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Army-Navy game season has officially kicked off<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">,<\/span>\u00a0in the form of a fake City of Annapolis news\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">press <\/span>release announcing the Maryland capital&#8217;s first annual &#8220;Go Army Beat Navy&#8221; day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The faux\u00a0announcement went up on the news <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">press <\/span>release site PR Newswire on Nov. 4\u00a0and by midday<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">,<\/span>\u00a0had been picked up by Yahoo! 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