Due to some travel for me, we'll be moving up the final day of bidding to Wednesday, 8/21 at noon PST. So GET YOUR BIDS IN NOW! We will contact winners only on Wednesday afternoon. Questions? Tweet us or comment. Details below! Good luck! Earlier Post: Welcome back to another season of Irish Football! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! RACK EM FLACK EM PACK EM CRACK EMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!! Last season our Silent Auction benefiting the ND General Scholarship Fund and ...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Bags and Bulls
I’ve always been a firm believer in introducing change slowly. For instance, private rooms for the lads. Sure it’s nice to live in your own broom closet, rather than a human barn; but what sort of mischief will a lad get up to all alone without 50 brothers to snitch on him. Or take electricity. Though I was assured it didn’t explode like gas, it seemed to be an awfully magical source of power, and that could only mean one thing: Freemasons. Even football. ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Common Scents
I’m not nearly as upset about this forthcoming Notre Dame perfume as most people might think. You must remember that the every Main Building I every built (including the one I burned) housed not only my Presidential office, but also dormitories for the lads. That’s right – I worked 16-hour days behind a desk and under the miasma generated by hard-working student bodies. That’s why I had a strict, twice-weekly bathing rule, as well as an unbreakable 4:00 Saturday foot-washing command. Even ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: True Colors
There has been much criticism leveled at our basketball team’s tournament uniforms, some of it at a very high level. I suppose I can’t really blame the President of the United States for lashing out at us – after all, we keep suing him. But his disdain is only a mere fraction of the fulsome scorn heaped upon these vaguely mucosal sports togs by the Almighty Alumni. Yet, this sartorial experimentation should come as no surprise, since the football team dressed in uniforms of highly ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Verses Versus
Take heart! All the signs point to it – Spring is near! It’s a new month, the month of rebirth: Easter, bunnies, and eggs. Camp Kelly is beginning; people are already making plans for the Blue & Gold Game. And the Pope emerged from his palace, saw his shadow, and flew to the hills. Everything old is soon to be new again, even if our blighted weather continues to oppress us. I recently picked up a book which I thought was a meditation on Indiana winters; it was called 50 Shades of ...
HLS Book Review: Always Fighting Irish
In our October Giveaway post, I mentioned that we here at HLS were lucky enough to get some promotional copies of Always Fighting Irish: Players, Coaches, and Fans Share Their Passion for Notre Dame Football. Thanks to some work travel, I was finally able to have some time to work through this 400+ page work compiled by John Heisler (ND's Senior Associate Athletics Director for Media and Broadcast Relations) and Tim Prister (Senior Editor of IrishIllustrated.com). I must say, I came away very ...
ND Reveals the Best “The Shirt” Design Since….Well…Ever.
So ND just spammed me about the new "The Shirt" for 2008 and I have to say, Wow. WOW. I mean, I am excited. Most years we have some horribly ugly and gaudy thing with some lame configuration of 9 different images all jammed into the back with a pithy saying like "shake down the thunder". Don't get me wrong - I like the tradition of The Shirt and that designs are based in long-loved and storied ND traditions. I love the ND pride inherent in The Shirt and the philanthropic nature of ...
New Anti-Jumbotron Shirts! Now With 50% Less Of Us On Them!
That didn't sound right. Anyway, we've modified the shirt design for those who don't want to be a walking billboard for HLS. You can fight evil by purchasing them here. ...
We’ve Got Swag! Yes We Do! And We Want It All To Be Won By You!
Ready! OK! Sorry, that was lame. I'd intended to make this post with a pic of Will Ferrel cheering from that SNL skit, but I couldn't find one. Anyway, what is very not lame, is this: HLS is having their first ever readers' contest. What's even more very not lame is that the good folks a A&E Home Video have provided us with actual, desireable items that people, like you, might actually want! And all this just in time for Christmas! I wont waste your time. You don't really care ...
GM to Unveil New Series of Notre Dame Wheaties Boxes
SOUTH BEND—Due to the high volume of sales of the Notre Dame-themed Wheaties box, General Mills has decided to release a Notre Dame-themed series of the popular orange boxes best known for immortalizing prominent figures in sports history. “We wanted to do something a little bit different and step away from the sports motif a little bit,†GM spokesman Tom Addle said. “We also saw the crazy number of boxes we sold by slapping Notre Dame on the front of them. Did you know I once sold ...