Not surprisingly, Navy head coach Ed DeChellis said improved defense will be the key to reversing that result when the archrivals meet again today in West Point.

"We did not do a good job of defending Army the first time," DeChellis said. "We knew exactly what they wanted to do on offense and how to best de...

Factor in that fifth-year head coach Cindy Timchal landed her finest recruiting class to date and it's understandable why Navy was the unanimous choice to three-peat as Patriot League champs.

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Sowell was an assistant at Georgetown from 1990-98, helping head coach Dave Urick take the program from the bottom of the Division I ranks to the ranks of the elite. The upstate New York native got his first head coaching job at Dartmouth and led that program from last place in the Ivy League to first.

Sowell then oversa...

The Smithson brothers come from a rough section of northeast Baltimore and Antoine wanted a safer environment for Anthony, who was 15 years old at the time.

"I just wanted to get him away from Baltimore. It's a tough place to grow up and he was at the age when he cou...

After all, Navy was playing at home against a Holy Cross club that has also been struggling. The Crusaders came in having lost five of their last six games and were just 1-11 on the road.

However, the only trend that seems to matter during this difficult season is that Navy somehow finds a way to lose, whether at home or...

The Capital learned Wednesday that Avila has resigned from the Naval Academy and will depart Annapolis today to return to Texas. The sophomore forward was suspended from the basketball team last week due to a violation of acad...

The Mids (13-10, 6-3 Patriot League) had posted a 1-20 record against the Crusaders (13-11, 4-5) in the Hart Center up through the 2008 season. However, Navy has now defeated Holy Cross on each of its last four trips to Worcester. That ties ...

The Big East has acquired all the pieces needed to build a new coast-to-coast conference. Putting them all together, though, is going to take a while.

The conference wanted to rebuild itself into a 12-team football league that can hold a championship game, and Memphis officially became that 12th member yesterday when it accepted an invite it has long coveted.

But the new Big East isn'...

Head coach Donald Davis thinks C.J. Williams is every bit as good as those two and cannot understand why no BCS schools offered him a scholarship. Navy did pull the trigger on Wi...

First-year head coach Ed DeChellis said that provided visual evidence the Midshipmen remain upbeat and positive despite being mired in a monumental losing streak.

"Other teams I've been a part of, when the season isn't going real well guys tend to wander out to the court about five min...

The Mids, who haven't won a game since November, made just 4 of 16 second-half shots and Lafayette eased to a 62-41 decision over the Midshipmen yesterday afternoon at the Kirby Sports Center.

The loss dropped Navy to 3-19 overall and 0-8 in the Patriot League. Lafayette improved to 10-13 overall and 5-3 in the league s...

The Mids (12-10, 5-3 Patriot League) used two small runs in the early part of the first half to separate themselves from the Leopards (8-15, 2-6).

Lafayette whittled the margin down to 10 points on a pair of occasions (26-16, 28-18), but Navy expanded the ma...