BALTIMORE — In sports, it is becoming a good year for ending bad streaks. On Saturday, a little more than a month after the Chicago Cubs broke their 108-year championship drought, Army beat Navy in their annual matchup for the first time since December of 2001.
When Army quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw took the final snap of the game to run out the clock on a 21-17 victory, he was quickly swarmed by some of the thousands of jubilant cadets in long gray coats who stormed the field. The mini-curse was over.
In front of a sellout crowd of 71,600 that included President-elect Donald J.