Deputy Sports Editor
Matt L. Stephens
Matt L. Stephens is a former deputy sports editor for The Denver Post.
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Stephens: Colorado State gave up on QB K.J. Carta-Samuels. Have the Rams given up on their season?
K.J. Carta-Samuels stood on the sidelines alone. Not a single teammate within seven yards as he watched Colorado State’s final, futile scoring drive from 50 yards down field.

Sunday was the hottest home game in Denver Broncos history
Sunday's first half wasn't a great time to sit in the southeast corner of Broncos Stadium. With the temperature reaching 92 degrees, plenty of fans sitting in the direct sunlight...

Broncos’ Brandon McManus was perfect on a bad day for NFL kickers
Sunday was a bad day to be a kicker, unless your name is Brandon McManus. The Broncos' veteran place kicker was perfect on his point-after attempts and connected on a...

Stephens: Colorado State’s $2 million game at Florida built on car chases, pizza and stupidity
Few college football games happen for reasons more stupid than what will bring Colorado State and Florida together Saturday. Yes, how this game came to be is just plain dumb.

No one covers Denver sports better than The Denver Post. Please consider trying a $6.99 sports subscription
Wherever the Broncos, Rockies, Nuggets and Avalanche go, we go. The Denver Post has the largest staff of professional sports journalists in Colorado and that staff is expanding; we're also...

Denver Broncos are the best team in NFL history on kickoff weekend
No team in NFL history has a better winning percentage on opening day than the Broncos. Denver's victory over the Seahawks on Sunday gave it a 39-19-1 record (.669) on...

Case Keenum’s debut start for the Broncos? Rated worse than Tim Tebow’s, but better than Paxton Lynch and Trevor Siemian’s.
In terms of pure yards and touchdowns, no Broncos quarterback in the past decade -- not even Peyton Manning -- had a better debut start than Case Keenum did Sunday....

Stephens: Colorado State coach Mike Bobo has shown us the man he is, and that deserves respect
Give Mike Bobo some credit. Even if the Rams somehow finish this season as poorly as it started, consider for a moment what he's going through, then remember a point...

Stephens: Colorado State football is preparing to feed us crow. Magical win over Arkansas shows anything is possible.
Emmanuel Jones’ outstretched paw tossed the tragic script that was Colorado State’s season in the shredder Saturday night.

Colorado Springs store is protesting Colin Kaepernick, Nike by liquidating merchandise
Looking for cheap Nike gear? It could be worth a drive to Colorado Springs.