This week, the Michigan State football chaplain got himself in a bit of trouble for making a public boast about the Spartan basketball team, that was of questionable taste (to say the least). I know this is as much of a shock to you as it is to me – not that a priest has a filthy mouth, but that Michigan State athletes would welcome a man of God without trying to boil and eat him. I’m sure you also had the same initial suspicion that I had: a priest with low manners joining freely with our ...
Notre Dame Men's Basketball
Good Friday’s w/Padre: Pope Brian
I really must applaud the basketball lads for doing their best to fill the time in the bleak mid-winter. Not for them, a regular-old basketball game. No, our Notre Dame men are pushing their contests from long to longer and even to epochal – and by that I mean measured in geological time. It is a noble effort, but I fear it may be shortening their life-spans and those of the Leprechaun Legion, who did not see much daylight last Sunday after their own “exertions” on and off the court. ...
ND Basketball vs. Louisville: A Twitter Summary
On February 9, ESPN's College Gameday traveled to the Notre Dame campus to preview the primetime matchup between #11 Louisville Cardinals and the #25 Fighting Irish. The game ended in a 104-101 ND win in a 5-overtime epic. ...
Notre Dame Senior Hits Halfcourt Shot, Wins $18k
So ESPN's College GameDay was in South Bend this morning. In the basketball version of the show, a student from the home school gets 18 seconds to make a halfcourt shot and win $18,000. Notre Dame Senior Casey Murdock was this morning's contestant and it took him only two shots to take home the cash. The video, courtesy of the Fighting Irish Digital Media team, is below, complete with a ND court storming...and a bunny suit. ...
New Look For Irish Basketball As Notre Dame Takes On Villanova
Despite what we might often convince you here at HLS, it is basketball season right now. And Notre Dame basketball is in the midst of some pretty crazy stuff currently. ...
Notre Dame vs. Kentucky: A Twitter Summary
On November 29, the Notre Dame men's basketball team hosted Kentucky, defending national champions and ranked #8 nationally. The game was televised on ESPN. ...
Hoop There It Is: ND v. KY
I have about had enough of this ESS EEE SEE superiority bullshiat. We're playing KENTUCKY people! COME! ON! KENTUCKY!???! We have Manti and Tyler, Everett and Nix, Stephon and what? I'm... oh. Basketball. Got it. So tomorrow night on ESPN2 (The Deuce), your Fighting Irish cagers take on the eighth-ranked Wildcats of Kentucky in a wildly important, early season game with massive implications not, so much, for the season, but for the program. Win, and the Irish are on freaking fire -- in case ...
You Can’t Stop Brittney Griner, You Can Only Hope to Contain Her
Down here on "da Bayou," amid all the crawfish pie and file gumbo, one's usual reaction to encountering something of Brittney Griner's size, presence and skill is to, in the words of any one of the Swamp People, "'choot it!" Last night, Notre Dame took the floor against a woman who may one day be remembered as the most dominant female basketplayer ever. In a game that saw the Irish spring to an early lead but ultimately yield to a machine-like foe, and thus play out a seasonal homage on parquet ...
Sunday Night Madness
Last night's ND v. UConn game had more turnovers than a bakery, worse defense than the Ardennes Forest in 1940 and the overall feel of two talented teams who have played each other so many times and know each other so well that neither wanted to win for fear of causing hurt feelings. Still, in the end, ND pulled out a victory that was as exciting as any finish could be. When it matter, Mallory mattered. Diggins dominated. And Notre Dame is one tough Baylor squad away from a ...
Party Like It’s 2011: Lady Irish in the Final Four Again
After a run in which their smallest margin of victory was 11, capped of by the absolute destruction of Maryland by 31 (not a typo), the Lady Irish find themselves in the same position as they did last season, a Final Four game against rival UCONN. Last season, ND took down the favored Huskies 72-63, but fell just short of the national title, losing to Texas A&M 76-70. This season though, the Lady Irish, led by junior point guard, Skylar Diggins, are looking for a different fate. Diggins, ...