Navy Football

Navy football Five home games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, a trip to Dublin to face Notre Dame, road games at Penn State and Air Force, and a game against rival Army in Philadelphia highlight Navy's 2012 football schedule, released Saturday. CBS Sports Network will televise all five games in Annapolis, while CBS Sports will televise the Notre Dame and Army games. The Mids will begin the season Sept. 1 in Dublin against the Fighting Irish. The game will be played at Aviva Stadium, located in the heart of the capital, and will mark the first time the stadium has hosted an American football game.

Et cetera Blast's Neto named MISL Player of Week The Major Indoor Soccer League announced Tuesday that Blast forward Adauto Neto has been named Player of the Week. Neto scored five goals and added two assists as the Eastern Division-leading Blast earned a pair of victories last week. It is the second time this season that Neto has won captured the weekly honor. Navy football: Senior offensive tackle Ryan Basford , senior center Brady DeMell and junior outside linebacker-safety Tra'ves Bush were named All-East by the Eastern College Athletic Conference.

Duty, service and honor are big words. They are also ones that are often abused these days by Washington politicians who thank each other for their "service" even as they sink deeper into partisan gridlock. "Game of Honor," a documentary about West Point and Annapolis and the Army-Navy football game played Dec. 10 in Landover, reminds viewers of the higher meanings of those words. The two-hour film premieres at 10 p.m. Wednesday on Showtime. Producers Pete Radovich and Steve Karasik say they didn't set out with any such lofty goal in mind for their Showtime-CBS Sports co-production, which was shot during the past eight months in the barracks and on the playing fields at the U.S. military and naval academies.

With some new revelation breaking almost daily in the tawdry scandals that have soiled the great sports programs at Penn State and Syracuse, it might be easy to overlook this uplifting little piece of college football news. Senior fullback Alexander Teich will not be selected in the first round of the next NFL draft and he will not become an instant millionaire for trying to carry a ball past a chalk line, but he did get the offer he was looking for upon graduation from the Naval Academy.

As expected, Navy fullback Alexander Teich returned to the team Monday after being suspended for last week's game against Southern Mississippi.    Teich, a senior co-captain who had led the Midshipmen in rushing through the first four games, had been suspended by Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo for "leadership issues" in the aftermath of the team's 35-34 overtime loss to Air Force Oct. 1. Without Teich, the Midshipmen were blown out by the Golden...

Even before his senior year of high school began, Mason Graham knew that he wanted to play football at Navy. But Jabaree Tuani, Graham's teammate at Brentwood Academy outside Nashville, Tenn., wasn't sold on making the same military commitment. As much as Navy assistant coach Ashley Ingram was recruiting Tuani, Graham was too. "Jabari and myself had always talked about playing somewhere together," recalled Graham, now a senior at Navy. "I was interested in the Naval Academy and he was kind of lukewarm to the idea.

John Feinstein has left the Navy football radio booth after 14 years as an analyst, he announced on his blog Wednesday. Feinstein wrote that he had long been trying to get made an Army-Navy football documentary based on his book "A Civil War," pitching the project to CBS Sports, among others. Then he learned last week that CBS would indeed be making a two-hour documentary on the game, to be shown in full on Showtime and in a shorter form on CBS. But they'll be doing it without Feinstein.

College basketball UMBC surprises Maine, 84-79, behind De La Rosa and Fry Chris De La Rosa scored 24 points and had a career-high 13 assists to lead visiting UMBC to an upset of Maine, 84-79, on Sunday. Justin Fry added a career-high 20 points for the Retrievers (5-19, 4-7 America East Conference), who trailed 49-35 just 55 seconds into the second half. UMBC then outscored the Black Bears (14-9, 8-3) by 18-2 over the next 5:50 for its first lead of the game, 53-51.

Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo inherited a potentially thankless assignment when he was hired to replace Paul Johnson, the architect of a dramatic change in fortune for a football program that had languished for decades before his appointment. Niumatalolo not only picked up where Johnson left off, but he has taken the program even further, defeating Notre Dame twice in his first three years as coach and winning the Commander in Chief's Trophy in two of those three seasons. What Niumatalolo does not do is promote himself.

A Baltimore judge has postponed the trial of two former state high school wrestling champions from Anne Arundel County who were charged last June with assaulting a pair of Navy football players at an 18-and-over city club. At a hearing Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court, the attorney for James Patrick Downey III of Linthicum Heights, said his client wasn't ready to go to trial. The prosecutor, meanwhile, asked to have Downey — who also faces two other assault charges — and Louis Patrick Carey tried together.