Govt. shutdown puts service academy sports on hold

... football games next weekend because of the partial government shutdown. The Defense Department temporarily suspended sports competition at the service academies Tuesday as a result of the budget impasse in Congress. A Pentagon spokesman, Army Col. ...

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