With so much Tebow talk dominating the country every damn minute of the day, we sometimes forget there are other sports going on in the Rocky Mountain region. Some of them are even playing right now! This Denver sports round-up will get you up to speed on what’s happening around the local athletics-o-sphere, now with [...]

Because of channel bundling, TV subscribers pay $100 a year, on average, for sports programming, no matter how much they watch. But emerging technologies may offer subscribers more options to avoid paying for programming they don’t want. Today’s exercise in everyday economics: Brian Stelter and Amy Chozick making the case that cable and satellite TV [...]

NASCAR confirmed the 2012 Sprint Cup schedule on Wednesday, and for better or worse, it’s little changed from the existing calendar. Despite recent calls by some drivers for the addition of a road race to the Chase playoff series, the same 10 oval races will decide next year’s championship, once again concluding at Homestead-Miami Speedway [...]

Tony Stewart, who is already 40-years-old, won last year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Stewart, who had an impressive finish to the season, managed to win five of the last 10 Chase for the Sprint Cup competitions. Since Stewart managed to win the championship, he certainly deserves to be the front-runner to win next year’s Sprint [...]

Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com (note new address) or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face.

  Lighting of the Torch for the 1st ever Winter Youth Olympic Games. The flame is now on its way to the host city of Innsbruck, where it will embark on a country-wide torch relay on 27 December before returning for the official opening of the Games on 13 January. LAUSANNE, December 17,2011 – The [...]

Dion Waiters scored a career-high 22 points to help No. 1 Syracuse beat host North Carolina State, 88-72, on Saturday. Scoop Jardine added 16 points for the Orange (11-0), including two 3-pointers during an 11-2 spurt after the Wolfpack (6-4) fought back from a 17-point deficit late in the first half.

In the spirit of the holiday season, with about 30 days needed from settlement to the start of a season, the NBA and the locked out players have given the gift of a resumption in talks.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—South Korea will host golf’s Presidents Cup in 2015, highlighting the sport’s continuing growth and popularity in Asia and marking the event’s first appearance in the region. U.S. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said Wednesday at this year’s event, which begins Thursday, that an as-yet undecided Korean club will host the biennial match-play [...]

LAS VEGAS — Nick Diaz punched BJ Penn straight out of mixed martial arts competition on Saturday. Diaz won a unanimous decision against Penn by keeping the fight standing to batter him with punches for the last two rounds of the main event of UFC 137 in Las Vegas. After the fight, Penn announced that [...]