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Good morning! We're still collecting pledges to purchase the Boda collection and return it to Notre Dame. Read more about this important piece of history and make your pledge here. Here are your headlines: FROM OUR SITE BK era: Scoring offense and defense RECRUITING One Foot Down: OFD opinions: 2016 recruiting top target (Joejuan Williams, Josh King and Rashan Gary) 247 Sports: Six earn invite to The Opening at LA regional (Matt Fink) AL.com: Auburn in good position with RB ...
Good morning! Here are your headlines: VIDEO Irish Illustrated: NFL Combine interview: DaVaris Daniels (5:23) Scout: Scout spotlight: Bo Wallace (00:54) Irish Illustrated: NFL Combine interview: Ben Koyack (5:10) RECRUITING Scout: The No. 1 center in Florida will visit Auburn (Brett Heggie, brother of Bruce Heggie) Scout: Noah Davis finding recruiting surreal (Notre Dame has not offered) Irish Sports Daily: Recruiting week in review (Chauncey Gardner & Tre Nixon) Fox ...
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Good morning! I had this vivid dream about the nation's top water polo recruit announcing his decision by throwing three balls - each with the logo of a prospective school - at a goal. Two hit the post and fall away. The one that goes in the goal is the team he's committing to. I told my wife about this dream. Her reply: "But what if the wrong ball goes into the goal?" Here are your headlines: RECRUITING ND Observer: No last-day surprises as Irish ink 24 players ND Observer: Wimbush, ...
So the Freemasons have won. Or the Illuminati, Rosicrucians, Elders of the Priory of Sion – let’s just call them the E-lders of the S-ion P-riory freemasoNs. They and their Rodent Overlord enjoy a complete victory; they have taken over college football and forced the creation of the playoff system that they have long wanted, and will long broadcast, for lots of money. I mourn the passing of an era. Gone are the days when the leading teams from regional affiliations of colleges would compete ...
It was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons; it was a game of touchdowns, it was a game of turnovers; it was the inspiration for belief, it was the cause of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the autumn of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had a playoff berth before us, we had a second-tier bowl before us; we were in Heaven on earth, we were in a cold, wet Stadium of defeat. Since 1887, we’ve had worse seasons, but few as ...
I am hailed as the Founder of Notre Dame; also the first Postmaster (go figure). These are great honorifics of which I am proud. But the title closest to my heart has always been Father. I consider all of you to be my loyal sons – and thanks to Ted’s innovations, loyal daughters. Indeed, you are all my children. I’m told there was a beautiful opera by that title, though I don’t recall it in Verdi’s or Wagner’s repertoire. However, though I am called Father, I have never had children of ...
This week I had a chance to sit down with fellow Notre Dame author, Jerry Barca. His current book "Unbeatable," which details the 1988 National Title winning team, is being released on paperback on August 5th. Here are Jerry's thoughts on field turf, the '88 championship team and what makes Notre Dame such a special place. How did you first become a Notre Dame fan? Jerry Barca: I was born Irish-Italian and Catholic in New Jersey. I don’t think there was much choice about it. It was just ...
Coach Kelly announced earlier this year that he would be taking over offensive play-calling duties for the Irish. He expressed his interest in becoming more involved, perhaps as involved as the 2012-2013 season during which he called plays and the team made it to the national championship game. Play-calling coaches are sort of an endangered species so of course his decision has been met with mixed reviews. Cons include the thought that Kelly may have too much on his plate this season trying ...
Left-Right: AFL-CIO leader in New York, Vinny Alverez; AFL-CIO Washington Director, Randy Kinder (Notre Dame class of 1997); Joe Delaney, ND Club of SI; Marcus Wilson, Notre Dame class of 2005
This past weekend I had a chance to talk with former Notre Dame running back Randy Kinder about his involvement with the Bread of Life Food Drive that is currently being supported by the Lou's Lads Foundation. The Bread of Life Food Drive (B.O.L.D.) began back in the spring of 1992 through the ND Club of Staten Island. Randy was introduced to the food drive two years ago when he was in meetings with local New York union electricians. The topic of ND came up during the meeting and they ...
Kinnon Tatum at Notre Dame, 1995
Back when football was a hard-hitting, rough, physical, my-job-is-to-kill-you sort of game, there was a country boy named Kinnon Tatum. He was a rough and tumble, I’m-coming-to-get-you, head-banging kind of player and he loved it. He turned down offers from UNC and Georgia Tech and left the warm comfortable environment of Fayetteville, North Carolina to play football in the lake effect tormented town of South Bend, Indiana for the University of Notre Dame. Playing football at ND was no walk in ...