The Naval Academy will host an all-day SportsCenter extravaganza Friday in honor of the show’s annual Veterans Day tribute, ahead of Saturday’s home game against Hawaii. Starting at 9 a.m. Eastern, tune in to ESPN for interviews with Commandant of Midshipmen Capt. Bill Byrne, Superintendent Vice Adm. Mike Miller, Navy football head coach Ken Niumatalolo and assorted midshipmen throughout the day, live from the T-Court on campus. Cameras will also catch mids at noon meal formation, and later on, ESPN will air pre-taped interviews from mids in a segment called “Why I’m Here.” According to the Navy football website, ESPN might…
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There are no sure things in baseball. But if your minor-league club has a leadership award, and it also has an Naval Academy graduate on the roster who is four years older than everybody else on the team, and he’s got an earned-run average under 1.00, well … To no one’s surprise, the State College (Pa.) Spikes honored Reserve Lt. Mitch Harris with the Spikes Leadership Award late last month, a few weeks before wrapping up their season with a 4-3 loss to the Tri-City ValleyCats in Game 3 of the best-of-3 New York-Penn League Championship Series. Harris, a reliever…
The Naval Academy announced today that defensive end Joshua Jones has left the team. Coach Ken Niumatalolo said in a statement that Jones decided to focus on finishing his graduation requirements and wished him well. Jones appeared in nine games in 2011, recording 25 tackles and one sack. Navy’s spring game is April 14 and the Mids open the season against Notre Dame in Dublin, Ireland, on Sept 1. H/T Collegefootball Talk
Well, we knew it was coming eventually. But if reports from two major sports news outlets are accurate, the Naval Academy will make it official soon, joining the Big East as a football-only member in 2015. Both CBSSports.com and ESPN.com are reporting an announcement is imminent; CBS says it’ll come Tuesday. The move would give the Big East 11 football members for the 2015 season and be the latest in a series of shakeups: By the time Navy joins up, Pitt, Syracuse and West Virginia will be out and Boise State, Houston, Southern Methodist, Central Florida and San Diego State…
A former Naval Academy runner is back on track, representing the U.S. this week at the Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro. Ensign Andrew Hanko of Montville, N.J., the three-time Patriot League champion in the 5,000 meters, graduated from the academy last month, and he’s been training in Annapolis while he awaits nuclear-power school in Charleston, S.C., which begins in September. Hanko is running the 5,000 in the quadrennial competition; preliminaries are being held Thursday and Friday, with the finals on Saturday. Read more about Hanko in Jane Havsy’s story on the Daily Record of Morris County’s website.
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…
Marshall University announced on its website today that it will play a two-game football series against Navy in 2016 and 2018. The 2016 game will be at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Sept. 3; the teams will meet Oct. 13, 2018, in Huntington, W.Va. “We are very excited in the future to host a program with the history and tradition of the U.S. Naval Academy,” Marshall AD Mike Hamrick said. Marshall went 5-7 (4-4 Conference USA) last season. The Thundering Herd are a bit removed from their salad days, where Randy Moss, Chad Pennington and Byron Leftwich beat up on…
