26 days ago- Jeff Deliz expected to be preparing for graduation from the Naval Academy and a career as a fighter pilot beginning next month, but one play early last season changed his future.
49 days ago- Don’t expect to see Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo driving around practice in a golf cart. Other than that, Navy’s spring practices will look much as they have the previous six seasons under former coach Paul Johnson.
145 days ago- Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo still remembers chatting with Utah coach Kyle Whittingham before games as coordinators on opposing teams in the Mountain West Conference more than six years ago. But tonight at 9 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, they will meet under completely different circumstances — as head coaches in the Poinsettia Bowl in front of a national television audience on ESPN.
146 days ago- Most players dread going to practice. But Navy senior fullback Adam Ballard couldn’t be happier preparing to play Utah in the Poinsettia Bowl on Thursday night at Qualcomm Stadium.
151 days ago- Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo acted swiftly this week to return a sense of continuity to the football program in the days after Paul Johnson resigned to take over as head coach at Georgia Tech.
152 days ago- Navy’s offensive line knew what to expect from Ken Niumatalolo as soon as he was promoted to head coach on Saturday, fewer than 24 hours after Paul Johnson was hired by Georgia Tech.
161 days ago- Navy slotback Reggie Campbell isn’t scheduled to attend flight school in Pensacola, Fla. for another few months. But in the Midshipmen’s 38-3 win over Army on Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium, most of the 71,610 fans in attendance would swear Campbell was already traveling at semisonic speed. In the second quarter, Campbell dashed into the school record books when he ran untouched during a 98-yard kickoff return, the longest by any Midshipman in the team’s 128-year history.