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NBC Sports
5 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Navy worth a 'sprinkle' to win American Conference
Trysta Krick and Vaughn Dalzell look at the futures market for Navy football, discussing why the Midshipmen are worth a "sprinkle" at +380 to win the American Conference this season.
Fox Sports
11-08-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
2025 Navy Football Predictions: Midshipmen Ranked 63rd in RJ Young's Ultimate 136
College Football 2025 Navy Football Predictions: Midshipmen Ranked 63rd in RJ Young's Ultimate 136 Updated Aug. 10, 2025 9:26 p.m. ET share facebook x reddit link This isn't your average college football ranking. My Ultimate 136 is a set of rankings that is fluid, but it's my job to look ahead and make a claim for all FBS teams based on what I know and why I know it. Here are the three pressing questions I started by asking when putting together this list: Who do I think is good? Why do I think they're good? What are the chances they will finish above or below my expectations? Here is a look at where Navy lands in my Ultimate 136. Navy ranking: 63 Last year's ranking: 108 Top player: QB Blake Norvath: Had 1,246 rushing yards last season, the third-most of any FBS QB last season; had 17 rush TDs, tied for the fifth-most of all FBS QBs; the third QB in school history to rush and pass for more than 1,200 yards in the same season. [Navy's 2025 schedule] RJ's take: Midshipmen coach Brian Newberry has QB Blake Horvath back, and that could mean bad news once again for the American Conference. Navy, when it has a star QB — from Malcolm Perry to Keenan Reynolds — can win 10 games like it did last year and stamp an upset like it did against Oklahoma in the Armed Forces Bowl. ADVERTISEMENT The question for Navy to answer is simple: Was last year a fluke or a sign of dominance to come from an academy in the age of revenue-sharing, NIL-moneymaking and rampant transfer portal movement? Let's find out if every bone in the Midshipmen program is a spar, and when it spits, it spits tar. [Check out RJ Young's Ultimate 136 College Football Rankings here] Navy Win Total Odds: Over 8.5 (-134) Under 8.5 (+110) Have an issue with my rankings? Think your alma mater is too low, or your school's rival is too high? Get at me on X, @RJ_Young , and I'll select my favorite tweets and respond to them in a future article. RJ Young is a national college football writer and analyst for FOX Sports. Follow him at @RJ_Young. FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience College Football Navy Midshipmen share
Washington Post
24-06-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Navy's new athletic director has Annapolis roots and global ambition
Growing up with a parent who graduated from the Naval Academy, Michael Kelly attended countless football games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium during his youth. As of Monday, Kelly became responsible for overseeing the Midshipmen football program as well as every other sport as Navy's new athletic director. The graduate of St. John's College High in Washington introduced himself to his new co-workers on his second day on the job during an informal gathering Tuesday at packed Akerson Theater, where the football team typically watches game film. Sitting in the front row were his parents, including his father, Dennis, a member of Navy's class of 1967. 'To come back to the DMV, it means a lot to me. Growing up in the area, playing basketball at St. John's for coach [Joe] Gallagher and being part of the whole scene here,' Kelly said. 'Back then, going to games when David Robinson was playing [basketball] here, seeing when Maryland and Georgetown were all great on the basketball side, to me it's all that. It's nostalgic to be home.' Kelly replaces Chet Gladchuk, who announced March 31 he would be retiring after a 24-year tenure highlighted by a dramatic resurgence in football prosperity. Among Gladchuk's most consequential final duties was taking a lead role in the national search for his replacement. Also figuring prominently in the search was Chad Chatlos, a 1993 Navy graduate who serves as managing director for TurnkeyZRG, the executive recruiting firm the academy retained for the process, which lasted close to 10 weeks and comprised 23 candidates, according to Gladchuk. 'In the final analysis, it was across the board — the farther we got, the closer we got to a decision, it became clearer and clearer and clearer that there was one gentleman that just absolutely stood out amongst all,' Gladchuk said of Kelly. 'We looked at his background, and it was extraordinary. He's done everything.' Kelly most recently was the athletic director at South Florida, where among his most notable accomplishments over seven years was almost doubling the department's budget to $100 million. The Bulls expanded to 21 varsity sports under his watch and claimed 21 team championships in the American Athletic Conference, where Navy is a current member in football. Kelly's previous jobs included serving as the chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff, managing site selection for the national championship game and the national semifinals, and as senior associate commissioner for the ACC from 2007 through 2013, playing a prominent role in negotiating the ACC's television rights contract in 2010. 'I think the job at the ACC and then also my job at the CFP kind of helps me — not only helps us navigate major business deals as it relates to where we might move Army-Navy, where we put Navy-Notre Dame, things of that nature,' Kelly said, 'because that's kind of what I was involved in and then certainly the whole television aspect of it. How can we maximize the value of the tradition and the excellence of Navy football and really all Navy sports?' The Midshipmen are coming off a 10-3 record in football capped by a dramatic victory in the Armed Forces Bowl over Oklahoma. The Midshipmen earned double-digit wins for the sixth time in program history in the second season under Coach Brian Newberry, who sat in the second row during Kelly's introductory address inside the football facility Tuesday. 'For me it's been all about meeting as many people as I possibly can here internally and certainly talking to donors and sponsors and others, too,' Kelly said. 'So that's really what I'm focused on this week, is to just introduce myself, tell them how excited I am to be here and being able to be ready, spending this whole month mainly focused on that so we can hit the ground running when the true summer camps start and getting ready for what I expect will be a very successful fall for Navy football and for all of our fall sports.'
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Naval Academy tosses 400 books from library following Trump DEI expulsion orders
The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is ditching almost 400 books from its library, in accordance with directives from the Trump administration to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). "We can confirm the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from their Nimitz Library collection in order to ensure compliance with all directives outlined in Executive Orders issued by the President," a Navy spokesperson told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Nimitz Library houses roughly 590,000 print books, 322 databases, and over 5,000 print journals and magazines to support the academic inquiries and intellectual development of Midshipmen." A list of the books tossed was not available and no other details were immediately provided. President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders instructing federal agencies to remove DEI content, including an order in January that barred kindergarten through 12th grade institutions that receive federal funding from including DEI material in their curriculum. But the U.S. military service academies had previously remained exempt because they are not a kindergarten through 12th grade institution. Naval Academy Closing Dei Offices To Align With Trump Executive Orders: Memo The Naval Academy's purge stemmed from an order from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's office, according to the Associated Press – although it's unclear if Hegseth issued the directive himself or if it came from a staffer. Read On The Fox News App The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital about whether Hegseth's office directed the order, and if it had instructed the other service academies to purge DEI books from its libraries. Instead, the Pentagon directed Fox News Digital to the U.S. Naval Academy and shared a statement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell: "All service academies are fully committed to executing and implementing President Trump's Executive Orders." Us Naval Academy Ends Affirmative Action In Admissions: 'Implementing All Directives' Hegseth has remained vigilant about weeding out DEI programs from the Department of Defense. In January, he announced that the Pentagon would follow all orders from Trump to scrap DEI efforts from the military. "The President's guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No more DEI at Dept. of Defense," Hegseth wrote in an X post. "The Pentagon will comply, immediately. No exceptions, name-changes, or delays." The Pentagon's effort to eliminate DEI from its social media and websites initially prompted the removal of a swath of DOD web pages, including references to the Enola Gay aircraft responsible for dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. However, the Pentagon moved to restore some of these web pages – including ones that referenced Black veterans such as U.S. Army veteran and baseball player Jackie Robinson and the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military aviators in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Meanwhile, the Naval Academy's library scrub comes days after documents from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were made public Friday disclosing that the service academy will not take into account race, ethnicity or sex in admissions to the institution, in response to an executive order Trump issued in January. The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that considering race in the higher education admissions process was unconstitutional, however, it provided a caveat for U.S. military academies. Previous legal filings from the Naval Academy said that while race rarely served as a factor in the admissions process, it occasionally did in a "limited fashion." The U.S. Naval Academy is one of several elite service military academies, and trains undergraduate midshipmen for careers as officers in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The Associated Press and Fox News' Alexandra Koch contributed to this article source: Naval Academy tosses 400 books from library following Trump DEI expulsion orders
Fox News
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Naval Academy tosses 400 books from library following Trump DEI expulsion orders
The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is pitching almost 400 books from its library, in accordance with directives from the Trump administration to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). "We can confirm the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from their Nimitz Library collection in order to ensure compliance with all directives outlined in Executive Orders issued by the President," a Navy spokesperson told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Nimitz Library houses roughly 590,000 print books, 322 databases, and over 5,000 print journals and magazines to support the academic inquiries and intellectual development of Midshipmen." A list of the books tossed was not available and no other details were immediately provided. President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders instructing federal agencies to remove DEI content, including an order in January that barred kindergarten through 12th grade institutions that receive federal funding from including DEI material in their curriculum. But the U.S. military service academies had previously remained exempt because they are not a kindergarten through 12th grade institution. The Naval Academy's purge stemmed from an order from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's office, according to the Associated Press – although it's unclear if Hegseth issued the directive himself or if it came from a staffer. The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital about whether Hegseth's office directed the order, and if it had instructed the other service academies to purge DEI books from its libraries. Instead, the Pentagon directed Fox News Digital to the U.S. Naval Academy and shared a statement from chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell: "All service academies are fully committed to executing and implementing President Trump's Executive Orders." Hegseth has remained vigilant about weeding out DEI programs from the Department of Defense. In January, he announced that the Pentagon would follow all orders from Trump to scrap DEI efforts from the military. "The President's guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No more DEI at Dept. of Defense," Hegseth wrote in an X post. "The Pentagon will comply, immediately. No exceptions, name-changes, or delays." The Pentagon's effort to eliminate DEI from its social media and websites initially prompted the removal of a swath of DOD web pages, including references to the Enola Gay aircraft responsible for dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. However, the Pentagon moved to restore some of these web pages – including ones that referenced Black veterans such as U.S. Army veteran and baseball player Jackie Robinson and the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military aviators in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Meanwhile, the Naval Academy's library scrub comes days after documents from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were made public Friday disclosing that the service academy will not take into account race, ethnicity or sex in admissions to the institution, in response to an executive order Trump issued in January. The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that considering race in the higher education admissions process was unconstitutional, however, it provided a caveat for U.S. military academies. Previous legal filings from the Naval Academy said that while race rarely served as a factor in the admissions process, it occasionally did in a "limited fashion." The U.S. Naval Academy is one of several elite service military academies, and trains undergraduate midshipmen for careers as officers in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
