For pure pandemic entertainment, it was hard to beat. The performance combined Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver (“You talking to me?”), Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (“You think I’m funny, funny how; how the ‘eff’ do you think I’m funny?”) and the late Heath Ledger’s Joker (“They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at […]
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Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Littwin: The political games have had their two weeks. Now it’s time to get back to athletes who have made their games real.
The day the Milwaukee Bucks remarkably refused to play an NBA playoff game — and I’m not sure everyone understands even now just how remarkable it was — came nearly four years to the day that Colin Kaepernick had taken his first knee. That protest would cost Kaepernick his career. It also set in motion […]
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Nicolais: Professional athletes are Bucking the system
For the second time this year, I watched live as an NBA game made history. Hopefully the most recent will also lead to specific, meaningful changes. In early March, I watched as the Denver Nuggets played the Dallas Mavericks in what should have been a midseason matchup. It turned out to be the last NBA […]
Posted inCartoons, Opinion
Drew Litton: Colorado, without sports, will go stir crazy
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
Posted inCOVID, News, Politics and Government
Should the Colorado legislature shut down because of coronavirus? The conversation is well underway.
Colorado lawmakers have begun discussing in earnest whether to temporarily shut down the state legislature to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. The debate comes as the outbreak increasingly disrupts activity at the Capitol and as Gov. Jared Polis is warning that the spread of the virus has no end in sight. Colorado’s largest […]