A Notre Dame Football Blog
Icons never blink. I’m not talking about the things that show up on computer screens, or popular celebrities. I’m talking about real icons – deeply religious images. They constantly stare out at us; and they never blink. Just as the word ‘icon’ is overused and improperly used, so, too, is the word ‘iconic’. It seems everything today is described as ‘iconic’ – party songs, adventure films, sports stars. Yet none of these things demands contemplation, or touches the soul the way a real icon ...
The NCAA released the latest tranche of data pertaining to the graduation rates of the country's student-athletes, known as Academic Progress Rate, or APR. On this Day o' the Draft, a day in which we all prostrate ourselves before the altar of mercantilism and money, I felt it somehow appropriate to look at how the Irish did this year, insofar as academics are concerned. I think you might be surprised. "This year" is, of course, a complicated term, when speaking of a program's APR. Earlier ...