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Weekly Video Mocking: Purdue Edition

One thing I have never seen is an ad for Notre Dame football tickets. The day may come, of course, when that will change. It will depend on whether or not the school continues to charge $70 per seat to watch the Irish feast on such morsels as Tulsa and Western Michigan. [...]

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Father’s Re-re-re-introduction

Salve Magisterium,
It has been a year and a half since my last profession.  I have been writing and thinking, about this, that, and occasionally, your sister, just not on this particular forum.
Like all stalwart Catholics, I must at times seclude myself in a beehive hut in some sparsely populated region of the world and contemplate [...]

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A passing in the Notre Dame/NBC family

Sadly, NBC and Notre Dame will be missing a familiar face when this season eventually, finally, rolls around.  Bea Arthur has left the building.

Silky coiffed Bea Arthur waves “So long” to an indifferent crowd of well-wishers.
Soon after the cancellation of her hit sit-com Golden Girls, Arthur found her way to another passion: Notre Dame football.  [...]

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Making the Fake News

Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick was extensively fake-quoted  in this week’s Onion Sports section as a representative of the BCS in an article entitled “Cheering Fans, Thrilling NCAA Tournament Disgust BCS Officials.”
Regardless of where you stand on the bowl system it’s a funny read that paints various collegiate administrators as vampiric figures, dependent on the pain [...]

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More than one tight end?

For those who held their breath last season whenever Kyle Rudolph was tackled by the face, there’s good news: Notre Dame has more than one tight end!
Welcome back, Ragone!  As noted in the South Bend Trib article, he was the #1 ranked Tight End in his recruiting class (a granfalloon term if I’ve ever heard [...]

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What to do with all this rage

I’ve had this problem a lot this year.  What do I do with all this rage?  How can I make my life feel better after giving up yet another large lead in the fourth quarter to an inferior opponent?  And this time losing?  Mother fucking god dammit.
I say mother fucking god dammit with the matter-of-factness [...]

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A missive from the enclave: pimp cane edition

Salve Magisterium,
After 40 days and 40 nights of fasting, prayer, and utter silence, I entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame Stadium only to find a flood of Biblical proportions.  And it was Good.  Anyone who attended the game on Saturday and was rooting for God’s Chosen College Football Team can attest to the fun that [...]

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Another Missive from the Enclave: Flagellum Equus Mortuus

Salve, Magisterium.
I was visiting with Brother Bernard, the Enclave’s archivist, the other night and beneath the full, silvery moon, with the sound of his rare, red piglets squealing in the background, Brother Bernard passed on to me a rare and unsettling manuscript.  For centuries the Enclave has gathered every piece of writing in existence.  Not [...]

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