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Over the past 14 years, the Colorado Rockies were so awful that they could have signed Denver Broncos football legend John Elway to play left field and it wouldn't have put any more fans in Coors Field's 50,000 seats. Or hurt the team's performance...
...heads into its first World Series, Colorado is a loose, nothing-to-lose crew led by a cadre of green but muscled troops named Troy Tulowitzki (a possible Rookie of the Year at shortstop), Brad Hawpe, Jeff Francis (a 17-9 regular-season pitcher), Garrett Atkins and Matt Holliday (the probable NL MVP), who can still stroll unrecognized down Denver's 16th Street Mall. Then there are the older hands: Helton, speed burner Willie Taveras, Yorvit Torrealba and Kazuo Matsui (of Tokyo by way of New York City, cast off by the Mets...
They're a droll, quiet outfit; they don't argue or slam their flinty, flattopped manager Clint Hurdle or talk cosmically about the streak, which has propelled them to a place no one expected when the season began at the end of a snowy Colorado winter. "We're young but good players and a good team, and an organization headed in the right direction. I expected to win from Day One," the whip-armed Tulowitzki said...
...there are other devils lurking in the details, like noncompete clauses that may prevent transportation agencies from building new roads, or the inability to use roads for economic development by, say, adding a new exit to attract businesses. Some officials get queasy about locking themselves into long leases; Colorado officials already regret offering a 99-year lease for the Northwest Parkway. Others are turned off by the hard sell from investment bankers who advise states on some deals and bid on others. "This should be the last option," says Texas state senator John Carona, "not the first...
...women who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the soldiers who have come back scarred and maimed? If we stop commemorating 9/11, it will become just another event in the history books that will eventually fade from the collective memory. We must not forget. Esther Ann Horwitz, COLORADO SPRINGS...