Frei: Hey, baseball snobs. There’s nothing wrong with making Coors Field an amusement park
The Rockies’ home attendance of 1,061,340 ranked ninth in Major League Baseball going into Wednesday night’s games. Their average…
Frei: Shouldn’t football be the last resort for good athletes?
Frankly, I'm surprised football hasn't suffered more collateral damage than it has the past, say, 20 years as the evidence mounts.
Frei: Like sands in the hourglass, so are the days of the Avalanche offseason
The Washington Capitals can claim the Stanley Cup — well, at least for a year — on Thursday night in Las Vegas, with a road win…
Frei: Doug Moe gets his due
When Dallas coach and Dallas National Basketball Coaches Association President Rick Carlisle presented Doug Moe with the…
Frei: For the kazillionth time … it’s time for CU and CSU to revive their baseball programs
This absence of baseball at CU and CSU has gotten ridiculous. And even embarrassing.
Frei: The most glaring ex-player Ring of Fame omission is Otis Armstrong
Otis was the Broncos’ first round draft choice in 1973, befuddling many because future Hall of Famer Floyd Little was entrenched…
If anyone tries to claim we’re making too much of the Vegas Knights making the Cup Final, he (or she) probably splits 10s
The only thing aggravating about this has been the attempts of those conditioned to be contrarian, contrive controversy and…
Frei: Eagles about to fly up a level as Avalanche affiliate
It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Besides, Case Keenum doesn't have the time.
Frei: About Paxton Lynch … well … um … hummina, hummina …
A sage football man once told me that one of the most important attributes in his business was having the ability to acknowledge…
Frei: Wanna bet?
Here's why it's ridiculous for the leagues, and especially the NFL, to expect a cut. Gambling has been a major component of their…
Frei: The question wasn’t if Jim Montgomery would leave DU for NHL, it was when
Last December, just before our lunches arrived at the iconic Pete’s University Cafe, a short walk from Magness Arena, I brought up…
Frei: You don’t have to be a horse racing fan to love the Kentucky Derby
When I moved to the Nuggets beat early in my journalism career, in a time when that meant traveling with the team on commercial…
Frei: Don’t let the Nuggets off the hook with lower expectations than those for the Avalanche
Funny how perception works. Both the Nuggets and Avalanche went into the final game of the 2017-18 regular-season knowing that a…
Frei: Great Avalanche season? Sure… if it turns out to be a forecast of a return to the NHL’s elite
I'm not sure I've even been around such a thud of an ending -- in this case, the 5-0 Game 6 loss to the Predators at home that…
Frei: It ain’t over for the Avs ’til … it’s over
Think of the Predators without Pekka Rinne and P.K. Subban. It is reasonable to ponder it as a bit of comparative whimsy, not as…
Frei: It’s not up to Bernier alone, but Avs’ best shot now is for him to steal a game or three
Bernier's numbers in the series are awful, but in the postseason the sample size is small and the slate starts fresh each night.
Frei: Nashville is hitting all the right notes as an NHL city
The NHL doesn’t get everything right, but it often doesn’t get enough credit for its successes, either. One of them is Nashville.…
Frei: Remember when it wasn’t so monumental for Avs just to make playoffs? But this in its own way is more fun.
Absolutely, this in many ways is a lot more fun than the glory-years seasons because it was so unexpected and the single-season…
Frei: How’s this for half full? Barely missing playoffs wouldn’t be all bad for the Avs
The Avalanche’s playoff hopes will come down to the final game of the regular season. After beating the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1…
Frei: Obligations of stardom mean MacKinnon line has to lead this team down stretch
Nathan MacKinnon didn’t dodge it. In fact, he brought it up himself. With a playoff spot at stake, the Avalanche’s MacKinnon-…
Frei: An Avalanche playoff run can be a flashback, and there’s nothing wrong with that
The Avalanche's playoff run will turn out to be a fun flashback, too. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Frei: Here come the Knights … now and perhaps in the postseason
The first task, of course, is to make the playoffs. But the Avalanche needs to maintain the momentum in its evolution.
Frei: The MacKinnon-for-Hart Trophy talk becoming more legit every day
It has become this simple: If the Avalanche makes the playoffs, pulling off the turnaround of epic proportions after the 48-point…
Frei: Amid March Madness, a reminder that NHL draft/watch system is better than NBA’s mess
The NBA and NCAA would both benefit from adopting a draft and watch system similar to what the NHL employs.
Frei: Nathan MacKinnon has the best of intentions … but it’s a bad, bad idea
It's praiseworthy, even impressive humility. Nathan MacKinnon doesn't think he's above this. Well, he is now. And all his…