Black Knights and Midshipmen can reconnect with old battle buddies and shipmates –- or talk smack to the OpFor — no matter where they are during this weekend’s annual Army-Navy game thanks to a new social media app designed exclusively for sports fans. Dubbed PlayUp, which launched in October for iOS devices, the app provides public and private chat rooms around virtually every sporting event imaginable. But developers are partnering with Military Traveler — another new app created by a Marine Corps Harrier pilot who bills his base guidebook as “Yelp for iPhones” — to do something special for one of…
Author Jon Anderson
Talk about your first-assignment dream job. Freshly minted 2nd Lt. Jeremy Boltus was a last-round pick by the Hamilton Nationals in the Major League Lacrosse draft shortly after graduating from West Point in May. Boltus not only made the squad, he helped lead the Nationals to the league’s championship game Aug. 28 while getting named the league’s Rookie of the Year. The award was based on votes by the head coaches and general managers of all six teams in Major League Lacrosse. Meanwhile, academy officials have carved out a job at West Point as an intern in the school’s athletic department helping train…
When the women’s U.S. Soccer Team arrived for the World Cup playoffs, they were quickly dismissed. Everyone knew who the real contenders were. The Americans didn’t have a chance. But every time Carin Gabarra walked out on the field, she didn’t fret the naysayers. She knew better. “We always expected to win. As a group, we never had doubt in each other,” she says. And they were right. She remembers it like was yesterday, but it was 20 years ago when the U.S. team won the very first World Cup championship against Norway before a crowd of 65,000 at Guangzhou’s…
