The Fighting Irish don't just fight on the gridiron and we here at HerLoyalSons wanted to use the break from football to introduce you to the other Fall sports. There're some great things happening on the fields, rivers and hills and dales of 'merica as the Irish take on all comers around the country. So, without further ado, please, if you will, this: Women's Soccer: ND's women's soccer team brings a 7-3-1 record to Conntecticut this weekend as they square off against the Huskies (7-4-1) in ...
Robinson Can’t Tell Maize from Gold, Irish move to 4-0
Denard Robinson, however horrific his performance, is not the reason Notre Dame got the Michigan monkey off its collective back, finally. No, Notre Dame's defense is the reason. The Irish are really, really good on defense. ND's young corners played a good enough game to help the secondary move to "This I Can Handle" on the Notre Dame Fan Freak Out-meter. Our ends and LB's simply exploded Michigan's line, helping Prince Shembo find his pilfered bicycle seat in the Wolverines' backfield. And ...
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle: Why We Hate Michigan
It's here: Michigan Week. "Michigan," a Chippewa word for "meh," evokes many things to many people: collapsed infrastructure, invading asian carp and wolverines, a solitary creature whose Latin name (Gulo gulo) means "glutton." ...
Good Works, Golic! Mike Golic, Jr. named to 2012 Allstate ACFA Good Works Team
We're very proud to announce that Mike Golic, Jr. has been named to the 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®. Here's a portion of the press release just in to HerLoyalSons headquarters: "Allstate Insurance Company and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) today announced the 22 college football players from across the country named to the 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®. One of the sport’s premier service honors, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® shines a spotlight on the ...
Notre Dame Upsets Sparty, Dantonio
Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Watching the (then) 20th-ranked Irish invade Spartan Stadium and take care of business against the (then) 10th-ranked Michigan State Spartans harkened back to a different era of Notre Dame football, a time when wins like this were expected, a time when Notre Dame exerted its will and took care of business. Sure, there were losses, but there were mostly wins, and there was swagger. And last night, the Irish brought that back. And somewhere, Rick Reilly and ...
Irish Blogger Gathering: Going “All In” with The Subway Domer
It's been a long time since The Irish were 2-0 and all was right under the Golden Dome. Ha. Personally, I've never seen such anxiety during a win (against Purdue last Saturday) and the amount of nervous ink spilled after a loss was unprecedented. And yet. And yet, Notre Dame rose to 20 in the AP Poll and they are set to play Michigan State in East Lansing in PRIME TIME. So, what's it mean and how should you be betting your mortgage payment? This week, The Subway Domer met me at Lafitte's ...
Would You Rather Not Be 2-0? Let’s Put Purdue in Perspective.
Okay. Our running game was off, our O-line couldn't contain Purdue's Kawann Short and the winning drive was orchestrated by Tommy Rees. So, there's a lot of reason to feel queasy as we enter Sparty week. But if you're a glass-is-half-full kinda guy, or if you're Biscuit (who basically predicted the first two weeks of the season), there's a lot to feel very good about. In other words, it's all about perspective. At this point in the 2011 campaign, The Irish were 0-2, unranked and -7 in the old ...
Looking Ahead to Purdue: “That’s one small step for man, one really boring zzzzzzzzzz.”
The Fighting Irish (1-0) play host to Purdue (1-0) on Saturday and by the end of the game, the Irish should be 2-0 and we should all be sleepier and rather more lethargic for having watched. Coming off a 50-10 comprehensive (a Latin word for "ignore special teams and some secondary issues") demolition of Navy, the Irish vaulted into the national polls. Purdue, on the other hand, roughed up perenial FCS powerhouse Eastern Kentucky and promptly delivered unto themselves a quarterback controversy. ...
You Don’t Score Fifty Without Doing Something Right
As you know by now, your 2012 Fighting Irish took to the field on Saturday in Dublin, Ireland, and kicked off the season against the Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy. And down here on da bayou, we had quite a week, weather-wise, so by the time Saturday rolled around, I was definitely ready for some football, air conditioning and cold, cold beer. Truth be told, we got power back on Friday at the Bayou Ranch, but it WAS remarkably hot walking from my car to the pub for the game watch. ...
Davidson College Ranks Ahead of The Irish: GSR or a Sick Rick Reilly Fantasy?
I can't do anything about Lo Wood's Achilles, but I can do something about the Janus Bifrons of anti-journalism that is ColinReilly a/k/a RickCowherd. Now, I don't need to go after these dopes on their lazy opinions. Twibby did that already. I'm going to go after their underlying fiction as it pertains to "student-athletics" because I refuse to throw up my hands and acquiesce to the notion that college football is just one big academic fraud (Cowherd) or that Notre Dame needs to be taken down ...