The Rockies have reportedly CALLED A FRIGGIN' BEEKEEPER to report to Coors Field to corrall an enormous swarm of bees at the park. The Rockies are currently battling both the snakes and the bees.

Covering the Rockies for regional cable TV has been one heck of a career launcher for a few folks. Charissa Thompson, who held the mic for Fox Sports Rocky Mountain before it became Root Sports, will replace Michelle Beadle on ESPN's 'Sports Nation' with Colin Cowherd. Beadle is making her ESPN exit at the end of this month. 

Thompson handled the same duties as Alanna Rizzo who was recently called up by the MLB Network. The job is now held by the striking Jenny Cavnar. Who knows what kind of sweet gig she might end up with as a result.

Thompson can currently be found on ESPN's 'Numbers Never Lie'. The Sports Nation gig will dry up relatively soon. Colin Cowherd plans on killing the show after this season. Regardless, the opportunity is a mammith one for Thompson.

Ever since Denver was eliminated from the playoffs, Nuggets fans had been hearing that Andre Miller either wanted to start at point guard for a team or be moved to a contender. Today we hear the opposite.

Benjamin Hochman over at the Post reports that Andre wants to remain a Nugget. Ben spoke to Masai who told him: "Andre Miller told us plain and simple that he wants to come back and play here".

Miller, who is an unrestricted free-agent, had grumbled earlier this season about coming off the bench behind Ty Lawson but, according to Masai, has realized that there are benefits to being a back up: "He even said to me that Ty (Lawson) helped him, because the minutes he played, he took care of his body, he didn't play as many minutes."

It would be great to see Miller stick around. He's not the most fiery character but his experience showed in the playoffs.

The Denver Broncos announced today that Rod Smith with be the 23rd member of the Broncos Ring of Fame. He's the first former player to be honored since Shannon Sharpe was in 2009.  In making his annoucement, Pat Bowlen offered this thought: "Rod’s production and numbers -- as outstanding as they were -- paled in comparison to his commitment to winning and the respect he commanded from each and every one of his teammates throughout his career. Emerging from an undrafted player to one of the best to ever play his position, Rod has truly earned his place among the greatest Broncos of all time."

No word as to when Simon Fletcher and Dan Reeves will recognized.

Fair warning to those considering screening the name "Jesus" onto garments: Tim Tebow owns it, apparently. The Jets QB and his pack of legal hounds has come after a company called Cubby Tees for this tee-shirt design which incorporates the famed deity's name in a NY Jets style insignia. 

Tebow's peeps insist that Cubby tees "stop any use of Mr. Tebow's name and / or likeness".

Come to think of it, I have always kind of thought Tim looked a bit like a big, green Jesus fish.

We admire the Big Lead. It's one of the finest sports blogs out there. Most importantly, it's independant - not part of one of the Sports Blogging empires. 

Naturally, we were stoked to hear that the writers there worked up a ranking of NFL owners from 1-32.

Our own Pat Bowlen was named the 6th best owner in the NFL behind Bob Kraft, the Rooneys (Dan and Art), John Mara and Steve Tisch (NYG), the people of Green Bay and Steve Bisciotti who owns the Ravens. The loony Jim Irsay came in seventh, one spot behind Pat.

Stan Kroenke of the Rams placed 23rd and the two Ohio owners brought up the rear.

Read part of of the piece HERE. And part two HERE

Radio and Denver legend Gil Whiteley (@Gilfest) joins the show for an incredible session of sports talk, movie chatter and a healthy dose of his distinctive voice.

We get to the bottom of Gil’s start to his 25 year radio career, he tells some jokes and gives us some great John Elway stories and how he was instrumental in bringing baseball to Colorado.

Gil tells us an amazing story about Mike Shanahan and Wade Phillips's hiring that you’ve probably never heard before.

And he gives us the behind the scenes rundown about what prompted a famed column from his good friend Woody Paige.

Gil was a wealth of info and we could have gone on for hours with him. Check out his daily show on Mile High Sports, The Sports Nooner from 11 am to 1 pm on 93.7 FM.

Ty Warren got paid $4M last year for doin' nothin'. In fact, the defensive lineman has never played a single snap for the Broncos. The Broncos would like Warren to take a pay cut - from $4M to $1.5M for the upcoming season. He has not shown a great deal of interest in their proposal.

Chances are Warren will eventually capitulate. If he doesn't thr Broncos are likely to release him - in which case he will probably have to play for even less money.

Warren was most recently released by the Patriots. Oh, that Belichick.

JaVale McGee snookered the media (and everyone else for that matter) into thinking he picked himself up a pair of Platypy via Twitter yesterday. Today Sports Grid reports that it's not true. OF couse, nobody would have put it past him.