ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Broncos owner and CEO Greg Penner said he’s zeroed in on getting shovels in the ground so the team can open its new Denver stadium in 2031 and not in becoming majority owner of Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies.
Penner and his wife, Carrie Walton Penner, bought a 40% interest in the baseball club earlier this year.
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Denver Broncos co-owner Carrie Walton Penner, front, and her husband, team co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner arrive to talk to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Broncos co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Broncos co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Broncos co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
“Right now, we’re just focused on being supportive minority partners," Penner said Tuesday, adding that Rockies chairman & CEO Dick Monfort and owner/general partner Charlie Monfort "are in full control, and we’re going to do what we can to support them.”
Penner also said the Broncos haven't decided whether personal seat licenses will be a part of the new football stadium they're hoping to build at Burnham Yard near downtown Denver.
“Really, it’s the furthest thing from our minds right now," Penner said, noting the site where the team has purchased nearly $200 million in land is "still a ‘preferred’ site, but it's not finalized that we're going to be in that location.
“Obviously, that’s where we really want to be,” Penner said. "So really, we haven’t even gotten to PSLs yet. Our season ticket holders are vital to our organization and we’re going to keep them informed every step of the way once we get there.”
The Broncos this week closed a deal to purchase six parcels owned by a concrete company spanning nearly 10 acres in the northern part of the club’s planned stadium and surrounding mixed-use district at Burnham Yard. SRM Concrete had been one of the longest-running holdouts in the new stadium site but there remains more deals that need to be made within the community and the city to solidify the site as the team's future home, replacing Empower Field at Mile High.
The complexities of building the stadium and mixed-use district near downtown make for a challenging timeline.
“I think everybody involved in the process has the intent to do the right thing, is trying to do the right thing, but it’s a lot of moving pieces, and it is complex," he said. "Our focus is squarely on the 2031 opening and trying to get that done but it’s not going to be easy.”
“You don’t want to start these massive projects without most, or if not all, of your ducks lined up because you’re going to end up spending a lot more money,” Penner explained. "So we’re going to do it right and when we start, we’ll do it expeditiously.”
Penner said renderings of the new stadium are still in the works. It'll have a natural grass field and a retractable roof: “We want the skydivers to be able to land,” he said with a laugh.
On the football front, Penner said he hasn't begun contemplating a long-term extension for quarterback Bo Nix, who's entering his third NFL season, and he said he gave coach Sean Payton a new five-year deal in alignment with GM George Paton's new deal because he likes the way they work together.
Penner spoke at the Broncos' new $175 million headquarters that opened last month. He said he and Carrie Walton Penner gave Dick Monfort a tour of the facility Tuesday.
Penner said becoming a minority investor in the Rockies came about over a series of breakfasts he had with Dick Monfort over the last several years following the Walton Penner group's purchase of the Broncos.
“I think they were ready to bring on a partner, and we couldn’t be more excited about doing something here in the Denver market,” Penner said. "(We) have grown up baseball fans, as well, and as you know, it’s a terrific fan base, ballpark, and we’re really pleased to join the ownership group there.”
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Denver Broncos co-owner Carrie Walton Penner, front, and her husband, team co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner arrive to talk to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Broncos co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Broncos co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Broncos co-owner and chief executive officer Greg Penner talks to reporters at the team's NFL football training camp in Centennial, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
MIAMI (AP) — Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday after he refused to concede the election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and fled the country.
In a circuitous journey, Bolsonaro left for Argentina on Tuesday with his wife and two daughters, then traveled to Ecuador, according to Argentine officials and flight data. The 45-year-old senator, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, visited the White House in May, and the Trump administration approved U.S. visas for him and his family this week.
Bolsonaro’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula before returning to Brazil three months later.
Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil’s Supreme Court, accused of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. The court ordered him to hand over his regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday. It remained unclear whether he complied, but allies said late Tuesday he also has an Italian passport.
On Wednesday, Bolsonaro issued his first comments on his flight in a statement on X, in which he called himself the victim of electoral fraud and political persecution, and again asked for the annulment of the Lula–Alckmin ticket.
“I want to tell not only my 60 million voters but also the Brazilian people as a whole that I am the president-elect, and that the criminals who stole Brazil’s election are part of a criminal organization that has established a tyranny,” he said.
Dressed casually in a dark polo shirt and flanked by his wife and two daughters, Bolsonaro stepped out of the plane shortly after it landed in Miami at about 9:30 a.m. EDT. Florida is home to the largest population of Brazilians in the U.S.
The family fled Brazil late Tuesday, entered Argentina via a border checkpoint and quickly boarded a private charter plane, Argentine immigration officials said.
Flightradar24 showed the plane believed to be carrying Bolsonaro landed in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about 4 a.m. local time, then took off minutes later for Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport.
Before the family landed in Florida, Lula, who turned 81 on Tuesday, spoke to dozens of supporters outside the presidential residence in Brasilia.
“I regret that he left Brazil, because he could have stayed here and proven that the accusations are not true,” Lula said. “This act of leaving Brazil is shameful.”
Bolsonaro’s route through Argentina could deepen diplomatic tensions between Lula’s government and Argentine President Javier Milei, another Trump ally who traveled to Brazil to assist in Bolsonaro’s campaign.
Milei has not commented directly about Bolsonaro's defeat but Juan Pablo Carreira, a presidential spokesperson, said on social media that Milei's administration rescued Bolsonaro “from the claws of communism, which seeks to imprison all opposition figures.”
Representatives of Brazil's government have not responded to requests for comment.
Trump has said Bolsonaro is welcome in the U.S., calling him and his family “fine people.”
“The election was really strange, and I thought it was terrible,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Tuesday. Earlier, Trump also said, without evidence, that the election was “rigged.”
Leaders around the world and the Organization of American States have endorsed the result and congratulated Lula, who was reelected by a margin of about 4.4 million votes in the second and final round.
The U.S. has imposed double-digit sanctions on Brazil, which boasts Latin America’s largest economy. Lula has championed Brazil’s long tradition of nonalignment, cultivating ties with competing powers. His government has deepened trade ties with China and sought greater global influence through BRICS, a group of emerging economies.
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the defeated candidate to surrender his Brazilian passports Monday. In a video, he said he received the order outside the home where his father is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for his attempted coup following his 2022 election loss to Lula.
A Brazilian diplomat, who was not authorized to speak about the matter publicly, told The Associated Press that Bolsonaro used an Italian passport to enter Argentina and that Brazilians leaving the country via a land border are not scrutinized by Brazilian authorities.
The diplomat said Brazil’s federal police were not monitoring Bolsonaro when he left his home in Brasilia because the Supreme Court had not issued a warrant for his arrest.
Flávio Bolsonaro said in a video Monday that he was attempting to organize opposition to the election results among his congressional colleagues. His eight-year term as a senator expires Jan. 31, 2027. His Liberal Party released a statement saying it accepted the election results.
Brazil's Supreme Court is investigating Bolsonaro for allegedly using a sports betting company to launder fraudulent deductions from government pensions paid to senior citizens. In a separate case, he is accused of accepting millions of dollars from a disgraced banker. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing.
Mauricio Savarese reported from Sao Paulo. Associated Press reporters Eléonore Hughes in Rio de Janeiro and Debora Rey in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed.
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Fernanda Bolsonaro along with her husband, Flávio Bolsonaro arrive at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Flávio Bolsonaro arrives at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Flávio Bolsonaro arrives at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Flávio Bolsonaro arrives at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Flávio Bolsonaro arrives at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro speaks after the presidential runoff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
