Broncos anymore so I don’t have to hear these other people.

ESPN needs to go back to thier roots. Some days you can’t tell if you are watching sports or E!

fader nation is a conquered nation

by mdierk on Jul 8, 2008 10:33 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why

Does the Post even try and be a pro-Denver paper? Now they are digging up a traffic violation on Marshall. WTF? I am so tired of the constant slamming of the Broncos by that rag. Man, I was the Broncos I would freeze out the Post. Screw them. They are an embarassment to the city of Denver.

by broncfanstuckinsd on Jul 8, 2008 1:55 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I can't let

you throw klis under the bus with the rest of the paper. We haven’t had a mailbag this reasonable in a long time, and his answers are dead on.

But now that I have Klis safely out of the way, please continue to mercilessly bash the Post. :)

Mountains, forest, sea: these render man fierce, but yet do not destroy the man.

by Jeremy Bolander on Jul 8, 2008 5:50 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ok

Will concede he is pretty good. Now correct me if I am wrong. But since Shefter left the Bronco coverage has been anti-bronco? Plus it seems to me that the Avs cant do no wrong to them. Dont get me started on the anti-carmelo crap they spew., I just got it. They hate the Broncos and Nuggies. I keep trying to tell my mom to get the news off the net and quit wasting money on that crappy paper. But she wont.

by broncfanstuckinsd on Jul 8, 2008 5:58 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

In fairness...

I agree that the Post is awful, and that Klis is good. On the other hand, this isn’t “digging up” a story. It happened. And while the offense is minor, I want to hear about before learning that the commissioner ruled on something we found out about at the last minute.

Really now. The kid has messed with domestic issues and DUI (both jailable offenses) and almost horseplayed his way into ending his career. The fact is, after all of these “misjudgements” the kid is stupid enough to turn around and get pulled over for getting out of his lane while driving without a valid license. What has he done that he hasn’t been caught on? At what point is he going to stop jeapordizing his team with stupid behavior? These things aren’t minor when you are responsible to a team, and when you are risking a multi-million dollar salary. This just shows ignorance; plain and simple.

At what point do the members of MHR have to stop making excuses for this guy? Is he going to help us out a little?

"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" Defoe

by Steve Nichols on Jul 9, 2008 2:09 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

X factor

The article only touches very briefly on an intriguing idea, whihc is that Xanders was hired specifically to help Shanny think outside the box when it comes to the cap/draft/free agency dynamic element of building a team.

Veddy, veddy interesting…

Mountains, forest, sea: these render man fierce, but yet do not destroy the man.

by Jeremy Bolander on Jul 8, 2008 5:55 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs