The Broncos' season has been a study in late-game comebacks and never giving up. Denver is prolific at it: the Broncos tied a franchise-best record with 14 regular season wins and captured the AFC's top seed thanks to recording comeback wins in the double-digits -- a historic pace. That made the ending of AFC Divisional … Continue reading Game(Day) In the Life: Broncos Playoff Edition
The Thunder took six NBA Finals games and an additional two and a half quarters to prove it, but Oklahoma City rounded into championship form just in time. With thousands of Thunder supporters shaking the Paycom Center stands in approval, Oklahoma City responded to a slight halftime deficit in Game 7 by burying the underdog … Continue reading Opinion: Thunder’s Finals win gives Oklahoma City, an afterthought in pro sports for decades, its well-deserved shining moment
The Baltimore Orioles’ 19-5 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Friday is as jarring a result as regular season baseball gets. A playoff entrant in each of the past two seasons and the home of arguably the American League’s most decorated and exciting collection of young talent, the Orioles hardly profile as a team … Continue reading Opinion: The Baltimore Orioles are baseball’s most disappointing team, but the Rockies’ 8-42 start establishes MLB’s true rock bottom
What better way to dive into the 2025 NFL regular season schedule, released earlier this week, than to plan the ultimate 18-week NFL road (and plane) trip?
Nuggets reserve guard Russell Westbrook tore down the Ball Arena court on Saturday evening, initiating a fast break off a steal with no one between him and the basket. He made sure to put an exclamation point on the coast-to-coast play, too, dunking so emphatically that he earned a technical foul for two prolonged swings … Continue reading Opinion: The Denver Nuggets are winning the margins in the NBA playoffs and making serious noise
Welcome to the Riker Report, where I open up my game day files each week and share a quick-hitter observation or development from each of the eight NFL divisions. Week 2 continued the mayhem from the regular season’s opening week, with comebacks, shocking blowouts and defensive masterclasses shaking up the balance of power in the … Continue reading Riker Report Week 2: From fumbled pitches to fumbled leads, mayhem continues in season’s second week
I’ve asked plenty of questions in my time as a journalist, but none like this one: have any current NASCAR drivers been inspired by Lightning McQueen? I posed that question after taking a picture with a life-sized model of the iconic animated Pixar character in the NASCAR Hall of Fame, and the answer from NASCAR … Continue reading 2024 APSE Summer Conference Takeaways: What I learned from the pros about the future of sports journalism
DENVER — Super Bowl Sunday was memorable this year, and for me, it came with plenty of reflections about all things NFL after spending a season on the inside. From July training camp to Week 18 in January, I served as the digital media intern for the Denver Broncos, with responsibilities ranging from uploading press … Continue reading Mountain Time: Reflecting on my season on the inside with Broncos Country
In sports, the athlete is always moving: running, shooting, passing, swimming, catching. The same could be said about my own history as an athlete moving between different sports. Over a span of 19 years, I’ve participated in an organized league over 40 times, with no sport exceeding 12 of those seasons. Those sports represented an … Continue reading Nostalgia Blast: The Athlete
The following column was published in Wootton's Common Sense newspaper. Communication is essential to any sports team. But to the occasional spectator, the athletes on the field may appear to be speaking a foreign language. From playcalls to formations to moves to gear, the language of our sports teams is so strange and confusing … Continue reading Varsity Letter: Varsity Vernacular
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