DENVER — On a night when the Broncos honored legends of their past, John Elway’s focus remained on the present — and not the long-term future, as he dismissed the notion of being sellers with the trade deadline approaching on Oct. 29. “No one from our side is on the trading block,” he said. “We’re going to try to…...

Anything can happen during #Pac12AfterDark, but picking the Colorado Buffaloes to beat the Oregon Ducks might be a stretch.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — It took the arrival of Rich Scangarello as offensive coordinator to truly unlock the potential of what Andy Janovich can bring to the offense. And it took only 34 snaps to see it. That’s the number of offensive plays Janovich has had in two regular-season games and the preseason loss at Seattle. In between, Janovich missed…...

During Colorado’s long wait between games two and three, the seasons managed to change from fall to winter and back to fall. Colorado, eh? As the Avs sat around waiting for their next victim, the NHL continued on. In Vancouver last night, highly-touted defenseman Quinn Hughes finally scored his first NHL goal in his eighth NHL game. The Canucks announcers…...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Drew Lock might start for the Broncos at some point in the 2019 season. Whether he does could depend on if the Broncos can turn their win last Sunday into a winning streak to climb back into the race. If they can’t, the public clamor for Lock to play will undoubtedly rise. But this isn’t necessarily…...

1. Will Barton had a couple of finishes at the rim that provided some hope that he was back to trusting himself to absorb contact and contort is body without overthinking it. When healthy, Barton is a crafty finisher at the rim. He’s great at using his off hand and hanging in the air long enough to twist and turn…

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Alexander Johnson had the game ball and the football from his first regular-season interception stowed away as he prepared to return to Denver from Los Angeles late Sunday afternoon. But the football on his mind was the one he didn’t have — the football thrown in his direction by Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers during the fourth…...

If love is a step before marriage, then Phillip Lindsay went one step further than Brock Olivo ever went when talking about Andy Janovich.

For the first time in a long time, scoring hasn’t been an issue for the Denver Broncos. Well, in the first half, that is. Emmanuel Sanders explained why on Tuesday.

Paul Millsap couldn’t wait to get to Sin City this summer. It wasn’t the year-round pool weather, or craps tables that were summoning him to the Las Vegas Strip. Millsap wanted a front row seat at Thomas & Mack Center to see firsthand whether or not a certain Nuggets rookie’s talk was cheap. “Mike’s been talking all year, so…...

Welcome to “What makes this play great,” a brand new series I will be doing here at DNVR in which I break down in detail a single play, moment, or sequence from a Denver Nuggets game and explain all of the subtle details that you might’ve missed the first time around. This series was inspired by a fantastic YouTube channel…

Up until Sunday, Johnson and Purcell each waited years for their opportunity to start in the NFL. Now, thanks to their own play, they’ll only have to wait a week for their next.

CARSON, Calif. — This was the market correction. By myriad metrics, the Broncos’ production did not reflect that of an 0-4 team. Their flaws certainly didn’t mean they should be 4-0 or 3-1. But their attributes, when balanced with the areas in need of improvement, reflected a team that should have been .500 or 1-3. The expected win-loss ledger given…...

Sitting at 0-4, Fangio had seen enough—it was time to make changes. And the changes paid off in spades.

CARSON, Calif. — This time, the Broncos had enough of a cushion to withstand a rally. This time, the giveaway with a 14-point lead wasn’t the snowball that became an avalanche. This time, the turnover in the red zone didn’t lead to a quick score … instead, it led to an end-zone interception for linebacker Alexander Johnson. In the Broncos’…...

Nathan MacKinnon is a superstar. Mikko Rantanen is right behind him. The world seemingly expects Cale Makar to cure cancer in between shifts. It can be easy to forget the steady presence of Gabe Landeskog, who plays third banana on the league’s most dominant top line. It’s a new year but the same old captain for the Avalanche as he…...

Preseason nothin’. As Colorado got off to the kind of start it wanted with a 5-3 win over the Calgary Flames, it was the player who did not play for the Avalanche in the preseason that drove the bus. Mikko Rantanen, who agreed to a six-year contract during Colorado’s final preseason game last weekend, reminded everyone except a couple of nerd…...

While there’s certainly no replacing Bradley Chubb, if Malik Reed is anything close to Shaq Barrett, as Von Miller suggests, the Broncos will have yet again struck gold on undrafted rookie pass rushers just five years apart.

Torrey Craig is the unsung hero of the Denver Nuggets. He is among the best on-ball defenders on the team, a sneaky good rebounder, and accepts his low usage role. But he’s also stuck in the middle of the most fierce position battle on the team: small forward.  What will it take for Craig to have a successful season? And…...