Navy Midshipmen NCAA Football News

Head coach: Ken Niumatalolo 2nd year: 8-6 Returning Lettermen: Off. 10, Def. 15, ST 2 Lettermen Lost: 28 Ten Best Navy Players 1. NG Nate Frazier, Sr.

The 2009 season begins September 5, with one of the headliners being an interesting matchup: Ohio State vs Navy in Columbus, Ohio.

62 . What I said in last year's preview : Many critics will point to Johnson leaving for Georgia Tech as a sign of impending doom for the Navy program, and while his departure may signal an eventual downturn, Navy is still in fine shape for another winning season and bowl appearance.

I'm leading this week's mailbag with the story of a player committed to giving back.

Not every question was answered during spring practice, and every school has at least one big, vexing query that hangs over its program.

Margaret Steele Rahn and Alex Conrad Horne were married June 6, 2009, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem. The couple exchanged vows in a 5:00 p.m. ceremony before the Rev.

The Army-Navy football game will be held in Philadelphia for five of the next eight years, beginning in 2010.

Cornerback Darius Terry has been dismissed from the Navy football team due to a violation of team rules.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy At precisely 10:04 a.m. Friday, every person present inside the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium had their eyes trained ...

Maybe it was my imagination, but it seemed President Obama's smile grew even broader whenever an African-American graduate walked up the ramp toward him at the Naval Academy's commissioning ceremony Friday.

Navy's football team got better yesterday without holding a practice or any other type of team function.

It returns enough starters and made the right moves on the coaching staff to make that happen.

When the New England Patriots signed three Midshipmen from the Naval Academy to contracts, I was curious.

Government investigators began sorting through the Dallas Cowboys' flattened practice facility in Irving, Texas yesterday, trying to figure out why fierce winds sent the tentlike structure crashing down during a rookie workout session.

The New England Patriots have signed eight players, including three from Navy will likely won't be available immediately.

The Army men and Bucknell women led the field Friday after the first day of the 2009 Patriot League Championships, held at Army's Shea Stadium in West Point, N.Y. Army junior Kim Mallard was crowned the first individual champion of the day after winning the hammer throw with a toss of 52.99m . Lehigh sophomore Emily Settle was the event runner up ...

Draft weekend with all its wheeling and dealing is over in New England. Bill Belichick's new dirty dozen is on the way to Foxborough for a mini-camp taste of life as a professional.

Navy has signed an agreement to appear in the 2013 Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Tex.

Navy suffered some key losses on the offensive side of the ball, but Ricky Dobbs is the kind of player who can make things very exciting, which he did last year.

Navy opens the 2009 season at Ohio State and also has road games at Pittsburgh and Notre Dame.