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Army-Navy game on the move

© Chuck Bednar

The Naval Academy announced Friday that their annual game against Army will be played in Baltimore's PSINet Stadium next season.

The game in 2000, which will be held on Dec. 2, will mark the third time the classic Army-Navy game has been played in Baltimore, but the first since 1944.

For all but four of the last 54 years, the game has been in Philadelphia -- midway between the Naval Academy in Annapolis and their Army counterparts in West Point, N.Y. Philadelphia hosted the first game 1899 and has done so 74 times in total. Veterans Stadium was the host for last year's game, but safety issues about the venue were raised when the railing gave way and injured nine fans. Army and Navy have also met on the field at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., and Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

This year's game will be the 100th meeting of the two service acadamies.

Irish to meet with NCAA -- Also on Friday, the NCAA Committee on Infractions was scheduled to meet with Notre Dame officials to hear their rebuttal to allegations that a booster provided up to a dozen football players with thousands of dollars in gifts and trips acquired with embezzled funds. The meeting was the first step in determining whether or not the NCAA places the Fighting Irish football program on probation for the first time in its 112-year football history.

As reported earlier by Suite 101, former Irish booster Kimberly Dunbar allegedly took Notre Dame football players Jarvis Edison, who fathered a child with Dunbar, and Allen Rossum, as well as Rossum's girlfriend, to Las Vegas in 1997. The trip reportedly cost more than $10,000 and included tickets to the Holyfield-Tyson (at $500 per ticket), reservations at a top-notch hotel, and first class airfare.

Dunbar's personal diary also reveals that the former Notre Dame booster purchased several other trips with the embezzled money, including excusions for two Notre Dame football players with whom she had no close personal relationships. According to her entry on Feb. 3, 1995, Dunbar paid for then-boyfriend and Notre Dame star Derrick Mayes to accompany her to Chicago, where they stayed at the Chicago Hilton and visited the Second City Comedy Club. Allegedly, former Irish star Randy Kinder and his girlfriend accompanied Dunbar and Mayes. Dunbar is said to have picked up their expenses as well - despite not having a close relationship with the couple.

The committee is expected to take six to eight weeks to decide on a punishment.

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