They pass the ball about as often as you’ll a bargain at Annapolis Mall, they don’t play in a conference, and you’ll never be able to follow their standout players to the NFL. Nothing about the Navy football team screams “pay attention to me.” But we should. The entire DMV should. Technorati Tags: Naval Academy
Maybe it’s a bit of a tribute to his late father, maybe they are just quality players. Whatever the reason, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick can’t get enough of Navy football players, having signed three from the Academy who each have military commitments ahead of them. Technorati Tags: Naval Academy, New England Patriots
What were we thinking all this time? The key to football isn’t toughness, mental fortitude and execution. The Army shows us that the true key to victory is a sexually-suggestive spirit video. Technorati Tags: Naval Academy
…Or maybe just better than I thought they were. Both the Maryland Terrapins and the Washington Redskins went on the road to face heavily favored opponents in the Clemson Tigers and Dallas Cowboys. Both teams had offenses that played above expectations, and defenses to hold potent offensive attacks in check. And both teams made me [...]
D.C. will host a bowl game for the first time this December, and that’s a good thing if you are a sworn enemy of the ACC. The Congressional Bowl will feature the Navy Midshipmen against the ACC’s ninth place, bowl eligible team. The ACC had eight bowl-eligible teams last year, and their ninth place squad [...]
The Naval Academy ended an NCAA-record losing streak to Notre Dame on Saturday, with a dramatic 46-44 triple overtime victory in South Bend. The juxtaposition of this game? It’s not the biggest victory of the Naval Academy’s history, and it’s not the biggest upset in the history of Fighting Irish football. Prior to the contest, [...]
Despite the crying done by the Naval Academy regarding Maryland’s 2006 choice of bowl appearance, the two programs have agreed to meet on the football field in 2010. The game will be played at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on September 4, 2010. The previous meeting between the two teams was close in margin, and [...]
Great piece in today’s Washington Post about small Baltimore-Washington area colleges and their wallet-friendly entertainment value. Amy Orndorff does a great job of going beyond the sporting aspect of teams like Navy, Gallaudet University and Morgan State, and captures the nuances of fan interactivity and the true showmanship and history of college football. A sample: [...]
The Midshipmen are just fine partying on their own. As such, the football program has no designs to join the Big East despite numerous overtures from the depleted football conference. Seems the Middies are perfectly satisfied with getting trounced twice a year by Notre Dame and one other power conference fill-in-the-blank, and competing against eight [...]
