Today in Sports History – First Use of Instant Replay

The instant replay, which changed the way viewers watched sports, was used for the first time by the CBS director Tony Verna. It caught Army quarterback Rollie Stichweh faking a handoff and running for a touchdown in the Army-Navy game. So strange did the replay seem that the announcer Lindsay Nelson said: “This is not live! Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again!

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West Point cadet quits over religion

Military development. Academics. Athletics. Three pillars of Army values that cadets at America’s most prestious military academy live by.

But West Point cadet Blake Page says there is one other unspoken pillar at the United States Military Academy: religion.

That’s why, with just five months left before graduation, Page quit.

And he did it in a most public fashion – in a fiery blog post.

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