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LINCICOME: Punishment has little rhyme, reason

Nothing to match Brett Favre, of course, but the Broncos do have their own little carnival to manage, and more damaging in the long run than whatever happens over in the NFL (the National Favre League).

SAUNDERS: 1510 AM isn't in clear just yet

Mile High Sports Radio is getting a higher profile. Now the station needs a more professional sound to go along with its upcoming Nuggets and Avalanche coverage.

RINGOLSBY: Trade winds were only a whisper

Major League Baseball's trading deadline came and went Thursday with very few major deals, leaving teams to deal with the status quo.

LINCICOME: Those Goose bumps are a thing of the past

The road to baseball's attic is long, if you can find the road. How to get here? Be the best that ever was. Or, in the case of Goose Gossage, exceptional enough to endure a nine-year torment while voters waffled and others took bows.

KRIEGER: Lynch ponders possible role change

It's a little more complicated than this, but put yourself in John Lynch's cleats for a minute: The same club that urged you to come back now wants to take away half your snaps.

LINCICOME: Broncos venturing into unknown

This training camp opens with less optimism than some others, there being so many unknowns, or to put the new roster in Rumsfeldian terms, there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and three deep at some positions.

LINCICOME: An icon forged out of grit

Any judgment of Rod Smith nearly always begins with the word "undrafted," as if it were Smith's fault the entire National Football League was stupid.

DENTRY: You keep spurs; I'm going fishing

I'm retiring. I'm leaving the greatest job on Earth and the newspaper that let me do it for 21 years. You might say I'm going fishing, and you might be right.

RINGOLSBY: Gossage's long wait perplexing

Goose Gossage will finally be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday. Now that the time has arrived, Gossage said, it was worth the wait.

KRIEGER: Nuggets' logic all over the board

In NBA circles, Nuggets vice president Mark Warkentien has a new nickname. Actually, he has two.

LINCICOME: NL Waste is a sight for shameless eyes

How handy it is to belittle the National League West. It easily becomes the NL Worst or the NL Weakest or the NL Waste. I prefer the last one myself, since I made it up.

DENTRY: Sportsmen push Hermosa area for wilderness status

Like much of the last of Colorado's best country, the Hermosa Creek drainage north of Durango is hardly a secret.

KRIEGER: Rockies earn their misery

Admit it: For a minute there, you thought your miracle Rockies were starting their long-awaited charge to the top of the National League Worst. ... Unfortunately, with the Dodgers in town and a chance to gain ground on a division rival, the Rocks had to come up with a starting pitcher not named Cook or Jimenez.

SAUNDERS: Cass let Broncos fans have final say

Alan Cass proudly shared a job description with the late Bob Martin, Larry Zimmer and Dave Logan. He was a voice of the Denver Broncos.

LINCICOME: Norman's inevitable fall botched an alluring story

There was pain in this Open, too, not the illustrious kind when Tiger Woods defied good sense and the limits of his sport to win the U.S. Open in June, but this was the kind that comes with not knowing at just what point Greg Norman would blow another chance.

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