Worst. Colorado. Sports. Week. Ever.
We signed up for this. As sports fans, we know our passion is a losing proposition, that our beloved will betray us, that caring deeply about things beyond any measure of control will inevitably lead to feelings of profound disappointment and impotence. We know this and still we care, we continue to lie to ourselves, rationalizing away this loss and justifying this win. Fans are, if nothing else, quixotic.
And when the season ends in inevitable disappointment, the smelling salts hit us almost immediately. Our delicate towers of bullshit are torn down like statues of Saddam and we begin speaking in relative terms. "That was a pretty good year," we say. "Not too bad, all things considered," or "At least we're not the Raiders." We might be bummed out for a little while, but for the most part, we just shake our heads, shrug our shoulders and transfer the self-delusion back onto other facets of our lives.
Yet even under the accepted rules of engagement, this has been a brutal week for Colorado sports. For those of you unencumbered by the burden of fandom, here’s a quick recap of the miserable week you were completely oblivious to:











Yet again the little-dog yapping of the Minnesota Mild has gone for naught. As we 



If you could predict the future, would you be a sportswriter? As cool as it would be to state unequivocally during the preseason, “Eli Manning will lead his team to the Super Bowl ” or, “the Vikings and Browns will both finish just one game out of a playoff spot,” if these writers really knew how the season would shake down, they’d be living like Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II.
The 2007-2008 CHL All-Star Game - Tuesday and Wednesday, January 15th and 16th, Broomfield Event Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane.
Last night, college football’s bowl season came to an end when the coveted ADT National Championship trophy was awarded to the Louisiana State Tigers following their defeat of the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Allstate BCS National Championship game. The corporate names littering that last sentence go a long way in explaining why college football can’t work out a simple playoff system. Devising a series of games in which teams square off head-to-head through a succession of rounds – a “tournament,” if you will – is the easy part: figuring out how to divvy up literally hundreds of millions of dollars between NCAA conferences while appeasing corporate sponsors, who put their names on everything from the fields to the trophies - that’s where things get a little more complicated. In honor of the grand mess that was the college football postseason, here’s a quiz to test your memory of the 2007-2008 bowl games and, more importantly, your brand awareness of the various sponsors that pony up serious cash to act as their benefactors.