Here's the press release. Below are things we find notable, and thus we take note here and add the flourishing touch of commentary. “Rally on the Green,†a hospitality village located on Irish Green (adjacent to the south side of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center), will be in operation from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to one-half hour before kickoff for each home game. Access to the area will be free of charge and open to the public. It will feature entertainment on a main ...
Join the 2009 HLS College Football Pick’Em Tournament!
Regular readers may recall that in the past we liked to run a little "Expert Picks" tournament among the founding loyal sons of HLS during the season. As time has passed, we just get busier, and administering our own game is just too daunting a task. Plus, we'd like our readers to be able to participate. So we've created a Pick'Em tournament over at Yahoo, and we'd like to invite and any all readers to join. Tournament Signup: Here Group ID#: 9158 Password: davieham ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 6th Round Pick – #33
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Round: 6 Pick: 33 Player: Brian Smith School: The University of Notre Dame Position: ...
A (only slightly) Less Frantic Post Regarding Today’s Open Practice
First, a thank you and an apology. From the looks of stats that the CoverItLive.com widget gives, our little blow-by-blow of today's open practice got a lot of interest, and we'd like to say thanks for dropping by. Nice to know the effort was worth it. But also, sorry. We're sorry that we couldn't field questions during the event. The liveblogging mobile application didn't support that feature, and apparently Twitter went down a couple times this morning again (yeah, Ruby! [/bad nerd ...
ND Open Practice Liveblog
Hopefully, below this text, a little widget shows up that will allow me to live-blog the open practice on Saturday. If that doesn't work out, I should be doing regular updates on our twitter account as well/in parallel. Here goes nothing... ND Open Practice Liveblog ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 6th Round Pick – #32
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. *Note: After the 5th round, we decided to speed up the draft a bit by each making 2 ...
Friday Roundup: The “Chock-full-O-Nuts” Edition
This morning has been ridiculous. The Roundup: Evan Sharpley, PhD. (Or, if you want to make a really lame joke like the author, PhQB.) (HT: BGS) I have to admit, Ben Ford manages to take 20 minutes of boredom and turn it into 5 minutes of fun. Nicely done. Yes, apparently ND will be playing the Golden Hurricane. No, this isn't a euphemism. No, there's nothing in Du Lac that says you get kicked out of ND for playing the Golden Hurricane. Looks like the SC QB situation is ...
What’s Really Curious About Joe Montana’s Comments
Here's a curious thing: If it can be argued (and I assure you, it can, because it is all the time) that Charlie Weis doesn't really understand the game of college football because he's really only had success and great experience in the NFL, then when Joe Montana, one of the all time great NFL QBs and former ND players goes and says stuff like this, maybe it can be argued that he doesn't really know what he's talking about either. After all, Joe threw 27 interceptions against 25 TDs in his time ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground, Rounds 11 and 12
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Classic Ground gives a quick look at all of the players they've drafted thus far and then ...
ND vs. BC @ Soldier Field in Visual Metaphors
This has sort of blown up. The Eagles’ current series against Notre Dame runs out next year, but the two schools are in talks for a three-game series starting in 2016. The series would include a neutral-site game, with Chicago’s Soldier Field in the discussion. And, frankly, if such a maneuver is really under consideration by Jack Swarbrick as a way to "fix" future scheduling, well, a few pictures come to mind, courtesy of one of the very reasons for the existence of the internet. ...