If you are lucky enough to do some travel writing, every once and a while you come upon a discovery before the whole world gets the wake-up call. That's the way it was for me and my wife at The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek.

We first...

On behalf of clueless soccer fans on this side of the pond, I would like to personally welcome the Barclay's Premier League to the heretofore unexploited world of American fandom.

The reason for my howdy-ing has everything to do with the Fox Broadcasting Company's decision Sunday morning to show...

Tim Tebow is the best evidence yet of the existence of his very own Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

No question, as jocks like to say with microphones in their mugs. Most definitely.

If you don't believe a heathen, then consider the indisputable video evidence that Tebow, quarterback of...

Bill Simmons is one of my heroes. Not only did he quit the Boston Herald just like me, but he went on to major in basketball with an email newsletter that grew into an ESPN mini-empire: The Sports Guy, the 30 for 30 documentaries, and now the exemplary Grantland Network,...

Media shock and awe descended upon Happy Valley this week, but nothing was more shocking than the outcries and outrage leveled against Mike McQueary, the Penn State football team's wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator -- and the whistleblower against Jerry Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator now accused of sexual...

CON GAMES -- The Culture Editor of the New York Times, who deigns on bad days to write about sports, says: "Sports are absurd." (This in Sunday's New York Times Magazine.) But if you're a true sports fan, then you know Culture Editor is in way over his...

Ink-stained wretches will find this hard to believe, but we the people have moved full-bore into the golden age of content. Despite the nosedive of print products everywhere, the actual market for content has never been better. Writers and editors who found their skill-sets archaic are about to find out...

I am now on my knees praying for Tom Cleverley, the young midfielder from Manchester United cast down by undeserved injury early this season just as he was leading the famous side to one of its greatest starts ever. No one else seems to be talking about Cleverley, no one...

I didn't know diddly about Erin Burnett, the new anchor at CNN, but I liked the video of her decamping to the bowels of capitalism to go womano-a-womano with the occupiers. I liked her willingness to expose the Dumbo qualities of some of the protesters, particularly when she told them...

Once upon a time, in a previous life, I launched myself into a limousine uninvited because Walter Cronkite was in the backseat and he was my ticket to ride. He was just about to retire, and he was kind enough to get me an interview at CBS in New York,...

Tradition can't hold a candle to defeat.

I know because I have tried for eight years to the day to be the very best Colorado football fan I can be. I have tried tradition, going back twice now to the Oxford Hotel in LoDo, there to prepare for the...

I woke up with gout in my shin last night so I thought I had better alert the media.

I know gout the way Bill Simmons knows basketball; the way Joe Biden knows tangents. I know gout (literally) right down to my bones, and if you don't have gout, or...

The latest twist in the Aspen cocaine bust blues is actually not the news that Michael Cleverly of Woody Creek -- artist, writer, self-appointed "journalist" -- is now being compelled to show his mug July 25, 2011, in front of a grand jury in Denver, Colorado.

The real news is...

The willingness of the Aspen community to adopt a don't ask/don't tell policy when it comes to cocaine trafficking -- and then to slavishly say they like it that way -- is shameful, disgraceful, and all but indefensible.

Want to hear the latest joke? Both Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo...

The vast majority of the 500 pounds of cocaine brought by local dealers into the Aspen community in the last decade was consumed by locals, according to Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Resident Agent in Charge Jim Schrant.

"Five hundreds pounds of cocaine would be substantial in any city," Schrant said,...

The longstanding romance between the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office and known local drug dealers in Aspen took a decided turn for the worse this week when the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) busted a major cocaine ring based in Aspen with ties to Los Angeles.

The DEA was so concerned...

Here is how we all want to punch out when the time comes:

"Surrounded by family and close friends, he (she) said farewell to each and every one and then passed on to a better life."

Or put it this way: to be with the ones you love -- to...

If there's a better evening of entertainment in a dark venue than Aspen Shortsfest then I've never seen it. Year after year -- for twenty years now -- the festival serves up a heaping helping of short films as drama, comedy, animation, and documentaries that the indie world has to...

DENVER, COLORADO--When I got my ticket punched (scanned) at the Pepsi Center for the NCAA tournament, the main attraction herein was Jimmer Fredette, the scoring machine from BYU. Sure, we were hoping for an upset or two--we double-dipped thanks to Morehead State and Richmond--but Jimmer was the thing.

It's not...

After a great day last winter at Powderhorn in Grand Mesa, Colorado, my wife and I vowed to get our ticket punched in 2011 and to stay overnight for two days of weekend skiing.

A particular pleasure for me at Powderhorn is the ubiquitous presence of...