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Navy running back Eli Heidenreich runs for a touchdown in the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against South Florida, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

No. 25 Tulane visits Navy with chance to clinch a spot in the AAC title game vs. Army

Navy (7-2, 5-1) still has a shot to play for the conference championship, but this is an elimination game with one of the team’s preseason goals at stake.

A football player shouts in celebration.

No. 18 Army extends nation’s longest winning streak to 13 with 14-3 win over North Texas

Quarterback Bryson Daily ran for 153 yards and two touchdowns, and No. 18 Army extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 13 games with a 14-3 victory over North Texas.

A man stands in the center of a sparse baseball diamond.

As Shohei Ohtani takes center stage, remembering baseball at Manzanar prison camp

In 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that officials used to pull Japanese Americans from their homes, force them to sell their property and imprison them in internment camps for years. Baseball, the most American of sports, served as a desperately needed diversion.

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New York Giants' Willie Mays poses for a photo during baseball spring training in 1972. Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. Mays' family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night, June 18, 2024, he had “passed away peacefully” Tuesday afternoon surrounded by loved ones.

Willie Mays, baseball star of prodigious power and grace, dies at 93

Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants in the 1950s and ’60s whose powerful bat, superb athletic grace and crafty baseball acumen earned him a place with Babe Ruth atop the game’s roster of historic greats, died June 18. He was 93.

US President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Los Angeles Lakers basketball legend Jerry Alan West in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 5, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Jerry West, Lakers legend and architect of ‘Showtime’ era, dies at 86

Jerry West, the legendary Lakers player and later coach and general manager who took the team to stunning heights season after season but could never quite satisfy his own impossibly high standards, has died.

Caleb Williams (13) of the USC Trojans is flushed from the pocket by Laiatu Latu (15) of the UCLA Bruins during the second half of a game at United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Nov. 18, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images/TNS)

Final NFL mock draft: Projecting every first-round pick

This first round of the NFL draft, which begins Thursday, will start with a quarterbacking bang, but offensive line and wide receiver are also areas of strength.

Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog speaks at the Tokyo American Club in January 1988.

Whitey Herzog, Hall of Fame old-school manager of Cardinals and Royals, dies at 92

With a flattop haircut, pointed opinions and a Midwestern sensibility, Whitey Herzog, an Army veteran, forged a Hall of Fame career managing Major League Baseball’s two Missouri teams by implementing a style that bears little resemblance to today’s game.

The Navy Midshipmen are working on installing a new offense during spring practice.

Navy football makes progress on installing hybrid Wing-T offense during spring practice

By far the biggest story line of Navy football spring camp has been the installation of a new offensive by first-year offensive coordinator Drew Cronic.

2 Army soldiers double their chances for Olympic gold in shooting

Army Sgts. Sagen Maddalena and Ivan Roe have doubled their chances at scoring an Olympic medal this summer in Paris.

Soldiers earn trip to Paris on US Olympic shooting team; more spots at stake this week

Staff Sgts. Rachel Tozier and Will Hinton of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit qualified for the Games in trap shooting during USA Shooting’s Shotgun Olympic Trials.

Army’s Max DiDomenico goes over Navy wide receiver Cody Howard to intercept a pass during the first quarter of an NCAA football game at Gillette Stadium Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Foxborough, Mass.

Army-Navy Game could be impacted by the advent of a 12-team playoff

The expansion of the College Football Playoff to 12 teams has put the stand-alone status of Army-Navy in jeopardy again.

Marine veteran John Jones and Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

Miami Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa sending decorated Marine to Super Bowl

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is teaming with USAA and the Marine Corps Association to send Marine veteran John Jones, a former staff sergeant from Colorado, to next weekend’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas.