By now you know that Chicago Sun Times columnist Jay Mariotti has resigned. You probably know because parades have been running all over America in response to the news, violence in major metropolitan areas has dipped in the last 24 hours, and that acid-reflux that’s been giving you fits for the last 6 months [...]

Really, thank God Brian Hamilton and the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune are a bunch of desperate morons looking to manufacture news in order to improve their bottom line and keep their new owner from axing them like he’s been axing so many others. It gives us all something to talk about until [...]

By now you’re all familiar with how the Chicago Tribune’s Notre Dame beat writer, Brian Hamilton, saw a blog post about college kids acting like college kids and decided to manufacture a “news” story about it, first in his own Chicago Tribune Notre Dame blog, and then, once some apparently desperate editors got ahold of [...]

This morning, TheBigLead.com published undated photos of Notre Dame football players Jimmy Clausen, James Aldridge, and Brian Smith at what is apparently a party. And the website notes that said party may have been called “The Beer Olympics.” We noticed the post and thought little of it, figuring that TBL originally posted the [...]

Someone at Notre Dame should probably actually sue ESPN at this point.
From ESPN’s Team Preview of Notre Dame (done in conjunction with Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook):

Not only, however, was there a thought, there was an entire thought process, which Weis described in detail on Feb. 8, nine days after hiring Jon Tenuta as an [...]

Matt Zemek, blogger for Scout.com, and moral authority to us all, took Notre Dame to task, again, because taking Notre Dame to task is one of the 2 standard ways to ensure a lot of traffic to your “work,” and thus a happy editor/employer. This time, he claims that not only has Notre Dame [...]

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 [...]

Generally speaking, I’m most-of-the-time okay with Michael Rothstein’s writing at his “Irish Insights” blog.  While not the most prolific/inspiring writer, he gets some good stories at times.  And while he loooooves to cover the mundane during the off-season, so do we, so we can’t knock him for it.
But, Mike, seriously, you can’t call out Tim [...]