Avs Hold Off the Stars 3-2 as MacKinnon Drops the Gloves Again

Thursday Night Football puts Mile High in prime time tonight. Then comes a Saturday with a top-five Big Ten fight, and a baseball October where the Brewers have the Dodgers in deep trouble. Me? I’m 7-4 on the season and riding a two-game win streak. My dear twin brother Jim is 4-7 with a fresh loss on his card. One…

Busy night on the sports desk. My brother Harry Balz is at the Avalanche game, so it’s just me, a laptop and too much coffee. The story is Guardians Rays ALCS Game 2. Cleveland came into Tropicana Field with a chance to go up 2-0 and leave Florida with a choke hold on the series. Instead the Rays took Game…

Listen up, Hairy Times readers — I don’t say this often, but my twin brother Jim actually got something right. Football IS back, and America DOES need this. We need the noise, the passion, the pure unadulterated chaos of grown men crashing into each other while we scream advice they can’t hear from our couches.

An undrafted rookie quarterback walked into AT&T Stadium and left with Tampa Bay’s first win of the season. That’s how the NFL Week 5 schedule got started, and Sunday should be just as loud. Here’s what happened Thursday night, every Sunday kickoff time and channel, and my picks. My brother Harry Balz will disagree with every one of them, which…

Saturday, Oct. 3, was a rough night for Colorado college football. The Buffaloes lost at home to Texas Tech, the Rams got run over by Oregon State in Fort Collins, and Harry Balz has to answer for last week’s Jim vs. Harry predictions. That leaves one question hanging over Boulder: what is Deion Sanders‘ future at Colorado after another lopsided…