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Grab the popcorn and the Chex Nix. Pull up a chair. It’s time to enjoy the party. Bo Nix is the starting quarterback for the Broncos. Finally, coach Sean Payton made official what his eyes have been telling him for weeks. Nix will become the first Broncos rookie quarterback to start a season opener since John Elway in 1983. That guy became the greatest player in franchise history.

A brother of Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic appeared in Denver County Court on a misdemeanor assault charge Wednesday after a gameday fight in April. Strahinja Jokic, 42, was charged with third-degree assault after a video went viral on social media that appeared to show him punching a man in the face courtside at Denver’s Ball Arena during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The punch followed a “verbal exchange,” police wrote in an affidavit.

Sean Payton found Bo Nix on the practice field Wednesday morning and delivered the news that’s been coming for days, weeks, maybe months. You’re the guy. Nix, the No. 12 pick in April’s draft, has been named Denver’s starting quarterback and will make his regular-season debut Sept. 8 at Seattle. Payton informed Nix and fellow quarterbacks Jarrett Stidham and Zach Wilson of the decision Wednesday morning before telling reporters after practice. He went around to each of the three during pre-practice stretching and told them that Nix had won the job. The way Payton and Nix tell it, their exchange was more business-like than ebullient. “He smiled and he was good.

The PGA Tour has returned to Colorado, and now there’s even more on the line. The BMW Championship comes to Castle Pines Golf Club this Thursday through Sunday — the second-to-last event in the FedExCup Playoffs featuring the top 50 players in the PGA Tour’s FedExCup standings. The winner will walk away with the J.

CASTLE ROCK — The 2024 BMW Championship is set for Aug. 22-25 at Castle Pines Golf Club, and the club’s experts believe the course is ready to hold up against the world’s best. Castle Pines head pro Drew Parr walked The Denver Post through the course last week. Here’s the inside information on what to watch for on each hole as the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup rankings descend upon Colorado for one of the PGA Tour’s premier tournaments. The rough will be about four inches high across the course, and dry and fast greens — pending a sunny weekend of play — should keep the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy from tearing up the course too much.

Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag. Pose a Rockies- or MLB-related question for the Rockies Mailbag. Is Kris Bryant stuck in the role of light-hitting, reserve outfielder with periodic DH duties? — Alex Brown, Englewood Alex, as I noted in my Sunday Rockies Journal, Bryant’s future is one of the biggest question marks facing the Rockies.