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Questionable Morality

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Yesterday, Father John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, penned an article through the New York Times opinion page. You might have recognized it under its original title "Science Alone Could Not Tell Us Whether to Reopen Notre Dame" (which didn't even survive twelve hours). The article houses not just Notre Dame's plan for trying to safely reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the logic, or more specifically, the cited philosophical musings around the morality of education during said ...

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Podcast & Video: Notre Dame Virtual Blue-Gold Game 2020

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Just because the actual 2020 Notre Dame Blue-Gold game was cancelled doesn't mean we still can't enjoy spring football virtually. Yes, that means Shane and I did what we do best: dusted off the XBox, fired up NCAA '14 and simmed ourselves a glorified practice for all to enjoy. However, knowing that this would be the only thing even close to a live football telecast and Notre Dame football experience this spring, we decided to go the extra mile. We had a Zoom chat up in the brackground to ...

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Saturday Now a Tommy Rees Doubleheader Presented by HLS and One Foot Down

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Loyal Readers, I'm happy to announce that our Blue-Gold Sim won't be the only Notre Dame football that you can take in this Saturday to chase away your quarantine blues. One Foot Down has been doing some Notre Dame re-watches the past few weeks and it will continue with Tommy Rees heading into my backyard in 2013 in the all-white Shamrock Series uniform glory at 2 PM ET over at YouTube. So once we wrap up, be sure to head over there to keep your Notre Dame football buzz (and potentially your ...

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Join Us for the Virtual Blue-Gold Game @ 12:30 PM EDT Saturday, April 18

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As most of us are now in some form of COVID-19 quarantine, I must say the days are absolutely blending together. To make matters worse, the past three weeks I've had added focus on additional charity work, including #HLSMadness for Feeding America and Extra Life United (both of which raised over $2,000). With that, I totally forgot the original date of the now cancelled Blue-Gold game was supposed to take place this Saturday at 12:30 PM EDT. Loyal Readers and Viewers, have no fear, I did ...

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HLS Sim Madness: #HAILGAMBLOR

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Tomorrow, HLS will kick of a glorious virtual competition, featuring 68 of the best virtual football teams NCAA '14 has to offer. Today, we introduce something to help fill another void created by a lack of sports: degenerate gambling. Now, we aren't setting up an HLS bookie system. This is all virtual currency. We've joked about "Space Bucks" on the HLS pod and, well, now we've made it a reality. Last season, I activated a loyalty program within Streamlabs and, if you've watched any HLS ...

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HLS Sim Madness: Selection Sunday

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As we mentioned the other day, we here at HLS are looking to try to do what we can to fill the void arising from the cancellations of both March Madness and spring football. It's time for us to reveal the field of 68 virtual teams that will battle it out for pretend gridiron glory. Before we do that, let's make sure to explain the (limited) logic used to fill the bracket. ...

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Introducing HLS Sim Madness

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As I publish this post, we should be settling in--or more accurately devising a clever scheme at work--for the NCAA Basketball tournament. To kill time before tip, we are typically checking out our favorite news outlets and blogs for the latest breakdowns of the latest well-edited spring practice video. Instead, we find ourselves deprived of these simple joys due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Lunchtime tip replaced by daily pressers from the White House. Planning for office bracket pools swapped ...

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HLS Podcast: St. Patrick’s Pandemic Emergency Pod

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Shane and I weren't planning on doing any podcasts until the Blue/Gold game came near in April. That decision seems like decades ago rather than a couple of months. COVID-19, aka the Cornoavirus, wasn't even a blip on the radar. When it was clear spring football would be cancelled last week, we made plans to find a time to get back on the podcasting devices. Not even a full week has passed and it already seems like that was a year ago. And now, on night of St. Patrick's Day, we hit the ...

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HLS Podcast: Welcome to the Offseason, Everything’s Crazy

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Shane and I thought we'd have a nice, short relaxing show about the national title game to cap off our 2019 season podcasts. Then all hell broke loose before the offseason aged 24 hours. Notre Dame promoted Tommy Rees to offensive coordinator. Penn State found their way into a brand new scandal. Southern Cal fired everyone in the athletic department besides their football coaches. Joe Brady bolted to the NFL after extinguishing his victory cigar with LSU. Phil Jurkovec saved me from having to ...

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