Renck & File: In His Second Season, Sean Payton Has Found His Groove Coaching Broncos

Bo Nix earned the right to start. And it won’t be long before coach Sean Payton is forced to defend his decision. Hear me out. Six quarterbacks were drafted in the first round last spring. Nix was the last. Three started on opening weekend. You know how many will face four straight head coaches who were former defensive coordinators?

The Denver metro’s sluggish summer selling season continued in August. Despite active listings climbing 56 percent over August 2023, closed sales dropped last month, according to the August monthly real estate trends report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Active listings jumped from 6,858 in August 2023 to 10,724 last month.

FORT COLLINS — Mock newsprint riddled with inside jokes papered the walls. College students mainlining caffeine quibbled over headlines above the dulcet beats of a Lady Gaga song. And young journalists with a slice of Krazy Karl’s Pizza in one hand and a red pen in the other edited copy for grammar mistakes well into the evening. The basement headquarters of Colorado State University’s Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper came alive Tuesday night with the incomparable energy of a student newsroom during the production of a new edition. In this case, the students were giving articles last-minute tweaks for their issue commemorating Saturday’s Rocky Mountain Showdown, the longstanding football rivalry between the CSU Rams and the University of Colorado Buffaloes. Members of the CU Independent are welcomed at the Rocky Mountain Collegian offices in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Tuesday, Sept.

Garett Bolles made his 100th start Sunday at Seattle. He’s hoping to make No. 101 against Pittsburgh this weekend. That’s complicated by a calf injury — originally reported by the Broncos as an ankle issue — that had him out of Wednesday’s practice and limited Thursday. The Broncos left tackle, though, thinks he’s tracking in a good direction. “I feel good,” he said at his locker Thursday after practice.

A pharmacist who survived a 2021 mass shooting at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder said Thursday during the gunman’s trial that she heard him say “This is fun” at least three times during the shooting. The chilling detail had not been revealed before. Sarah Chen described how she hid with her coworkers in the store in the college town after Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa opened fire.

One firefighter was taken to the hospital after a residential fire burned two single-family homes in a Highlands Ranch neighborhood, according to South Metro Fire Rescue officials. The two-alarm house fire in the 10200 block of Woodrose Lane in Douglas County started burning Thursday afternoon, South Metro officials said in a post on X.