Author: Brent Briggeman
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Air Force removes athletic director Nathan Pine over clash with superintendent
Air Force removes athletic director Nathan Pine, naming Air Force Athletic Corporation CEO Nancy Hixson as his interim replacement. The move comes at the “urging” of outgoing Air Force Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Tony D. Bauernfeind, as ESPN’s Pete Thamel posted Thursday on X. Pine will be paid through the remainder of his contract, which…
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Briggeman | Air Force wise to remain at home in new-look Mountain West
Air Force occupies a familiar place amid today’s college sports realignment news – sitting in a fixed position, watching the changes rotate around it like new constellations. On Wednesday a new Pac-12 will be born. Air Force’s longtime Mountain West foes Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State will join…
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Air Force’s Texas Tanner falls 0.23 meters short of NCAA title, takes silver in hammer
In an event measured in dozens of meters, Air Force’s Texas Tanner fell centimeters short of an NCAA championship. The senior threw 75.45 meters on his fifth hammer attempt at Hayward Stadium in Eugene, Ore., on Wednesday afternoon. The throw briefly placed him in the lead. But Minnesota’s Angelos Mantzouranis was next up and threw…
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Air Force women’s basketball adds assistant Mackenzie Head
Mackenzie Head is joining the Air Force women’s basketball coaching staff, coming to Stacy McIntyre’s staff after spending the past three seasons at New Mexico. Head was responsible for player development with the Lobos and oversaw the team’s offensive playmaking and production. She has also coached with the men’s program at her alma mater, Bethel…
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Colorado Springs native Anna Willis enters NCAA Track and Field Championships as No. 2 seed in pole vault
Anna Willis has long been associated with impressive groups, but her journey in the pole vault has somewhat ironically been marked with loneliness. That’s not the case for her now at South Dakota – “Pole Vault University,” she calls it – and that’s part of the reason the Colorado Springs native could come home this…
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Local product Hannah Everson named to 2026 Air Force Athletics Hall of Fame class
Colorado Springs native Hannah Everson, a Liberty graduate who became a three-time All-American at Air Force, was part of the academy’s 2026 athletics hall of fame class. Everson, a 2015 Air Force graduate, finished third in the 10,000-meter run at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships and is the first runner in program history to earn…
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Air Force opens Mountain West Baseball Tournament with 17-2 drubbing of UNLV
Things are probably going well when a team can get six RBIs from the 9-hole hitter. And sure enough, everything was right with Air Force baseball on Thursday. The third-seeded Falcons pounded No. 6 UNLV 17-2 in the opening round of the Mountain West tournament, advancing past a single-elimination play-in round as one of four…
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Pikes Peak International Raceway closing following 2026 season
Pikes Peak International Raceway, a fixture in the area for nearly 30 years, announced it will be closing following the 2026 season. The raceway announced Tuesday evening via social media that the property will be targeted for mixed-use development, with more information expected later next year. “This isn’t goodbye just yet,” the post read. “We…
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State track & field championships | Top three finishers from Pikes Peak region
Results from the Colorado Track and Field Championships in Lakewood. SATURDAY Boys 110 hurdles 5A 3. Caiden Crosby, Pine Creek, 14.20 4A 110 hurdles 3. Nathan Moller, Palmer Ridge, 14.45 100 1. Gavin Reddick, Canon City, 10.61 200 1,600 3. Oliver Horton, Coronado, 4:10.19 400 3. Riley Cole, Cheyenne Mountain, 48.15 4×100 meter relay 4×400…
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Briggeman | An open letter to Megan Paisley, a hurdler who came up 0.07 seconds short of a spot at state track
Dear Megan, Your efforts this season did not fall short, even if the stopwatch cruelly leads you to believe otherwise. I love sports, but I also know that sports – on their own – are a little silly. Boys and girls running around quarter-mile ovals, throwing balls, tackling each other … without context it’s all…