Why in the hell would the American agree to something like this?

The National Champions get underway this Saturday v The Mount at Prusmack Rugby Center at noon.
navysports.com has a link to free video.
There are four matches scheduled in March before the National Championship playoffs.

Also, the Good Guys will travel West to face Cal on 16 March at Cal at 3pm.
There is usually a nice tailgate, almost as good as those provided by bags.

The Ladies get underway on 3 March in Frostburg, Md. to start the 7s competition. Details are still being worked out.

Go Navy Rugby!

Two young men who play hard, practice hard and set great examples for teammates....

The Wrestle Offs are underway at Dahlgren.
navysports.com has a link to the video.

The head of the NCAA is proposing to allow the richest schools to separate themselves and pay all athletes directly. This will end college sports as we currently know it.

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Looks like Mel Tucker might be the first domino to fall.

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Was I the only one who didn't know until today? (If you're wondering, Google it)

Womens Tennis and Golf win the Patriot League.... Baseball completes a sweep of Lehigh....

Since no had started a thread I will. Lose four starters and they start 4-0. Dont want to jinx them with huge games ahead here, Richmond up next, but this team is good and deserves the support.

Flew up to Annapolis to go to practice Friday and Saturday. Friday was more of a walkthrough, but Saturday was at the stadium and full throttle. I know I tend to be optimistic but overall I came away impressed. The offense is still running the basic stuff but they're getting good at it. The defense is ahead of them but they have their hands full. Some impressions:

- Horvath was running with the ones and Woodson the twos. Both of them have the potential to be stars in this offense. A lot of the misdirection is designed to put the quarterbacks in space, and they seem like they're taking advantage of it. Woodson had two long TD runs where he just made the most of a running lane and turned on the jets. They both look confident in what they're doing.

- The chatter about Horvath's improved passing isn't an exaggeration. He looks like a different player. I wouldn't exactly call it pinpoint accuracy, but he is absolutely a competent passer, at least based on what I saw.

- The passing game in general was impressive. It's definitely different from the option passing game of the last two decades... Watch old Delaware videos and you'll get the idea. There were several big plays. Heidenreich in particular was making plays downfield but he wasn't alone. There are still a lot of question marks about wide receivers since so many of them are out, but even with slots lining up at WR half the time, the passing game was effective.

- Thomas Scully looked like an actual TE and had a nice jumping TD catch. Lots of talk about Cody Howard's potential at the position when he returns. All the TEs seemed comfortable blocking (at least to my untrained eye) but we may get to see them stretch the field a little bit too.

- William Ingle was filling in at #3 QB and no joke, he looked like a competent QB. I wouldn't want him to start, and his passing was sort of like Fulton Reed slapshots, but he had a few good-looking runs. You don't often see a QB wearing #42 lol.

- Shane Reynolds was the FB running with the threes and he had some big runs. Big praise in general for both Fofana and Tecza, not that anyone will be surprised by that.

- I spent most of practice watching the offense since that's what's new, but the defense looked typically solid. Coach Volker singled out Job Grant in particular as having a fantastic spring at linebacker.

- Saw Cummings, Self, Bouton, and Purvis as the first-team OL. Didn't catch the fifth player. Saw Foulger, Nichols, and Crawford with the twos but my voice to text failed to get the other two numbers (sorry).

- Isaiah Bryant has been having a good spring at slotback. Also heard complimentary things about Amin Hassan and Brandon Chatman. Saw Bryant and Tyler Bradley running with the twos and Gaskins/Heidenreich with the ones although it was hard to track because there were also slots filling in at receiver.

Overall, plenty of reasons to be optimistic based on what I saw, but a lot of work to be done too.

This will probably hit hardest with the folks on here who were high schoolers or Mids during the 90s.

There was a text based game you could load on to your graphing calculator (mine was a TI-85, but 82s, 83s, etc. also worked). It involved the premise of buying low and selling high drugs like weed, acid, coke, etc. Many a class were passed playing it while half listening.

Anyway, I got on a rabbit hole for text based games today and came across this Wired article from 2021.


John Dell, class of 89, wrote the original program as a sophomore in high school. Then re-wrote it into DOS. It took off from there and became a staple of calculator gaming long before smartphones were a thing.

Anyway, neat little story for a Sunday afternoon.

Put on Hopkins game espn+...down 6-1 in the first...Navy up 9-7 end of 3rd

Never mind... should have known. Lawfox on the job... has the gouge in the lax thread.

Had three scrimmages at NMCMS today. Navy "beat" Denver, 7-6; Denver and High Point "tied" 8-8; and High Point "beat" Navy, 11-4.

It was cold.

And begin.

USA Lacrosse Names Navy Trio to Preseason Men's Lacrosse All-America Team
1/18/2024 | Men's Lacrosse
Navy senior co-captains Jackson Bonitz (D / Shrewsbury, Pa.) and Jackson Peters (SSDM / Darien, Conn.), along with senior Max Hewitt (M / Denver, Colo.) have been named to the 2024 USA Lacrosse Preseason All-America teams it was announced by USA Lacrosse Magazine on Wednesday. The publication identified 95 players overall as Preseason All-Americans that were split into first (15 players), second (14) and third-team (14) squads, as well as honorable mentions (52). Bonitz was named to the second team, while Peters and Hewitt were both named honorable men

What will it take to get us back to the NCAA's? It's been too long a drought. What say you Goalie Lax?

Transfer portals, deferred service, Elite Athlete programs…and now, another option I would never have been considered for…Beauty Queen.

I would enjoy, however, headlines like, “Miss America bombs enemy missile sites”

Looks like Coach Saban is retiring. I coached with him as an intern with Houston Oilers back in the day. He is the greatest and on to the next chapter in his life.

Boise State RBs are hosses.

Official press release.

Onto 2024!