Are you ready for some (mediocre) football? The EagleBank Bowl will be sticking in the District for another four years, after the NCAA Football Issues Committee issued it a new license. This year's bowl is scheduled for December 29, 2010 at scenic RFK Stadium and will be televised live by ESPN at 2:30 p.m. ET. more ›

I don't hold any grudges against the United States Military Academy's football team. But as a pigskin fan living in our nation's capital, I'm rooting quite hard for Navy to defeat the Black Knights this afternoon in the annual marquee service academy football game. Why? Well, the match-ups for college football's corporate-sponsored exhibition cavalcade were mostly finalized late last weekend; with an Army win today, the 2009 EagleBank Bowl at RFK Stadium will feature Army taking on Temple. more ›

City Paper's Dave McKenna reminds us that college football's bowl season will return to the District with a reprise of last year's EagleBank Bowl, despite the main sponsor's TARPtastic financial position. Tickets for the December 29th game (moved back from last season's pre-Christmas date) at RFK Stadium went on sale yesterday. The bowl, which would pit Army (under the very generous assumption that they will be bowl eligible), and the eighth-place team from the ACC -- obviously, organizers would kill to draw Maryland, for obvious reasons -- got mostly positive reviews from fans and teams last season, when Wake Forest defeated Navy, 29-19. But in-person attendance did not meet expectations. In light of that, it strikes us as odd that just like last year, tickets are somewhat ridiculously expensive -- the lowest priced seat is $30 -- for a game possibly featuring a service academy which hasn't been to a bowl since 1996 and a team that will likely be 6-6 and in the bottom half of the ACC. more ›