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LINCICOME: Sports will go on, just without the Rocky : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News
I didn't read the News today. Oh, boy. Nor tomorrow and tomorrow. What comes to mind is poetry, how absurd. Lines that were committed to memory for a college grade back when the written word had value, a B-minus as I recall. Stop all the clocks, shut off the telephone . . . let the mourners ...
Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday : Rocky for sale : The Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday : Rocky for sale : The Rocky Mountain ...
rockymountainnews.com — Executives from E.W. Scripps Co., announce their decision on the future of the Rocky Mountain News in... the 150-year-old newspaper's newsroom on 2/26/09 in Denver. In December 2008, the Rocky's parent company put the paper up for sale, citing ... (more) Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition ...
Goodbye, Colorado : Rocky for sale : The Rocky Mountain News
Goodbye, Colorado : Rocky for sale : The Rocky Mountain News
rockymountainnews.com — It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life... of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over. Thousands of men and women have worked at this newspaper since William Byers produced its first edition ... (more) Goodbye, Colorado : Rocky for sale : The Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Mountain News closing after Friday edition - Yahoo! Finance
finance.yahoo.com — DENVER (AP) -- The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's oldest newspaper and a Denver fixture since 1859, will... publish its last edition Friday. Owner E.W. Scripps Co. said Thursday the newspaper lost $16 million last year and the company was unable to ... (more) Rocky Mountain News closing after Friday edition - ...

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The Biz of Baseball: The Rocky Mountain News Folds. Ringolsby Reflects
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Biz of Baseball: The Rocky Mountain News Folds. Ringolsby Reflects Lincicome and Krieger say goodbye… “Since mid-January we have been waiting for this announcement so it was pretty much expected.” Ringolsby said when reached by email late Thursday evening. “For myself it was a sense of relief because there is closure. But overall a real concern and fear for a lot of my co-workers. We’ve got people in the office with families, kids at home. Those people have the real challenge in a business that is shrinking, knowing they have a family to raise.” Unlike ...

Friday Megalinkage, Part II
Fang's Bites — ... of his beloved Rocky. Rocky Mountain News sports columnist Bernie Lincicome says sports in Denver will go on, but without the RMN. There's ...

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