Last week the Denver Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat to secure their first Finals Championship in team history. Nearly three-quarters of a million Nuggets fans celebrated by tossing beers and cheering on their favorite players during last Thursday’s parade through downtown.
While fans are still high on the win, they weren’t expecting to see another “W” for the city of Denver for at least another year. Oh so they thought.
Since April 9, 2022, the city of Denver has become home to one Hobey Baker Memorial Award (NCAA Division 1, Men’s Hockey), one National Lacrosse League Cup (NLL, Denver Pioneers), one Stanley Cup (NHL, Colorado Avalanche), one Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy (NBA, Denver Nuggets) and now Denver native Wyndham Clark has added one Sir Thomas Dewar Cup (U.S. Open) to add to Denver’s collection of trophy’s earned just over the past year.
Clarke, a Valor Christian graduate and Denver native who now resides out of Scottsdale, Arizona defeated a string of greats like Rory Mcllroy, Scottie Scheffler, and Cameron Smith to win his first PGA U.S. Open.
Clarke took home a $3.6 million winner’s cut from the record $20 million prize purse. Clarke previously won the Wells Fargo Championship back on the 7th of May when he defeated Xander Schauffele by four shots. Sunday’s win on Father’s Day Clark beat favorite, Rory Mcllroy by a single stroke to win his first PGA U.S. Open. The 29 year old kicked off his professional career in 2017.
In other sports the Colorado Rockies have won one of their last seven games back on June 13th against the Red Sox in game two of a three-game series. The Rockies have since lost six straight to the Red Sox, the Atlanta Braves and Monday’s game one of three-game series with the Cincinnati Reds.
The Colorado Rockies are now 16 games behind the division leading Diamondbacks, 12.5 games behind the San Francisco Giants, 11.5 behind the L.A. Dodgers, and 7.5 games behind the second to last in the NL West, San Diego Padres.
The Rockies will close out their series with the Reds on Wednesday before returning home to host the L.A. Angels through this weekend.
There has been an obvious shift in culture at Dove Valley for the Denver Broncos. The shift stems from the hiring of Coach Sean Payton who received high praise from Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson. “And this is no disrespect to any of my other coaches that I’ve been around, but I haven’t been around a football mind like that in my career,” Jackson said. He continues, “Just his attention to detail, the way he’s teaching everybody and taking chances on the field to stop things and coach the moments.”
The Broncos are expected to be a much more competitive team than they have been since winning Super Bowl 50 in 2015. Last season Denver brought in Russell Wilson along with Coach Nathaniel Hackett who’s 4 and
11 season sent him packing before the season even ended. Wilson is hoping to have his best comeback season after a dismal year with Hackett at the helm.
