Two soldiers and an airman will run the length of 30 football fields on Friday, jumping 28 barriers and seven water pools in a race to qualify for the final spots on Team USA and go to Paris next month to compete in the Olympic games.

Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants in the 1950s and ’60s whose powerful bat, superb athletic grace and crafty baseball acumen earned him a place with Babe Ruth atop the game’s roster of historic greats, died June 18. He was 93.

Jerry West, the legendary Lakers player and later coach and general manager who took the team to stunning heights season after season but could never quite satisfy his own impossibly high standards, has died.

This first round of the NFL draft, which begins Thursday, will start with a quarterbacking bang, but offensive line and wide receiver are also areas of strength.

With a flattop haircut, pointed opinions and a Midwestern sensibility, Whitey Herzog, an Army veteran, forged a Hall of Fame career managing Major League Baseball’s two Missouri teams by implementing a style that bears little resemblance to today’s game.

By far the biggest story line of Navy football spring camp has been the installation of a new offensive by first-year offensive coordinator Drew Cronic.

Army Sgts. Sagen Maddalena and Ivan Roe have doubled their chances at scoring an Olympic medal this summer in Paris.

Staff Sgts. Rachel Tozier and Will Hinton of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit qualified for the Games in trap shooting during USA Shooting’s Shotgun Olympic Trials.

The expansion of the College Football Playoff to 12 teams has put the stand-alone status of Army-Navy in jeopardy again.

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is teaming with USAA and the Marine Corps Association to send Marine veteran John Jones, a former staff sergeant from Colorado, to next weekend’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas.