Lefty Wyman Carey, another Denver rookie, will be on the mound against veteran John Tsitouris at 8 o'clock Tuesday night.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

*" Calypso " ( song ), a 1975 song by John Denver written as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso

She appeared in a John Denver TV special in 1974.

The FBI has generated files on numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Mickey Mantle, and Gene Autry.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

The Falcons lost Super Bowl XXXIII to John Elway and the Denver Broncos.

* Atomic Train a 1999 Action movie that prominently features the fictional NTSB employee John Seger ( Rob Lowe ) about a runaway train with a nuclear payload speeding to Denver.

* John Denver – Folk singer, born in Roswell

Led largely through the play of quarterback John Elway and a defense that led the AFC in fewest yards allowed, Denver posted an 11-5 regular season record and two narrow playoff victories.

On the Broncos ' first play after receiving the opening kickoff, quarterback John Elway faked a handoff, then spun around and ran in the opposite direction for a 10-yard gain to the Denver 34-yard line.

After forcing Washington to go 3 and out, the Broncos ' scored on their first play from scrimmage, when quarterback John Elway threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to wide open receiver Ricky Nattiel, giving Denver a quick 7 – 0 lead after just 1: 57 had elapsed in the game.

Buffalo then played against Denver Broncos, who were coming off a 26 – 24 win over the Houston Oilers in which quarterback John Elway led them on an 87-yard drive to set up kicker David Treadwell's game-winning field goal with only 16 seconds left.

Aided by quarterback John Elway's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Rod Smith, Denver scored 17 unanswered points to build a 17-3 lead in the second quarter that Atlanta could not recover from.

John Denver sang a disparaging song about visiting Toledo titled " Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio " which was composed by Randy Sparks.

Ultimately the controversy was such that John Denver cancelled a concert shortly thereafter, but when Denver returned for a 1980 concert, he set a one-show attendance record at the venue, Centennial Hall, and sang the song as well to the approval of the crowd.

** John Denver, American musician ( d. 1997 )

* John Denver ( 1943 – 1997 ), singer-songwriter

No guest star ever appeared twice on The Muppet Show, although John Denver appeared both on the show and in two specials ( John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together and John Denver & the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday ).

He announced his support of Democrat, and states rights proponent, John C. Calhoun.

" Even John Goldingay, a proponent of the late date, concedes, " the Greek words hardly necessitate a very late date.

John Wesley was perhaps the clearest English proponent of Arminian theology.

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

However, an important early proponent of a view like this was John Stuart Mill.

John Calvin, also a proponent of this doctrine, taught that " every one who would obtain the righteousness of Christ must renounce his own.

John Quincy Adams, painted above in 1816 by Charles Robert Leslie, was an early proponent of continentalism.

An early proponent of this idea was John Quincy Adams, a leading figure in U. S. expansion between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Polk administration in the 1840s.

Despite Radical Republican associations, John Dahlgren's younger brother Charles G. Dahlgren ( 1811 – 1888 ) was a strong proponent of slave ownership and was a Confederate Brigadier General, Commander of the 3rd Brigade, Army of Mississippi, which he personally funded.

In the early 1410s several Fellows of Oriel took part in the disturbances accompanying Archbishop Arundel's attempt to stamp out Lollardy in the University ; the Lollard belief that religious power and authority came through piety and not through the hierarchy of the Church particularly inflamed passions in Oxford, where its proponent, John Wycliffe, had been head of Balliol.

Famous early residents include: Joshua H. Bean, brother of Judge Roy Bean and the first mayor of San Diego, CA ; Orlando C. Phelps, one of the few surviving members of the Mier Expedition ; Edwin Rainwater, hero of the Texas Revolution ; Edward R. Hord, an influential early South Texas statesman ; and John L. Haynes, a native Virginian politician and writer who was an outspoken anti-secessionist and strong proponent of Mexican-American rights.

Supervised by John Rawls, Nagel has been a long-standing proponent of a Kantian and rationalist approach to moral philosophy.

John Caldwell Holt ( April 14, 1923, New York City-September 14, 1985 ) was an American author and educator, a proponent of homeschooling, and a pioneer in youth rights theory.

He was a politically polarizing figure who, despite initial opposition to Parliamentary tax laws directed at the colonies, came to be identified by John Adams and Samuel Adams as a proponent of hated British taxes.

Chief Justice John Marshall, a strong proponent of the powers of the federal government but also a political opponent of Jefferson, ruled that the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which allows for these sorts of court orders for criminal defendants, did not provide any exception for the president.

Indeed, many of the ideas in the Declaration were taken from the English political philosopher John Locke, himself a proponent of liberalism.

Probably the most important early proponent of the arboretum in the English-speaking transatlantic world was the prolific landscape gardener and writer, John Claudius Loudon ( 1783 – 1843 ) who undertook many gardening commissions and published the Gardener's Magazine, Encyclopaedia of Gardening and other major works.

In 1978, a proponent of busing, Nancy St. John, studied 100 cases of urban busing from the North and did not find what she had been looking for: she found no cases in which significant black academic improvement occurred, but many cases where race relations suffered due to busing, as those in forced-integrated schools had worse relations with those of the opposite race than those in non-integrated schools.

John Craig Eaton, the son of Timothy Eaton, became an early proponent of building a combined store and mail order operation in Winnipeg.

Danish musicians also began to explore free jazz in the 1960s with saxophonist John Tchicai the most prominent proponent.

In Washington, an open split on the issue occurred between Jackson and his vice-president John C. Calhoun, the most effective proponent of the constitutional theory of state nullification.

U. S. President John F. Kennedy was a proponent of speed reading and encouraged his staff to take lessons.

The most influential proponent of the distinction was John Wallis, whose 1653 Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae stated " The rule is ... to express a future event without emotional overtones, one should say I shall, we shall, but you / he / she / they will ; conversely, for emphasis, willfulness, or insistence, one should say I / we will, but you / he / she / they shall ".