Air Force coach Troy Calhoun will turn up the heat on his football team today with the Falcons’ first major scrimmage of preseason practice.
“We’re going to go at it pretty good,” Calhoun said. “We’re going to have at least 100 plays in the scrimmage, and by playing everybody involved, we’ll have close to 170 plays. It’s going to be a big day for us.”
The scrimmage is scheduled for 4 p.m. on the practice fields, where the Falcons conducted a lighter workout Tuesday afternoon. Irv Moss, The Denver Post
AFA’S Warzeka on Hornung watch list.
Air Force senior Jonathan Warzeka, a preseason all-Mountain West selection, is one of 50 players on the watch list for the Paul Hornung Award, which goes to the most versatile player in college football.
Warzeka was named the MW preseason special- teams player of the year. He led the league last season in kickoff returns, averaging 28.7 yards.
Phinney keeps lead in Eneco Tour.
Taylor Phinney of Boulder retained the overall lead he grabbed in the prologue with a seventh-place finish Tuesday in the first stage of the Eneco Tour in the Netherlands.
Phinney was able to stay in the lead group of about 15 riders after a crash about a half-mile from the finish line in Sint Willebrord. Andre Greipel of Germany and the Omega Pharma team won the stage.
Phinney’s margin stayed at seven seconds. David Millar of Boulder-based Garmin-Cervelo is third, eight seconds behind.
• Fresh off his ninth-place finish in the Tour de France, Garmin’s Tom Danielson placed fifth in the Tour of Utah prologue, a 1.3-mile uphill climb that parallels the Olympic bobsled course near Park City.
Sergio Henao of Colombia won the stage, and Garmin’s Christian Vande Velde was seventh.
• Garmin lost one of its stars as Thor Hushovd signed a three-year deal, starting in 2012, with BMC Racing. Hushovd won two stages in and wore the Tour de France’s yellow jersey for seven days for Garmin-Cervelo.
