Comment on Renck: Win this week and Broncos must take big swing for receiver Tee Higgins at trade deadline

A passage from the Rudyard Kipling poem “If” is written on the wall of the players’ entrance to Wimbledon’s Centre Court. “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters both the same,” it reads. Competitors can glance at Kipling’s writing before they take to the London grass.

A third of the way through the season, everything is open to the Broncos except their receivers. The Broncos boast a three-game winning streak. Hope exists because of a gnarly defense and a methodically improving offense. Look at the schedule. There is zero reason they cannot reach 6-2 or 5-3 at the halfway point. So in about a month — Nov.

For those interested in high-flying offenses and explosive plays, Sunday’s matchup between the Broncos and Chargers might not satisfy your needs. Under first-year head coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Los Angeles has adopted a physical, run-heavy offense and Denver’s defense will have to adjust for that style of play. “It’s run first, run second and quick pass game,” defensive coordinator Vance Joseph said.

A. T. Perry hadn’t been active for a game yet this year for New Orleans. Still, he was surprised last week Friday when the Saints waived him from their 53-man roster. “It was kind of confusing for me,” the wide receiver said Thursday after his second day of practicing as a member of the Broncos’ practice squad.

A Colorado man is $3 million richer this week after winning the Colorado Lotto+ jackpot on Saturday. A winning Colorado Lotto+ ticket worth $3,099,213 was sold at Winner’s Corner — a board game and lottery shop at 310 North Main Street in Pueblo — to an 83-year-old Jerold C., according to lottery officials. The nearly $3.1 million jackpot has a cash value of just over $1.5 million, lottery officials said.

Twelve people were rescued after roughly seven hours trapped 1,000 feet underground in a Colorado gold mine on Pikes Peak following a deadly elevator malfunction, according to the Teller County Sheriff’s Office. Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado. (Dreamstime/TNS) Emergency responders were able to use the elevator to evacuate 12 adults from the bottom of the mine shaft on Thursday night, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said at a briefing. It’s not yet clear how the elevator malfunctioned at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, a tourist attraction near Cripple Creek, at approximately noon Thursday, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said at a briefing. Mikesell said the person died during the initial elevator malfunction but declined to provide more details until he could speak to their family. Four people sustained minor injuries and reported neck, back and arm pain and were treated by paramedics, he said. Mikesell said two children were on the elevator and will have access to mental health resources. The mine elevator experienced a mechanical issue when it was about 500 feet deep in the mine, causing “severe danger” for those on board, he said. Mikesell stressed that the mine shaft did not collapse and is currently stable. Emergency crews used the elevator to bring the 11 people on board to the surface, but officials wanted to make sure it was safe to use the elevator again before using it to bring up the 12 people still at the bottom of the mine shaft, Mikesell said. One tour company employee was among those trapped, and the group had water, chairs and blankets during the ordeal. The group was able to communicate with emergency crews by radio, but was not been told the extent of the problem with the elevator until they were rescued, Mikesell said. First responders also had other rescue options available, including using ropes and harnesses to lift people out of the mine, Mikesell said. Mikesell did not know the last time the elevator was inspected and said that would be part of the investigation, but added this is the only safety issue the mine has had since 1986. That incident involved two people getting trapped in the elevator and did not result in any fatalities, he said. Gov.