Even as college football continues to explode with change — both for good and bad, but mostly bad — Army-Navy is always Army-Navy.

The traditional Army Navy Game Ball Run began Tuesday on the Annapolis, Md., campus of the United States Naval Academy, and it will end Saturday morning at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., site of the 124th annual football classic.

A disappointing season took a significant turn for the worse Saturday as Navy football lost to a struggling Temple team it was favored to beat.

Navy veteran Jay McManus leaves Sunday as the winner of the Marine Corps Marathon push-rim race. Julius Kogo, 38, won the men’s race, and Bonnie Keating, 38, won the women’s race.

Jay McManus, 48, served in the Navy for nearly 22 years before medically retiring. He will be among the more than 23,000 running Sunday in the Marine Corps Marathon. More than 6,200 service members, veterans and foreign troops are scheduled to participate.

Adolis García homered twice and drove in five runs as the Texas Rangers reached their first World Series in 12 years with an 11-4 blowout of the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series on Monday night.

LSU revealed Wednesday it had painted the end zones at Tiger Stadium ahead of Saturday’s game with Army in a way to honor its opponent.

Scores of military veterans, service academy graduates and families are scrambling to find hotel rooms for the big Army-Navy game at Gillette Stadium because their reservations were canceled to make way for migrant families.

The rookie camp trip gave players a chance to bond in a lower-pressure environment before they get on the ice with NHL players.

Hayden Reed and Jakobi Buchanan had first-quarter touchdown runs and Army never trailed in a 37-29 victory over UTSA on Friday night.

After months of hope and hype, Aaron Rodgers’ first series with the Jets ended up being his final series of the season. An MRI confirmed what the Jets feared on Monday night: Rodgers has a complete tear of his left Achilles tendon.

The Falcons’ uniform honors the 80 pilots and crewmen of the Doolittle Raid, the flight of 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet against targets in Japan on April 18, 1942.

Sustained success has become somewhat regular during the Troy Calhoun era in Colorado Springs. But Air Force is facing “significant rebuilding” heading into 2023 and keeping it going will require the services of many new faces.

Among the priorities for Army football and 10th-year head coach Jeff Monken are a new offensive scheme, a greater emphasis on run defense and sustained special teams success.

Navy’s offense this season is going to be slightly different from the triple option scheme that has been such an integral part of service academy football.

As part of the USAA Salute to Service Boot Camp, 50 of the 100 service members trained like Panthers, participating in drills most commonly seen at the NFL Combine, such as the 40-yard dash, long jump and three-cone shuttle.

The Americans did advance to the knockout stage by finishing second in Group E, but they do not seem long for this tournament. Despite their No. 1 ranking and record number of championship trophies, they will enter Sunday’s round of 16 against Sweden as underdogs.

Jacob Busic and Jayden Umbarger joined fellow seniors Will Harbour and Lirion Murtezi on Saturday as captains of the 2023 Navy football team.

The rise, fall and enduring legacy of the Negro Leagues, none of which would have been possible without the entrepreneurial Rube Foster, is the focus of a new documentary titled “The League” by acclaimed director Sam Pollard.