US NCAA Football Bowl Season begins Saturday, December 15th,with no fewer than 6 Bowls. Already, theBCS National Championship has been set, featuring Notre Dame, Clemson, Alabamaand Oklahoma. The first two will playeach other in the Cotton Bowl on the 29th of December, while the latter twosquare off, the same day, in the OrangeBowl. Winners will play in a month'stime in the national championship game, this year scheduled for Santa Clara,California, on Monday, January 7th. Saturday College Football has a single game, the annual matchupbetween the Naval Academy and West Point, Army vs. Navy. This game is chock full of tradition, this isthe 119th meeting between the two teams, so a good watch from at least half anhour before the game, until fans and cadets from both academies sing eachothers' school songs after the game is won by one of them. Navy has been the biggest winner of theyears, and leads the season. Army who had several difficult season, this yearis ranked in the top 25, and will not end its season at the game, insteadlooking ahead to a bowl game. The Army-Navy rivalry has often been known as patriotic — andfor years, one of the most lopsided in sports. Navy hooked an anchor to theCommander-in-Chief's Trophy with a series-best 14-game winning streak from2002-2015. President Trump will become the 10th Commander in Chief to watch thegame. By tradition he will conduct thecoin toss before the game, and at half time will walk across the field, to siton the opposite side during the second half. Today's game will be played at Lincoln Financial Field, homeof the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. If history foretells, President Trump will likely see a close call: thelast three games have been decided by a total of 9 points and only once since2010 has a team won by more than a touchdown. Army will play Houston in the Armed Forces Bowl and was ranked for thefirst time in 22 years. But for the upper classmen who experienced eachmilestone, no thrill has compared to snapping the miserable losing streak toNavy in 2016. When the announcementwas made of the finalists for the 2018 Heisman Trophy, history was made aswell. For the first time in 84 years, the top three vote-getters arequarterbacks of color: Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray, Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa andOhio State’s Dwayne Haskins. The realcompetition appears to be between Kyler Murray, the best player from the stateof Texas for many decades, and Tua Tagovailoa, who has been on fire this year,and has made a name for himself by stellar play. Murray is also a top baseball player, and hadalready signed a multi-million dollar pro contract with the Oakland As who gamehim leave to play a final season of College Football. What a season it has been! The winner of the award will be announced thisafternoon in New York City. The greatest Cricket in the world is being played today inAdelaide. India continues their tour ofAustralia, meeting the hosts in the first test at the Oval. Today is day three in the match, which iscurrently being led by India, and the match is in the second innings. MitchellStarc is currently bowling, along with Nathan Lyon. K.L. Rahul and Murali Vijay are batting forIndia and are currently not out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
