Air Force Falcons

SOUTH BEND - Dee Dowis will be watching Saturday, he hopes, from the beginning. The former Air Force quarterback is coaching his 11-year-old son in a baseball tournament, which he hopes won’t cut into his tuning into his alma mater taking on...

SOUTH BEND - Sometimes it's what happens between Saturdays, not always on them, that feed a college football team's dreams. And yes, at the halfway point of a season that started in an 0-2 tsunami of turnovers, Notre Dame (4-2) can still talk BCS. Not...

Orlando Sentinel college insider Matt Murschel has ranked all 125 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the country. The Sentinel staff will take a closer look at a new team daily, counting backward from No. 125 to our projected No. 1 team. Today at No....

The Orlando Sentinel has ranked all 125 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the country. The Sentinel staff will take a closer look at a new team daily, counting backward from No. 125 to our projected No. 1 team. Today at No. 117: Army Coach: Rich...

A move to the midfield paid big dividends for Mount St. Mary's senior Andrew Scalley (Archbishop Spalding), who was named the Northeast Conference men's lacrosse Player of the Week for the fifth time this season. Scalley factored in on six of the Mount'...

Sam Snow scored the game-winner with 56 seconds left in overtime as the visiting Fairfield men's lacrosse team upset top-ranked Denver, 10-9, Saturday in front of an announced 2,520 at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium. The Stags (8-5, 4-2 Eastern College...

Here are five games in the Mountain West Conference to watch in 2013: Utah State at San Jose State Friday, Sept. 27 The Buzz: These two programs are quite familiar with each other as both were members of the Western Athletic Conference before...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Cycling--Paris-Roubaix, 7 a.m. (NBCSN) NHL Hockey--St. Louis Blues at Detroit Red Wings, 11:30 a.m. (NBC); Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets, 5 p.m. (FXSP); New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...

Brawley native Donald Wharton Jr. watched from the sidelines of the Armed Forces Bowl as Rice University’s freshman quarterback Driphus Jackson threw for 264 yards including two touchdowns as the Owls beat Wharton’s Air Force Academy Falcons,...

A little more than a month into the season, Navy had lost to all three Football Bowl Subdivision opponents it had played, and the closest result in any of those beatings was 12-0 at home to San Jose State. Then came a road game against Air Force,...

The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl on Saturday morning in Fort Worth, Texas, pits the Rice Owls against the Air Force Falcons and Brawley Union High graduate and Valley native Donald Wharton will be wearing No. 39 for the Falcons. Wharton...