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Denver Sports Omelette: Nuggets and Avs have a chance to do something they haven’t done since 2010

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You think picking out your NCAA Tournament bracket was hard? Consider doing the #RoxMusicMadness. The Nuggets and the Avalanche have a shot a doing something that they haven’t done because the 2009-10 season: Both make the playoffs. That’s right, the Pepsi Center hasn’t been host to both NBA and NHL games in the same year
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No Warped Tour, no problem: New festival coming to Colorado looks to fill emo-punk hole at Fiddler’s

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Regardless of the 2018 loss of the long-running Warped Tour, promoters are still cooking up ways to unite emo-punk children in massive public settings which are directly at odds with the anti-establishment messages in the music around them. Promoter AEG Presents has united with SGE (Synergy Global Entertainment) to debut the Disrupt Festival, a 25-city
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Stevie Wonder is playing his first-ever Red Rocks show as part of SeriesFest Season 5

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Regardless of the strides Denver-based SeriesFest has made to place itself as the premiere TV-pilot festival and hobnobbing occasion in the U.S., we’ve never seen a name as big as Stevie Wonder attached to it. The June 21-26 event, which organizers are billing as Season 5, includes dozens of panels, screenings, workshops and premieres designed
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Chambers: Coloradoan Brad Watson, NHL referee, retires with honors

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Coloradoan Brad Watson called it a career Saturday, concluding a 23-year stint as an NHL referee before family and friends at the Pepsi Center. I feel fortunate to have been among those friends. A scratch golfer, good hockey player, and terrific story-teller, Watson hand-picked his 1,393rd and last NHL game — choosing his adopted hometown
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Avalanche hosts the Chicago Blackhawks in referee Brad Watson’s swan song

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NHL referee Brad Watson has lived a charmed life, but one he’s ready to leave. The longtime Highlands Ranch resident from Regina, Saskatchewan, is saying goodbye to hockey’s premier stage Saturday when he works his final NHL game at the Pepsi Center. Watson, 57, is retiring from a 22-year NHL career following the Avalanche hosts
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Jennifer Lopez will celebrate her 50th birthday at the Pepsi Center this summer

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As a singer, actor, dancer and all-around showbiz mainstay, Jennifer Lopez feels frozen in time. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and it’s due partially to the fact that she hasn’t changed her persona much in recent years — after various reinventions since breaking out in the mid-’90s. But as J.Lo approaches her 50th birthday
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Avalanche might stick with hodgepodge lineup at Minnesota

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Its unstructured lineup become a polished parade for the Avalanche on Sunday, meaning the beer-league look might get another try Tuesday night at Minnesota. The Avs used one less forward (11) and an extra defenseman (seven) in defeating the New Jersey Devils 3-0 at the Pepsi Center, together with the line combinations and defensive pairings
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Avs coach Jared Bednar blasts his players after losing a game they had to win

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Avalanche coach Jared Bednar chastised his players Friday following his rested squad blew a 2-0 lead and dropped to the road-weary Anaheim Ducks at a game Colorado had to win to keep its dwindling playoff hopes alive. “We were checking with our eyes,” Bednar said following the Ducks scored in the final minute of regulation
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Collaborations with Flaming Lips, Tenacious D and more making a night with Colorado Symphony one of Denver’s hottest tickets

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Christopher Dragon didn’t turn around much on the job on Feb. 22, which ’s probably a great thing. “I had no idea about all the stuff going on behind me,” Dragon, the associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony, said of the sold-out series at Boettcher Concert Hall.  ”It was funny seeing Instagrams later and realizing
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Kiszla: “Baywatch” boxers and tricks shots at the buzzer. Making the case for Nuggets center Nikola Jokic as MVP.

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After hitting a trick shot that would’ve done Larry Bird proud to beat Dallas in the buzzer, Nikola Jokic pulled on his “Baywatch” boxers in the Pepsi Center locker room and acted as if his heroics were as pure dumb luck as purchasing a winning lotto ticket with the last dollar in his pocket. “Lucky
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