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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - In its 100-plus years of playing varsity football, the Naval Academy has competed in more than 1,000 games. Until Saturday, however, it had never scored 64 points against a Division I-A opponent.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - According to a Naval Academy tradition, midshipmen watching Navy football games from the stands must perform pushups-as many as their team has points-every time the Mids score. During Saturday's game against Duke, midshipmen at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium had to do 347 pushups-a decent workout, even for one enlisted in the military.
Since World War II, the U.S. Navy has earned worldwide respect as a power at sea, on land and in the sky. This year's Navy football team may not fare well in water, but thanks to quarterbacks Chris McCoy and Ben Fay, its ground and air attacks overwhelm opponents regularly.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - During the first six games of the 1996 season, the men's soccer team established itself firmly as the No. 1 team in the nation. Sunday afternoon at Ludwig Soccer Field, the Maryland Terrapins needed less than eight minutes to knock Duke off its pedestal.
If folks in the champagne-producing region of France notice a sales increase in the coming months, they can send their thank-you notes, par avion, to Pasadena, Calif. Letters should be addressed to Rose Bowl officials and representatives of the Big 10 and Pacific-10 conferences, who may pop open a bit more bubbly than usual this fall.
If I've learned anything about Americans in my years of watching sports, it's that we love an underdog. Perhaps we identify with the underdog-most people have been bullied at some point, and few possess the natural skills of a star athlete-but whatever the reason, from Joe Namath's Jets to the 1980 USA Hockey team, Americans consistently root for David to slay Goliath.
If the first eight months are any indication, 1996 might not be a memorable year for the Clemson football team.
Move over, Stephon Marbury. It's time to make way for Jenny Chuasiriporn.
Charlie Parker was living a dream. After serving as a men's basketball assistant coach for six years at the University of Southern California, he had earned the school's head coaching job. During the 1995-96 season, his second season as head coach, his players were showing significant progress on the court-the Trojans had beaten three ranked opponents and, only halfway through league play, had doubled their conference win total from the previous year-and were performing well in school. They were well on their way to accomplishing all of the goals they had set at the beginning of the year.
The 10th-ranked men's tennis team extended its winning streak to nine this weekend, as it smashed conference rivals Virginia and Maryland in Charlottesville, Va.
One national semifinal features two seemingly invincible titans, ranked No. 1 and No. 2, in a game many observers feel will determine the national champion. In the other, somewhat overlooked, semifinal, two surprising squads do battle. One boasts outstanding athleticism and a tremendous hot streak; its opponent, led by a much-maligned coach and fighting past tournament failures, has shocked critics who doubted it would reach the Final Four.
The men's track team opened its outdoor season with outstanding performances in four events at the Florida State Relays. Duke took only seven athletes to Tallahassee, but with their showings in the decathlon, 400-meter hurdles, distance medley relay and 4x1,500-meter relay, the Blue Devils established themselves as a force in the upcoming outdoor season.
Senior Scott Frinzi represented Duke at the NCAA Wrestling Championships, recording one victory before being eliminated from the second round of the consolation bracket.
The men's tennis team's 6-1 triumph Wednesday at Wake Forest supported the cliche, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Senior Scott Frinzi highlighted the wrestling team's matches at the Atlantic Coast Conference championships in Chapel Hill by winning the ACC title at the 150-lb. weight class. Frinzi, whose previous best at the conference meet was a fourth-place finish, earned his first NCAA Tournament bid by nabbing the league championship.
When Tom Petty wrote the song "Into the Great Wide Open," he undoubtedly was not looking ahead to the 1996 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. Yet the title of Petty's hit tune accurately describes this year's men's basketball conference tourney, which looms as unpredictable as any previous ACC Tournament.
This year in the Atlantic Coast Conference, just like every year in every league, the men's basketball coaches are touting the conference tournament as the best ever. They would have us forget last season's ACC Tournament, which featured two overtime thrillers and a record-setting 107 points in three games from Wake Forest's Randolph Childress.
The fifth-ranked women's tennis team started its Atlantic Coast Conference schedule by producing the only result it has known in conference play the last eight years-a victory. The Blue Devils (6-2, 1-0 in the ACC), who have not lost a league dual match since 1987, crushed N.C. State 7-1 in Raleigh to extend their remarkable ACC winning streak to 70.
It may not have been the moon landing, but the women's lacrosse team made history Saturday when it participated in its first tournament at the varsity level.
If the regular season is any indication, the 1996 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament will be completely up for grabs.
