Eric Lars Bakke / Photographer

Wow, where did this year go? In fact, where did the decade go? It doesn’t seem that long ago that I climbed Bergen Peak  here in Evergreen CO. on New Years Eve 1999 to usher in the new millenium.
In the balance of life this was not a great year. However, I have many blessings  to [...]

Somewhere between the Queen Ka’ ahumanu Highway covering the Ford World Ironman Championship October 10, the Boston Patriots AFL throwback game less than twelve hours later  in Denver October 11  or the hike with the wife and dogs on October 18th , four hours before boarding a plane to cover the Monday NFL game in [...]

I just returned  Monday from covering Summer X Games 15 in Los Angeles. It was my 14th year of covering one of America’s most unique and , I feel, sometimes underrated sports events. I missed summer 2004 when Denver Bronco John Elway  was inducted into the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio.
ESPN [...]

Denver Bronco training camp officially started today which means my summer is over once again.
Each summer for the past 26 consecutive years I have covered the team’s summer camp. Until recent years camp was held about 65 miles north of Denver in Ft. Collins Colorado on the Colorado State University campus followed by numerous years [...]

I was saddened when I learned from a photo colleague today that Danish triathlete Torbjorn Sindballe had retired from triathlon competition due to a heart irregularity.
The Great Dane retired Tuesday June 30 after determining medical evaluations by Danish doctors showed signs of complications from an abnormal heart valve. He had been aware of the abnormality [...]

I was covering the Winter X Games again this year in Aspen  (Co.) and as part of my preparation I thought I would take a glance at the weather forecast for the week of January 18. We had  a wonderful stretch of weather here in Colorado the week before the games so I was looking [...]

Yesterday, twelve days after releasing Mike Shanahan as head coach of the Denver Broncos, the organization under the direction of President and CEO Pat Bowlen,  chose Josh McDaniels of the New England Patriots  as the new coach after an extensive and ardent search.
As the press conference introducing McDaniels wound down at Dove Valley in Englewood [...]

When all was said and done, the day covering the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona Hawaii certainly didn’t disappoint myself or my Bakke-Svensson/ Ironman team members.
Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington provided stunning performances and the grit and determination offered by many of the challenged athletes inspired all once again.
Ben Hays ,Tony Svensson and [...]