ND Ranks Top 20 in Football and Academics, but not partying (according to Princeton Review). Helpful for recruiting hard working… #
…young men that know how to create their own good times. #
Hawthorne: “Chief Nursing Officer.” WTF? #
RT @espn4d: If you want some comedy this afternoon, follow @greide as she details the ongoing farce [...]

I suppose you never want the President of the United States to be drunk, and that right there is good enough reason to rationalize a brew pick by Obama of Bud Light. At just 4.2% ABV, it’s only slightly more intoxicating than the Snapple I just chugged with breakfast. Still, I’ve always said [...]

Yesterday, we incorrectly reported that what the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors perform before a game is called “The Haka.” We were wrong. What the Hawaii Warriors perform is a “Ha’a.”

Please accept this correction as an apology to anyone offended by our mistake*.
*Yes. Seriously.

According to Hawaii Football Coach… hold on, I have to look this up… Greg McMackin, the night before the Hawaii Bowl last season, the ND and Hawaii squads took part in a ceremony during which the Hawaii squad did the completely bad-ass Haka, of which you can see a performance by the “All Blacks” [...]

Our announcement of the ND vs. Opposition Draft, coupled with this post over on UHND, reminded me of this post we did a year ago looking at draft talent in ND’s upper classes and this post from this past spring looking at the poor state of draftable players on the 2008 squad (again, keep in [...]

Or maybe I should say Pete’s more of a Bob Ross. He sees happy little trees everywhere, and, more importantly, he sees “happy little mistakes.”

USC football Coach Pete Carroll employed a former NFL tactician last season to help with the team’s punting and kicking game, an arrangement that may have violated NCAA rules that [...]

Mel Kiper Jr. seen here eating his heart out.

Earlier this year, and I mean early, a series of discussions on various ND football boards, plus a lot of writing about how the talent on ND’s roster so “clearly” “outclasses” so much of the talent on the rosters of the opposition of 2009, got myself and [...]

“To me I look at it like this: If you go to Notre Dame to end up the season being ranked in the top 20, I think, as an athlete and a football player, you’re going to the school for the wrong reasons,” said Terrell, whose ‘88 squad beat four top 10 teams, including the [...]