Army coach Rich Ellerson devised a simple defensive plan.
He stacked nearly all of his players on the line of scrimmage. He wanted to silence Air Force’s run game. He dared the Falcons to...Full story
The Falcons are in the middle of a long, tense football season, and players don’t have time to indulge in brotherly pageantry.
Today, Air Force tangles with Army in another chapter of a service-academy rivalry. Falcon Stadium will be jammed.... Full story
FORT COLLINS • Tim Jefferson walks quietly through the rah-rah, ridiculously emotional world of college football.
His unbending calm confuses his Air Force teammates. They want him to shout and instead he talks in his flat Georgia drawl.... Full story
Last season, Carmelo Anthony led the NBA’s second-best team.
This season, he’s ready to lead the NBA’s best team.
This, I know, is a radical assertion for Anthony and the Denver Nuggets. The Los Angeles Lakers are... Full story
SALT LAKE CITY • Troy Calhoun once taught an underachieving team how to win.
That was 2007, when he transformed Air Force’s losing football culture.
Coach, it’s time to teach again.
No doubt, Calhoun and his Falcons delivered a... Full story
SAN DIEGO • Fear the team that no one feared.
After the Denver Broncos’ sometimes methodical, sometimes sensational win over the San Diego Chargers, it’s time to dive into the pool of belief.
The Broncos rank near the top of the... Full story
Troy Calhoun is mired in mediocrity at midseason, and he has a simple goal as he prepares for the six-game stretch that will define 2009.
He was standing on Air Force’s practice field on a chilly afternoon earlier this week while talking... Full story
Talk about irony. NFL owners, who are almost all rich, white guys, won’t let Rush Limbaugh into their exclusive club.
For liberals — and I know there are five or six hiding out there in the Pikes Peak region — this is delicious.... Full story
DENVER • Huston Street was talking to himself.
“One more great pitch,” he said. “You’re one more pitch from getting out of this.”
He never threw that one pitch. That’s why Colorado Rockies fans booed him... Full story
DENVER • All hail the Boy Wonder.
On Sunday, Josh McDaniels conquered Bill Belichick and the few skeptics who remained of his Denver Broncos and his football philosophy.
A few moments after the Broncos ultra-dramatic, come-from-behind... Full story
Goose Gossage understands one of life’s great truths.
“Baseball’s not meant to be played in cold weather,” Goose said.
He spoke the words two years ago, as the Colorado Rockies prepared to play in a frigid postseason game... Full story