ND Football kicked off the 2014 season at home against Rice. Returning quarterback Everett Golson accounted for 5 touchdowns in the 48-17 victory. Here is a sample of the real-time Twitter reaction and commentary. ...
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Jameis Winston Takes Crab Legs from Publix: A Twitter Summary
2013 Heisman Trophy winner & Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston has sidestepped legal issues before, but today his spotted (speckled?) past may have caught up with him. He was cited for stealing crab legs from a supermarket. Here's a collection of the real-time Twitter reaction and commentary. ...
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Notre Dame Football Switches from Grass to Turf: A Twitter Summary
On Saturday, Notre Dame Football completed its spring football practice sessions with the 85th Blue-Gold Game, but the off-field (on-field?) story was Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick's announcement. Here's a small collection of the real-time fan reaction & commentary. ...
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Notre Dame Basketball vs. Connecticut: A Twitter Summary
On Tuesday, an undefeated Notre Dame women's basketball team faced off against the undefeated Connecticut Huskies in the championship game. Here's a collection of some of the real-time fan reaction and commentary. ...
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HLS Gives You Whiskey
Loyal Readers, you're the best. You cheer for the Irish, put up with our April Fools jokes, you endure #HLSrecapMadness voting shenanigans, you threaten me when I exclude you from Twitter summaries... You deserve a reward. #wHLSkey Last football season, I joked that #HLSrecap needed to find a corporate partner so I could reward you people with nimble thumbs and quick wit. But we didn't want anything too "corporate" or stuffy, and I hatched upon the idea of finding a whiskey partner. About ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Championship Round
Alright, people. Here we go: for all the (metaphorical and hypothetical) marbles, I present the final tweets as voted by you, The Internet. You may be upset at me (and rightly so) about suspicious seeding and shenanigans that cast a dark cloud over the first half of the tournament that brings us a final matchup of an 8-seed vs. a 12-seed. I'll counter by asking why you people eliminated so many worthy tweets in the early rounds. While the aptly named #HLSrecapMadness is an online ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Final Four
So it has come down to this. Sixty-four tweets, innumerable shenanigans, and we're left with four brave souls (I don't think we have any gingers left in this competition, do we?). Because voting on The Internet is serious business, I wanted to give you some more background on each of your finalists. You'll find their answers to my hard-hitting questions below. ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Elite Eight
We're coming down to the wire, ladies and gentlemen. It was a good year to be seeded in the 6-13 range, as all but one of our remaining 8 contestants used this lower-profile status to their advantage. I've made a couple adjustments on how poll votes are collected, so we should see some lower totals. The" Get Out The Vote" campaigns are still encouraged, however. ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Sweet Sixteen
Well the Round of 32 ended in a flurry of activity -- polls didn't close on time, leads changed hands at the last minute, we may have had people delete entire Twitter accounts, @HLS_hamster mistakenly took a vacation day and stopped powering the site server... You know, typical #HLSrecapMadness. As for me, the votes say I came up just short on Poot, but everyone knows nobody comes up short on Poot. It is with a heavy heart that I press on, although I'm out of the tournament. Cast Your ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Round of 32
Well, that was great fun, wasn't it? I was about to chide myself for poor seeding, but then actual March Madness happened, so #HLSrecapMadness looks downright tame by comparison. No matter, we're still here and ready to rumble -- half of the lower seeds advanced, and we've already lost two 1-seeds and last year's champion. Cast Your Vote! We're going to move a little more quickly now -- polls close Wednesday, and I'll be back on Thursday with the #HLSrecapMadness Sweet Sixteen. To all you ...