Update: the feature is up. I’ll be adding new content each day. You can find it at http://www.stripes.com/armynavy

This Saturday is the 108th Army-Navy Game, which means I’ll be really busy this week.

I apologize if the updates are slow, but I’m already skipping my weekend (Tuesday and Wednesday) to get this feature done. I will still post delicious links from time to time and respond to your comments, but I’m not sure if I’ll have any big, full-featured posts. Although, who knows, maybe I’ll need a break or two.

The Army-Navy Game is a big deal for a paper like Stars and Stripes. We have a circulation of just over 100,000, and most of our online readers do not read the print edition (which expands our reach). It’s one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports, and it is one our readers take very seriously.

We can’t let our readers down, and we should own this story.

I’ll be designing and coding the special feature, which should be launching tomorrow. I’ll also be writing stories (two down so far) about the game, the players and at least one story after I attend the game. Tomorrow will be a big day for audio for this project, and I hope to get some clips up ASAP.

I am also compiling stats, and we plan on doing multiple photo galleries. If you have any suggestions for what you as a fan would like to see, don’t hesitate to tell me. This feature is for the fans, not the journalists.

I’m also decided to accept comments, audio files and videos from fans about the big game. Anyone who is a fan of one of the two academies or affiliated with with the U.S. military is encouraged to e-mail armynavygame@gmail.com and sound off. Files must be under 20 megabytes.

It’s a lot of work but a ton of fun.

P.S. I’ll be doing some a lot micro blogging about the project over at Twitter: http://twitter.com/jiconoclast. And I might do some short posts about how it is going, what problems I have encountered (I love you Internet Explorer 6!) and what has been going well.