Due to logistics out of our control, there will be no gameday chat today. Feel free to chat away on the sidebar to the right to your hearts content, but do also check in on our Twitter account, as Biscuit streams every random, drunken thought he has today. Enjoy, and Go Irish! ...
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HLS Sells Out
Yeah, okay, so we've decided to be sell outs. We've added advertising to the site. For the 4 of you who read the blog with regularity before this year, you can now moan and groan to all your friends who only recently started reading us and have conversations like this: Friend: "Hey, have you heard about that amazing Notre Dame football blog, HerLoyalSons.com? They're incredible! So smart, so witty, so good looking! And funny! And they don't just cover ND Football either. Yeah, they ...
Does The Site Look Weird To You?
If it does, and by "look weird," I mean, "the logo is all screwed up, with a white or gray background, and everything is misaligned," then it's time to upgrade your browser. We're not going to radically change the look and feel of the site, but we're going to evolve a few things. The more modern browsers will let us do things that the older browsers (read: IE 6) wont. The slight changes to the look and feel of HLS this weekend will serve as a good litmus test for you to determine if your ...
A Call For Help
Help! For years now, I've been lambasting the song, "Here Come The Irish." Not so much because of its musical merits, but because of what I understood to be the genesis of the song (read: it was commissioned by those concerned with the "branding/marketing" of ND). But I've recently been presented with a very different story. So I turn to you, millions of readers, to set me straight. Either share the "real story" in the comments section, or e-mail us at the address over on the right. I ...
Friday Roundup: The “This Can’t Be Happening” Edition
I'm 30 Today. "From the point of sensuous experience, the estimate of age is low, melancholy, and skeptical. Frankly face the facts, and see the result. Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time." - Ralph Waldo Emerson The Roundup: That Lou, always tempering expectations. I'd expect a transfer request any moment now. He's down on it, but can he get down with it? See a trend here? This is the stuff puff-pieces ...
New HLS Features!
With the 2008 Season quickly approaching, I've been subscribing to various blogs and news sources that focus on our 2008 opponents so I'll be appropriately prepped. As a result, we now have an updated "Our Opponents' Latest News" widget to on the right sidebar. We've retasked the robots that race around the set of tubes on the internet consuming and processing humans news about our 2007 opponents to consume and process news about our 2008 opponents. We also have a brand-new widget, the ...
Don’t Forget Your Bracketitis!
Does something feel a little funny today? Do you feel out of sorts? It's probably your Bracketitis! It's not too late to sign up for this year's bout of HLS Bracketitis. Just click the link below and use the ever-clever password we've supplied to join! http://herloyalsons.mayhem.sportsline.com/e Password: louholtz ...
HLS Bracketitis: The Recurrence!
Knows a things or two about things that end in "itis." The HLS March Madness Bracketitis is back! And this time it's raging! That's right friends, it's the best time of the off-season: A time when something nearly suffices to fully distract our hearts and minds from College Football. The brackets have been announced, and it's time for you to fill out your picks here for a chance to win... absolutely nothing! But hey, if you win, you can shout out in bars, "I've got a raging case of ...
HLS Fires Creators of New Coke
Well, the response to New HLS left a lot to be desired, so we're going to have the consultants and the engineers go back in their lab and work on the layout a bit more. Still, we do have some changes we really want to get to, like: Reader participation in the extraordinarily competitive, but horribly executed Expert Picks "Buy me a beer." The HLS Forums The HLS Readers' Top 25 It's an ambitious set of new features considering we have other jobs that, you know, pay us money, and even ...
Change is Afoot at HLS as Well
So, unless you have some weird cache issues in your browser, you're probably noticing that we've changed the look of the place. We've been thinking about doing it for a while. We really liked the old look, but when you look at the same thing for a long time, over and over again, you can get sort of sick of it. Or so say most of my ex-girlfriends. The main drive behind the new layout is that we hope to enable people to find more content more quickly. We also hope to start building some ...