The Denver Nuggets tipped off another game in Ball Arena on Saturday afternoon, seeking their seventh straight victory and third over the Houston Rockets this season. The Nuggets found

The Nuggets sit as the No. 2 team in the Western Conference, the Avalanche have the best record in the NHL, and the Broncos have the best record in the NFL.

In a sign of how quickly fortunes can flip in the parity-filled NFL, Denver (12-2) now boasts one of the league's best defenses, a quarterback it believes in and an 11-game winning streak.

The last time the Houston Rockets were in Denver, they left angry and defeated. Five days later they have a chance to rewrite the ending when they return to face the Nuggets on Saturday afternoon.

So, the Flyers called up right wing Denver Barkey from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to make his NHL debut. Barkey, 20, was selected by the Flyers in the third round (95th overall) of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. The Newmarket, Ontario native was a member of the former two-time Memorial Cup champion London Knights.

Denver's Mile High Drone Show, the popular holiday-season show that lights up the city's skies with drones, its Christkindlmarket, and the Mile High Tree have been canceled for Wednesday due to dangerously high winds.

Twenty years after Denver recorded the song, country star Alan Jackson included it on his holiday CD, Honky Tonk Christmas. A review by Washington City Paper described Jackson’s "gritty" version as “longer on the tragedy now than when Danoff wrote it and a sloppy drunk seemed so much funnier.”

Denver coach David Adelman was ejected for the first time in his NBA coaching career Saturday. Adelman was tossed by official Tyler Ricks in the fourth quarter of Denver's 115-101 loss to the Houston Rockets.