INQUIRER.net: US Government shutdown puts service academy sports on hold

INQUIRER.net Philippine News for Filipinos

Manage your social media Best social media tool for image publishing to Facebook and Twitter. Look amazing and delight your followers. Get 40% off when you sign up today. From our sponsors

US Government shutdown puts service academy sports on hold Oct 2nd 2013, 01:36 WASHINGTON  — Army, Navy and Air Force might be forced to skip their 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. Steve Warren, said the decision was being reviewed by lawyers considering a series of legal questions, including whether money that comes from sources other than Congress could be used to pay for sports during the government shutdown. Meantime, the suspension put a pair of college football games in jeopardy: Army at Boston College, and Air Force at Navy. Dur... Keep on reading: US Government shutdown puts service academy sports on hold Media files: us-government-football.jpg (image/jpeg)

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions