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Littwin: John Elway’s storied promise to Peyton Manning

  Because this is sports, and in sports - unlike life -- anything is possible, John Elway probably believed what he said when he was...

Wiretap: Kareem Abdul Jabbar warns: More Baltimores are coming

Three points Kareem Abdul Jabbar writes that Baltimore is not an anomaly and that the economic conditions in cities like Baltimore mean there are more Baltimores...

Krieger on the Broncos: A super mawkish true sports story

Sportswriting so often succumbs to the mawkish. If Kevin Costner wrote this script — for himself, naturally — you’d roll your eyes.

Krieger on the Broncos looking back for the win

For two weeks, Manning and the Broncos heard about nothing but history. A digital loop replayed the nightmare from last year's playoff loss, Rahim Moore amazingly still misjudging the ball after all this time.

The engineer as artist: Peyton Manning sets a new standard

For those who weren’t in or around Denver at the time, it may be hard to believe that there was a vigorous debate, at least on sports talk radio, about the relative merits of Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning as the Broncos’ quarterback for 2012 and beyond.

Krieger on Peyton Manning kryptonite

Call it some kind of weird, backward karma. Rahim Moore was the apparent goat the last time the Broncos played in a freezer, at home in the playoffs last season, even though Tony Carter was at least as responsible for the catastrophic play.