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Falcons halfback tightens grip on football, position

LARAMIE, Wyo. - Chad Hall looks like the ideal candidate to play halfback for a junior high team. He's 5-foot-7 and says he weighs 175 pounds. But don't let his frame fool you. He's the prime reason Air Force's wishbone offense is terrifying defenses again. ...

Tags: Air Force, CAREER, coach, football, PRODUCTIVITY, punch, Wyoming

Research articles 2006-09-24

Air Force can't fumble away season

Why has the Air Force football team transformed from winner to loser in the past two seasons? Just follow the bouncing ball. The Falcons have fumbled 52 times in the past 22 games. The fumbles have doomed drives, turned wins to losses and irritated...

Tags: Air Force, football, Games, PRODUCTIVITY

Research articles 2006-08-31

Air Force's Perez has come a long way

All Gilberto Perez heard growing up in a Cuban neighborhood in Tampa, Fla., was football was for animals. The son of two Cuban-born immigrants, Perez heard it from his baseball-crazy friends, and relatives and his parents. Even on the day he came home as...

Tags: Air Force, football, Games, PRODUCTIVITY

Research articles 2004-08-10

August Airman now available

8/5/2003 - SAN ANTONIO AFPN  -- The August issue of Airman features aces, snipers at Bashur Airfield, the upcoming Air Force Academy football season and road maintenance airmen in a Washington national forest. These stories and more can be found in this months magazine, now available in print and online. Ace in the...

Tags: Afghanistan, Air Force, football, Games, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY

Research articles 2003-08-05

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BYU, Utah football: Battles within the battle

Editor's note: This is the second of a four-part series exploring the battles within the war. UTAH'S RUNNING BACKS: Matt Asiata and Darrell Mack have proven to be a productive duo at tailback. Through 11 games, they've combined to rush for 1,126 yards and 13 touchdowns. The...

Articles 2008-11-19

Ambience was there but production wasn't

DENVER - All the pomp and circumstance was there. Banners lined the fences and walls on 20th Street, which runs just south of Coors Field. Fans were lining up to get inside the stadium more than 41/2 hours before the game's 2:05...

Articles 2008-04-05

Title race hinges on QBs

You could make a case that the Mountain West Conference football race hinges on the play of three quarterbacks. If BYU's Max Hall avoids turnovers, stays productive and rides the back of a very good Cougar defense, he'll have the Cougars repeat champions. If...

Articles 2007-10-27

Calhoun welcomes role as head cheerleader

Air Force football coach Troy Calhoun has issued a challenge to the academy's sports marketing staff: Wear me out. Many coaches want to be involved only with on-field issues, but Calhoun embraces the political portion of his position. So he's ready to give speeches to boosters,...

Articles 2007-06-24

Collectible Concepts Group, Inc. To Establish Shopping Mall Kiosks

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. -- Collectible Concepts Group, Inc. (OTCBB:CCNG) has announced that it will begin marketing its line of licensed products through company owned kiosks at popular shopping malls. The kiosks will be wholly owned and operated by the company, and will feature CCNG's unique sports and military licensed items bearing...

Articles 2007-06-13

Ehn receiving Hobey Baker support

Air Force forward Eric Ehn, who has led the nation in scoring for much of the season, is among the 10 players on the Hobey Baker Award watch list conducted by College Sports Television. Like college football's Heisman Trophy, the Hobey Baker Award is college hockey's...

Articles 2007-01-18

Robert Yde.(Obituaries)(Obituary)(Brief article)

Television syndication industry veteran Robert Yde died Dec. 18 in Longwood, Fla., of malignant melanoma. He was 71. Yde and wife Cassie ran the Television Syndication Co., a Longwood-based TV program distributor known for its children's and lifestyle programming. ...

Articles 2006-12-27

For the love of the game Three local products decided on Air Force despite school having mandatory military commitment.(Sports)

Byline: Adam Rittenberg Daily Herald Sports Writer When Bobby Giannini received a questionnaire from the Air Force Academy as a high school junior, he shook his head. "I don't want to be in the military," he said. But Giannini, a...

Articles 2006-11-11

Air force print news : small diameter bomb certified for operational test, evaluation

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- 19! 23! 35! 37! 20! No, that's not a football audible at the line of scrimmage, but the accomplishments of the Small Diameter Bomb Program: the number of months--19--from the system design and development contract award to the first production contract award; the number...

Articles 2006-01-01

U. season ticket sales top 21,000

It could be a record year for Utah football at the turnstiles. Earlier this week, season ticket sales exceeded 21,000 for just the second time in Rice-Eccles Stadium history. The Utes are now approximately 500 shy of breaking the all-time record of 21,510 set...

Articles 2005-08-27

With one fell swoosh, Air Force has a deal

The Nike swoosh is almost as prevalent on the uniforms of Air Force Academy sports teams as the lightning bolt or the Falcon. The shoe and apparel company has had an exclusive deal with the academy to outfit the school's football team since 2002 and its...

Articles 2005-04-17

Paul Eugene Giek.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

Paul Eugene Giek of Arlington Heights A memorial service for Paul Eugene Giek, 72, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Kisselburg-Wauconda Funeral Home, 235 N. Main St., Wauconda. Interment will be in Wauconda Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the...

Articles 2004-11-24

McArthur matures into team player

BERKELEY -- Football is a game of physical strength, but Geoff McArthur's biggest growth at Cal didn't occur in the weight room. Football also requires the proper mental approach, and McArthur's maturity has been his most noticeable improvement, even more impressive than his pass receiving achievements...

Articles 2004-09-09

Preventing ads from going on the offensive; sportswear manufacturer Diadora is embarking on a damage-limitation campaign after using images from the Bradford fire in an ad. It is not alone in making such blunders.

As unfortunate mistakes go, Italian sportswear company Diadora topped the league last week. It was forced to pull its pan-European television ad campaign called "The World Needs to Play More" after inadvertently using images from the 1985 Bradford City fire disaster which killed 56 people, as it attempted to show...

Articles 2004-07-08

Air Force calls off spring intrasquad exhibition

Air Force has scrapped its end-of-spring Blue-Silver football game, and the Falcons will practice instead, coach Fisher DeBerry said Monday. Air Force's annual intrasquad game remains scheduled for April 15, but a practice and scrimmage will take its place, DeBerry said. The...

Articles 2004-03-30

New Air Force athletic director has best of both worlds

Some people dream of traveling to space. Michael Bloomfield's done that, but when he was an Air Force Academy cadet 23 years ago, he dreamed of becoming the academy's athletic director. The former Air Force football player and NASA astronaut can now say he's done both....

Articles 2004-03-02