DirecTV Holiday Bowl President Dennis DuBard toured the USS Abraham Lincoln on Sunday afternoon with players and coaches from the Louisville and USC football teams. In 2002, DuBard was commanding officer of the USS Peleliu, a Marine helicopter carrier then stationed in San Diego.

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.