Author: Brent Briggeman

COLORADO SPRINGS • North Dakota State walked into the Mountain West like it owned the place. The Bison topped Air Force 38-32 before a Falcon Stadium crowd of 25,970 that included large patches of yellow and green on hand for the team’s conference debut. The dominant team at the FCS level for the past two…

Fisher DeBerry can certainly draw a crowd, which makes him the ideal face to greet those entering Falcon Stadium. With hundreds in attendance on Friday including his wife, Luann, their whole family down to the great-grandkids and a massive throng of former Falcon football players, DeBerry witnessed the unveiling of his statue outside the east…

Much has been made of the Mountain West’s new look. This was not, after all, a subtle trim. Add North Dakota State, Northern Illinois and UTEP, subtract Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State and the appearance becomes drastically different. And from most perspectives, it is drastically diminished. There’s not…

On the recently vacated second floor of an office building near Interquest Parkway and Voyager Parkway, a pair of budding sports broadcast journalists once honed their craft. Stormy Buonantony will serve as ESPN’s college football sideline reporter Saturday as Georgia Tech meets Tennessee. Last week she covered Alabama’s opener. She’s already booked for the 2027…

Air Force opens Mountain West play as conference newcomer North Dakota State travels to Falcon Stadium for a late-night showdown. Air Force (1-0) vs. North Dakota State (2-0) Kickoff: 8 p.m. Saturday at Falcon Stadium TV/Stream: FS1 – channel 11.1 in Colorado Springs on Comcast/Infinity (Channel 55/775 HD), DirecTV (Channel 219) and Dish (Channel 150). The game…

The intriguing aspects of Saturday’s Air Force vs. North Dakota State showdown are magnified by the unusual number of unknowns. With the Bison so new to the FBS level — the announcement that they’d be joining the Mountain West in football came just seven months ago — after spending the past two decades in FCS…

The exact name for Air Force’s offense is up for debate. The impact is not. It’s most frequently called the triple option, but there are few play calls that actually fit that description. It is certainly not the wishbone or any other name drawn from the look of the formation, as the Falcons operate from…

Air Force punter Will Duncan leans on box breathing to calm his nerves. Three seconds in, hold for three seconds, three seconds out. He finds it slows the heart rate, allows him to fully think through what he’s doing. Then he tried it in front of more than 27,000 people. “Definitely easier said than done,”…

Max Mustell already has four career interceptions through the first game of his sophomore year, but the free safety doesn’t claim to have expected that or any of his other early success at Air Force. “I actually only had one pick on varsity,” Mustell said of his high school interception tally. To put Mustell’s four…

Air Force graduate Sam Kulasingam enjoyed a record performance in the minor leagues on Sunday. Kulasingam set franchise records for Northwest Arkansas, Kansas City’s Double-A affiliate, with six hits (tying the mark) and eight RBIs. It was part of a game that saw the Naturals establish team records for runs (24) and hits (29). They…