By BERNIE LINCICOME, Scripps Howard News Service
Lincicome: 'New direction' or bust for Broncos
Mike Shanahan will coach again, and soon, if that is what he wants to do. There is no hard landing for someone who has won two Super Bowls.
The Denver Broncos, however, are now damned by that most ominous of phrases, a new direction.
Broncos not bad for 'bad bananas'
How best to characterize these Denver Broncos. The Little Team that Shouldn't? The Improbables? The Defiant Ones?
Certainly, there is a label to compliment what the Broncos have achieved, to be where they are when logic and custom deny it, to be celebrated rather than scorned.
Avery vulgarity no match for NHL thuggery
The inclination to make examples of louts will never change the essential core of professional sports that sports are made up of louts.
Sean Avery, a rather oafish hockey player for the Dallas Stars, remained entirely in character when demeaning a former girlfriend and, thus, was almost immediately no longer allowed to play hockey.
Woods-GM divorce bodes ill for rest of us
Tiger Woods never sold a Buick. Since he started trying to sell them, only half as many were sold as before, so in a way, the problems of General Motors can be seen as Tiger's fault. If he had been able to convince the world that he liked the car or that he even drove the car, maybe car company bigwigs would not now be begging.
Broncos assume their true identity
The tip-off Sunday came during Denver Broncos introductions when safety Roderick Rogers came trotting through the inflated horse's head. Applause that had greeted various members of the Broncos defense paused in mid-clap.
MLB awards make it all clear as mud
And just like the baseball season that wandered finally into folly and indifference, postseason awards confirm how dreary it all was.First of all, they were all wrong, all except Joe Maddon, Tampa Bay's manager, but that implies that the argument is worth making.
Iverson never The Answer for Nuggets
The Nuggets' long nightmare -- or rather short dream as it applies to Allen Iverson himself and to his wasted tenure in Denver -- is over.Reserve your NBA Finals tickets now.OK. Maybe not that. But the Nuggets are a better team today than they were Monday, a better team than they were at any time after Iverson arrived, a better team as much by subtraction as addition.
Worst is yet to come for Broncos
DENVER -- An airplane trailing a banner claiming that John McCain is a Raiders fan flew over Invesco Field before Sunday's game Denver-Miami game, not quite the insult it was intended to be.Politics aside, anyone claiming to be a Broncos fan might not inspire confidence, his judgment, good sense and willingness to suffer questioned as his team turns into crumbs before his eyes.
