A Notre Dame Football Blog
We’re BAAAAAAAAAAACK! HLS Peeps, its Throwback Week. Wherein Domer.MQ (AKA IDTHEMIKE) and I, The (one and only) Biscuit get back into things. For 1 week. Seriously. For 1 week. No longer. Sad? Sorry. All we can do. DEAL WITH IT DEAR READERS. DEEEEEEAL. So, what’s going on here? Well, MQ and I one night, drunkenly, thought this would be good to do during the season. Then the season passed. And we kept winning. And winning. And winning. And we kept not writing, not writing, and not writing. ...
It's 2018, and much has changed in the aesthetic world of Notre Dame Football fandom. There's a Stadium, but it now has a $500 million facelift, a video board, and an artificial playing surface. Our helmets, while no longer painted on Fridays by student managers, are proper gold to match the Dome. The pants, too, are a darker gold. The Shamrock Series is on hiatus currently, but we still see the special uniform every once-and-again at a neutral venue. NBC keeps nudging home games ...
Long-time loyal readers of HLS know that I'm a numbers guy. After Notre Dame's national title victory last night, quite a few numbers ran through my head. There was the deficit the Irish came back from (15). The record low number of points that Notre Dame scored in the second quarter that caused said deficit (3). Muffet McGraw's career win total (800). The amount of bullshit seconds added back to the clock to halt the Irish celebration (0.1). However, the numbers that truly stick out, and ...
Championship hockey! There is nothing better than putting it all on the line for a chance to play in a championship game. Saturday night was no different. The #4 seed Ohio State Buckeyes were back at Notre Dame to take on the #1 seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the B1G Conference Championship title. The inaugural season for the Fighting Irish in the B1G had come to a climax. All that was missing was the whistle and a puck drop to get the evening underway. The capacity crowd of 5,515 ...
Notre Dame celebrates after closing out a series win against LSU 11-3. (Screen capture via WatchESPN)
At this point, LSU probably doesn't want to see Notre Dame on their schedule in any sport. For the first time since 1999 LSU lost their opening series. That team was Texas, a perennial baseball power, not a team picked to finish last in their division as the Irish were. The Irish didn't just squeak two wins out of this three game set either. They won convincingly and damn near swept the series. In game one, the Irish took a 6-0 lead into the bottom of the sixth. 5th year southpaw, Scott ...
The Fighting Irish are now in the home stretch of their hockey season at Compton Family Ice Arena. Last weekend, the Fighting Irish split the weekend match-up against the Buckeyes. At this point in the season, the Fighting Irish need to be preparing themselves for post season play. The offense should be passing the puck crisp, making smart passes and wearing down their opponents defense. The defense should be working on getting the puck out of their opponent's offensive end and not playing like ...
And here is Part II of: From Football to Coffee Beans? Discovering the Secret of Life “1585689 Inmate West. In prison, they count you multiple times a day, so it doesn’t take long to memorize your number.” “The bus ride to prison was an awful ride. You’re handcuffed to another man, so if he needs to go to the bathroom, you go to the bathroom. You go everywhere together. It’s a 10 hour ride. It’s August, it’s hot and there is no air conditioning. It’s just like you see in the movies. Then, ...
Damon West: From Division I football to coffee beans?
Port Arthur, Texas. Have you ever heard of it? If you’re a fan of Notre Dame Football, you might have, as it is the home of one Christie Flanagan. Flanagan earned his spot in Fighting Irish lore by becoming Knute Rockne’s star halfback after the Four Horsemen departed. Here’s how the iconic Grantland Rice described him: “There was only one lone Horseman riding against the skyline of Fame when Notre Dame met the Army in their annual classic at Yankee Stadium this afternoon, but this time one ...
Via @NDFootball's Official Announcement
It's a tradition unlike any other. At some point in the offseason, Notre Dame fans cause a great disturbance in the Force. ...
Folks, the 2017 has officially concluded. In true fashion, the podcast is delayed a day which, of course, brings some of the worst possible news for Notre Dame fans. Plus, winners are announced for the HLS Pick 'Em. We will take a bit of a break after this episode--mostly to avoid bringing any further terrible news for at least a little while. ...