Just a few guys loving the same woman and talking Notre Dame Football.
As Mardi Gras begins its slow roll into Ash Wednesday, let me wish you and yours a joyeux Mardi Gras and a very thoughtful Lenten season. Here at the Irish compound, we're back from the parades and warmed and dry from a day along St. Charles Avenue. Despite the weather, we enjoyed the frivolity (and … [Read more...]
This weekend, nine Irish took to the podia, weight benches, and drill spaces to "[. . .] jump, and run across the floor, and perform many other feats, exhibiting [their] activity and condition." Each of them, and close to three hundred other ex-college players, are participating in this century's … [Read more...]
http://youtu.be/ReuOZ7SjOqM Baseball is tradition-rich and quirky and democratic. No other sport encourages to keep your own score and expects you not to jinx the perfect game going on in front of you. It's one in which fans collect cards and obsess over trivia like no other. It's a game of … [Read more...]
With National Signing Day behind us, and the Irish larder "full," I thought it might be a fun way to start the week by looking at how our opponents fared and have fared over the last four years. Before I begin, though, I want to explain my methodology, such as it is. First, I decided to use Rivals. … [Read more...]
National Signing Day 2014 is in the books for the Irish, the Golden Army, and it its twenty-three commitments. For those of you who read my stuff (hi dad!), you know that my take on recruiting and signing day is a touch jaundiced. I'm not going to get really excited, one way or the other, until … [Read more...]
