By now, you should be familiar with our Twitter recaps of Notre Dame football and basketball games, aka the #HLSRecap. If you aren't, you are definitely missing out and should join in on the fun. With March Madness upon us, Irish Elvis and I got a crazy idea: to select the best tweet from our football recaps via a 64-tweet bracket. ...
Friday Roundup
Friday Roundup: The “Party Like a Champion Today” Edition
On Saturday, I will join with the Notre Dame Club of Dallas to partake in the St. Patrick's Day Parade here in Dallas. Since Gong Show caliber parties are at the forefront of my mind, and since I'm doing a good job at telling two month old stories this week, I figure now is a great time to discuss the most epic tailgate that I had the pleasure of partaking in: The 'Ship Tailgate. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Camp HLS” Edition
Notre Dame football is still a couple of weeks away from their spring practice officially starting. However, they are now in the middle of "Camp Kelly" -- the infamous grueling, yet needed, workouts in preparation for spring football. The success of 2012 is now a distant memory and the time to lay the groundwork for the 2013 campaign begins with Paul Longo's cracking of the offseason whip. HLS had quite a successful year in 2012 as well. The launch of our new theme and addition of our new ...
Friday Roundup: The “College Football is the WWE” Edtion
During this past season, I somehow got into a tangential discussion on Twitter in which we matched college football teams with WWE superstars. It was mostly in fun, not overly serious, but the more I think about it, the more I think we were seriously onto something. After all, most college football fans definitely fall under the category of a "mark", easily manipulated by trolls of rival teams (or just trolls in general). Case in point, this week's Troll Tuesday post from SBN jokingly took ...
Friday Roundup: The “The Blind Leading the Blind” Edition
There are times when I wonder if the NCAA really knows what it's doing. This entire debacle with the University of Miami is one of those times. This week, the NCAA finally handed down a notice of allegations to Miami stemming back from violations reported back in August of 2011 by Yahoo! Sports. In those allegations, the good 'ol "lack of institutional control" was thrown into the mix, most likely meaning Miami's self-sanctions won't be enough to prevent further NCAA punishment -- just ask ...
Friday Roundup: The Pretender to the Throne Edition
Heisman. Pulitzer. Nobel. Tony. Roundup. In a Notre Dame sports blogger's life, there are perhaps few honors more sought-after than penning the HLS Friday Roundup. And, because Twibby, Grantland-X, Biscuit, Lisa, Father Sorin, RiverPark Seer and Flannerite were all busy, the moment has fallen to me to recap a week in which, well, this happened: Free Slaughter: word came down Thursday that the NCAA denied Jamoris Slaughter's appeal for a sixth year, closing the door on a fine young man's ND ...
Friday Roundup: The “And Now the Offseason Really Begins” Edition
With National Signing Day now behind us, the offseason begins in earnest. It's definitely a mixed bag. On the one hand, it gives us all here at HLS time to breathe a little bit without having to worry about the next game or being ready to analyze a recruiting class at the drop of hat. On the other, we will all go a little stir crazy while waiting for the Blue/Gold game. Despite that, the Roundup will still go strong, grabbing on to every last piece of football news while we await for the ...
Friday Roundup: The “Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming” Edition
Well the month on January certainly flew by and sadly not a whole lot of it was positive from the Notre Dame side. Wrong side of a championship blowout, Brian Kelly checking out the NFL, and the Te'o Hoax -- that's the hand that we got dealt this month. I started the whole #NDFBIsDeterminedToKillMe bit on Twitter as a joke to best sum up my frustrations with Notre Dame football a couple of years to go. This month, I'm surprised it didn't actually happen. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Finding Closure” Edition
The insanity is starting to subside. The deluge of stories is receding. The final touches of a PR strategy likely executed. Yes, the coverage of the Manti Te'o hoax is nearing the end of its news cycle at long last. Or at least I'm 80% sure it is. I'm sure more details will be released. My timeline will likely see another update. More people will speak out. But I'm ready to close the book on this matter and move on. And I'm 100% sure of that. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Yes, Even More Te’o Hoax News” Edition
I'm not staying up nearly as late as I did last night/this morning when I compiled yesterday's post on all the news that came out in regards to the Manti Te'o hoax. More news has come out and this story has yet again taken even more crazy twists and turns. This will likely continue until Manti speaks and tells his side of the story, but until then, the speculation and craziness will remain. But hey, the Roundup must go on right? Let's get to the latest developments in this circus. The ...