Last night I was traveling home from Chicago. As I arrived in the Mid-Atlantic, I quickly took a look at twitter. Jimmer, for BYU, had apparently just scored a shot from somewhere in the rafters, and the masses were going wild. Meanwhile, UConn's Kemba Walker was was doing his best Jordan impression. And all the while, dozens of folks I follow on Twitter were eating it all up. The excitement was tangible. These 2 exciting, important games were being played at the exact same time, and ...
Come Twitter Chat with Us During The 1st Round Tourney Games
We've got the shoutbox to the right, of course, but if you happen to be a twitterer, and you want to save your non-ND fan tweeps any mental streams of excitement of anguish today during the NCAA tourney, I invite you to come on over to our little twitter-based chat at: http://nurph.com/herloyalsons To participate, it requires a twitter login, and it requires that I follow you with our @HerLoyalSons twitter account, so if you'd like to do so, and I don't currently follow you, just tweet me to ...
Notre Dame at Fault in Declan Sullivan’s Death – UPDATE
According to the Indiana Department of Labor, Notre Dame is at fault for the death of Declan Sullivan last Fall. You can get a few details of the findings and resulting fine here. EDIT: Follow this link here, since I figure WNDU will pursue this story with more detail than the AP/ESPN. UPDATE: Here's a link to the report by the state (PDF), and probably the most relevant chunk of text is below... ...the supervisor admitted that he had initially instructed untrained employees to ...
It’s Going To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
I don't fear death, but I fear this man, Charles Robinson. Tressel-Gate? Cam-Gate? Carrol-Gate? Kiffin-Gate-o-the-Week? They all may add up to nothing when Charles Robinson, is done with whoever he's currently targeting in his next two investigative reports on the College Football world. According to Charles, one of those reports will be bigger than this Ohio State thing. And the other? Pretty close. Robinson: I've got probably a six to a seven, maybe an eight depending on ...
Friday Roundup: The Admission Edition
We're just making admissions all over the place today! The Roundup The first step is admitting you have a problem. Apparently some believe that Southern Cal would prefer that their head coach of football, Lane Kiffin, just go ahead and admit that he was using the NCAA rulebook as toilet paper while playing the head coach of football at Tennessee. For a year. I admit, this is a different way of doing things. Stanford recruited alum and former Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, to help ...
Friday Roundup: The TGI-Fing-F Edition
What a week. What a month. What a winter. The Roundup And between now and March 22nd, Coach Kelly will spend hours watching Star Trek so he may perfect Mind Melding Coach Kelly will be speaking at the Notre Dame Coaching Clinic. Now, before you get all herpy-derpy on me with this announcement, please note it's not "Coach Kelly who likes to run a really, really fast offense." It's Coach Kelly who likes to run a really, really, really, really, really fast offense and attended the last ...
Inaugural HLS Cue Card Contest Finalist (from that little contest we started last year, ahem)
GREETINGS! It is I, the owner/operator of HLS, back briefly from the blogging dead to unveil our finalists in the inaugural HLS Cue Card Contest! Huzzah! Biscuit and I spent a full man-month deliberating on our picks, and here ya go. Please vote between now and 11:59pm, Friday. Winner gets a book, so this is serious stuff! And the finalists are... "Trips Left Hail Mary" "Shotgun, Trips Left, Fade to Kamara on a Post Route." (How do you throw a fade on a post? - mq) ...
HLS Likely To Enjoy Most Epic Beer Week In History Of ND Football In A Few Years
You've probably already seen the reports. Temple will announce on Thursday that its football team has scheduled what is believed to be a three-game series with Notre Dame, sources familiar with the situation have told the Daily News. Nothing's official until it's official, yadda yadda yadda... and I'll just leave the debate over whether or not ND should be playing Temple in college football at all so we can focus on more important matters: As God is my witness, if ND does play ...
Boost Your Compliance Knowledge, um… Boosters
The ND Compliance office saw our post about the epidemic of weirdos friending recruits on Facebook and following them on Twitter. They sent this link along to us, and I think it's a great little primer on how you should really behave as a fan and booster of Notre Dame Athletics. So do me a favor and give it a read over lunch. Thanks! ASK BEFORE YOU ACT ...
Do. Not. “Friend.” Recruits. On. Facebook.
And stop following them on Twitter too, you creeps. We're apparently 8 days away from signing day, also known as "the day before the next recruiting period begins." And since we're within a hop-skip-and-a-jump of this, the 3rd most important day in the year-round college football season, it appears quite a few people have decided to "dive right in" to a pool of insane mixed with asinine. "People on Facebook trying to tell him this school is this and that school is that," Johnson's ...