I often get asked, “What’s been your favorite assignment?”. The response is usually pre-empted with a chuckle and  a smile and a rather bewildered reply of “That’s a hard one.” Much like with a bucket list there are assignments you hope to cover in a career and then there are the ones you have encountered […]

I was contacted by a national publishing house representative last week requesting I offer images for review for a new book featuring future NFL Hall of Fame inductee Peyton Manning. Manning spent fourteen years with the Indianapolis Colts before the club decided to look to the future for a younger quarterback and subsequently declined to renew […]

As kids growing up just down the hill from Evergreen (CO) we had no problem entertaining our selves around the neighborhood even during winter months. Our “playground” consisted of a frozen irrigation ditch for pond hockey, snow-packed cul-de-sacs or dead-end streets for a shoe version of pond hockey. We had nearby awesomely steep, teeth-rattling hills for our […]

After bagging a couple of days at the 2013 Aspen Winter X Games I have found a lot of great faces and garb to go along with action on the hill.

    Always grateful and thankful for many things this holiday. I am very thankful for all those turkeys that make the ultimate sacrifice for Americans and for all Americans that  pay tribute to Meleagris gallopavo.      

I recently completed a project at the United States Air Force Academy for ESPN. My day brought fond memories of earlier visits to one of the finest institutions in America. I began visiting the U.S. Air Force Academy when I was a boy. My grandfather Bakke was an athletic trainer at the University of Wisconsin […]

The death today of four-time Winter X Games champion skier Sarah Burke will touch the hearts of many. The 29 year-old Canadian was at the top of her game and she was a true role model for her peers and fans alike. She will be remembered not only for her  talents on the slopes and […]

Over the years covering the NFL there really is only one game I dread. It is visiting the Oakland ( Los Angeles then Oakland again) Raiders home field. It isn’t so much the Black and Silver themselves it’s everyone the Black and Silver draws to the stadium. I have been spit on. I have had […]

Fans like to attend training camps. It’s their first look at the team after a six month hiatus. In Denver, they are always greeted with with a combination of the following: HOT days, soaking rain and or threatening lighting, small sneaky biting flies and a culmination of great plays, good hits and a large dose […]

The Mt. Evans Freedom Run is serious business for some runners even if it’s only a 5k. A winning time of 15:50 is no laughing matter                           at roughly 7900 ft. of altitude. The 30th Annual race drew nearly a 1000 runners, walkers […]