Reidy’s Sports Roundup
“And where the Kroenkes have made a strong statement with keeping George Karl around, they’ve made more of a languid hand gesture with your Colorado Avalanche and the firing coach Joe Sacco.”
Articles ft. the Avalanche
Avalanche land first pick, Popeye’s kid is coming
The Avalanche have secured the first pick in the upcoming NHL draft via the lottery held tonight. This is huge news for the club which fired its head coach yesterday. Seth Jones, the son of Popeye Jones who was playing for the Nuggets when Seth was born, is widely considered […]
SACCO SACKED!
It looks like Avalanche fans won’t have Joe Sacco to kick around anymore. According to several credible accounts we follow on Twitter, the overseer of several miserable seasons of lackluster hockey in Colorado is finally the victim of his own wild lack of success. Joe Sacco has been fired. Oh, […]
The Colorado Rockies might be our only hope.
Welp. The Nuggets lost again. They trail one game to two in their first-round series with, of all the miserable opponents, the Golden State Warriors. The Nuggets displayed in defeat nearly all of the traits that have consistently plagued them in the playoffs. New year – same old Denver Nuggets […]
Colorado goes 0-4 on “Terrible Tuesday”
“Don’t look now but our Denver sports chariot is morphing back into a pumpkin. On one frigid April day the teams we cheer for collectively nosedived. Terrible Tuesday did all it could to snuff out our fantasies” Read More ….
Losing my Avs religion
“Sacco is like the PR guy from the latest cruise line to strand its customers in a feces filled stink barge, bobbing like a corpse out in the Mediterranean. Firing Sacco is akin to putting a band-aid on a gushing circular saw wound – and something he’d welcome like the […]
Aggregation, aggravation and boots on the ground: reporting is endangered in the new media age
“Today reporters, beat writers and columnists – all of the people with their boots on the ground in sports media – are competing with themselves. Other kinds of online publishers provide sports news as well and, thanks to bandwidth, these sites can be re-report scoops almost as quickly as they […]
Let Sakic save the Avalanche
“Currently, Sakic holds the title of executive advisor with the Avalanche. It’s time for the Avalanche to change that title to general manager.” Read more
Baseball? What baseball?
“Elvis Dumervil’s errant fax transmission has been bigger news than anything the local baseball club has been doing – and by no small margin.” Read more
Radio Row: Tom Nalen makes the “grown ups table” a lot more fun.
“Nalen’s tone is easy. He’s naturally funny and his voice smiles through the radio. He seems to enjoy being in the studio. I detect that Shapiro is enjoying himself more on air, too, as a result of working with Nalen, even if the ex-pro does make him uncomfortable sometimes with […]
