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The cover of the 1942 Army-Navy game program.
Too early for Army-Navy talk? Nonsense! So what if Navy still has one more game left before playing Army. From now until Dec. 12, it’s all about Army-Navy. Well, maybe not, but since this is the the game that truly matters for these two ...
Other
Bringham Young defensive end Jan Jorgensen, pictured tackling Air Force quarterback Ben Cochran, said at a press conference before playing Air Force that the Falcons play "legal, but dirty." (AP photo)
At least that is what their opponents are saying.
Just two weeks after a ...
NCAA Football
Jan Jorgensen
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Brian Stann, a former Marine captain who earned the Silver Star while commanding a platoon in Iraq, will fight Rodney Wallace on Dec. 5 in Las Vegas. (BrianStann.com photo)
Three months after disposing of nemesis Steve Cantwell to earn his first UFC victory, former Marine Brian Stann will ...
MMA & Boxing
The Ultimate Fighter
Brian Stann
UFC
Quinton Jackson
Navy's Ricky Dobbs scores a touchdown against Delaware in the second half of Navy's 35-18 win over Delaware. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
Longtime Washington Post columnist Thomas Boswell gives some love to the Navy football team and star quarterback Ricky Dobbs in Saturday’s Post . Boswell ...
NCAA Football
Vikings quarterback Brett Favre has led his club to an 8-1 record and the NFC North Division lead. (Andy King / The Associated Press)
Seems like Wisconsin National Guard troops who love the Green Bay Packers can’t get away from needling about Brett Favre’s resurgent season in ...
NFL
Brett Favre
Green Bay Packers
Iraq
New York Jets
Ski and snowboarders get off the lift on top of Hillberg Ski Area at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, last year. (AF photo)
Your base might have a golf course, but does it have a ski slope? Airmen at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska and Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, can make that claim. ...
NCAA Basketball
Senior forward Chris Walker is one of seven seniors looking to break Army’s streak of losing seasons. (Army photo)
Going into this season everything looked on track to break Army’s streak of 15 straight losing seasons. Seven seniors and five juniors return to a team ...
NCAA Basketball
Super-joint: A Marine Corps space shuttle pilot drove a NASCAR pace car out of an Army Reserve CH-47 Nov. 8 at Texas Motor Speedway // AP Photo
Sure, you learn to fly the space shuttle and all of a sudden no vehicle is off limits to you — let’s say, for example, you wanted to ...
Autos
Senior forward Evan Parker (AF photo)
It’s not all about football here at After Action. We’ll give equal attention to the hard court. And unless no one has noticed, each one of the service academy basketball teams have already tipped off their seasons. This week we’ll take ...
NCAA Football
Army's Alejandro Villanueva catches a 7 Yd Pass from quarterback Trent Steelman in its win over VMI at Michie Stadium. (Army photo)
This week was a let down. Last weekend featured the Army/Air Force showdown with ESPN Gameday on the sideline and Navy’s historic upset of Notre Dame. ...
NCAA Football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame associate head coach Corwin Brown addresses the media. (AP photo)
Look to the left. There sits the world’s sorest loser and the only man with worse PR instincts than Redskins owner Dan Snyder.
Notre Dame associate head coach Corwin Brown decided that he’d spend his ...
NCAA Football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The late, great Ted Williams flew combat missions over Korea in 1953 during a hiatus from his career with the Boston Red Sox. //The Associated Press
Todays is Veterans Day, and that means plenty of publications that rarely write about military life are giving thanks to the U.S. military.
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MLB
Ted Williams
Korea
Boston Red Sox
President Obama awarded the trophy last year to the Midshipmen.
Army threatened to make it a race.With a win last Saturday over Air Force, the Black Knights would have set up a winner take all matchup with Navy on Dec. 12 in Philadelphia. And after ending the first half knotted at seven, it ...
NFL
Kansas City Chiefs
ESPN's Mike and Mike will board the USS New York, which Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, a 9/11 first responder , sits in front of during her commissioning ceremony Nov. 7 (AP photo)
Apparently $1 billion only buys a face for radio.
Yes, three days after the Navy introduced ...
Other
ESPN
Mike Golic
Mike Greenberg
SportsCenter
Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo, left, reacts with safety Emmett Merchant following a turnover by Notre Dame during the third quarter of the teams' Nov. 7 game in South Bend, Ind. Navy beat Notre Dame for the second time in three seasons, 23-21.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a win worthy of ...