Monthly Archives: August 2009

What’s Really Curious About Joe Montana’s Comments

Here’s a curious thing: If it can be argued (and I assure you, it can, because it is all the time) that Charlie Weis doesn’t really understand the game of college football because he’s really only had success and great … Continue reading

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2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground, Rounds 11 and 12

Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and … Continue reading

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ND vs. BC @ Soldier Field in Visual Metaphors

This has sort of blown up. The Eagles’ current series against Notre Dame runs out next year, but the two schools are in talks for a three-game series starting in 2016. The series would include a neutral-site game, with Chicago’s … Continue reading

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NYT Quad Blog Picks ND at #21

We’ve been reading pretty much every post of the NYT Quad Countdown, and, frankly were continually surprised that ND wasn’t the next team somewhere around the time the Quad Blog got in the 50s. Finally, ND checks in at #21. … Continue reading

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2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground, Rounds 9 and 10

Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and … Continue reading

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2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 5th Round Pick

Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and … Continue reading

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Former UM(s!) QB Was Booted For Breaking “Team Rules” That Most Of Us Call “Laws”

We twittered or twerped this last night, but now that we’ve actually

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2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 4th Round Pick

Round: 4 Pick: 16 Player: Joe McKnight School: USC Position: RB Just about now, in the draft, I start to panic, and I remind myself that I probably couldn’t run the Detroit Lions any better than those who do run … Continue reading

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HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-08-07

@greide Is it true that McMackin was already going to take a 10% pay cut, and then they just “punished” him with this 7% thing? in reply to greide # @greide We’re pretty much over the “McMackin said something bad” … Continue reading

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Friday Roundup: The “Overactive Salivary Glands” Edition

With much of the college football world opening up fall camps in these dog days of summer, and the CFB covering media (new and old) full to bursting with interest stories, fabricated controversies, and occasionally even some actual news, you … Continue reading

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