A Notre Dame Football Blog
To Demetrius Jackson, Thank you for bringing celebrity status back to Notre Dame basketball. Thank you for being in the headlines and welcoming the fame. Thank you for being the face of Notre Dame basketball. Thank you for being apart of the emergence of Dunks DuLac. Thank you for the tears, though they were hard to see, it was great knowing we had a captain that cared deeply about this team. We needed someone to help spark the fire and I thank you for taking that role. Thank you for not ...
Normally I write on the last day of the week, and I title my article “Good Fridays w/Padre.” For religious reasons, this is the one week of the year during which I simply cannot write that column. I also consider Maundy Thursday off limits because of the whole Last Supper thing. That left me with Palm Sunday, which was otherwise occupied by watching the basketball lads defeating a giant leprechaun and his Texan team (and I must applaud the cheerleaders’ intensity during that Pom Sunday game); ...
Everyone’s favorite time of the year is back, back again. March Madness. Making a bracket, watching all the upsets and having basketball on 24/7 are some of the best parts of the tournament. UNLESS, you are a student. Making a bracket is a tricky situation when you are a student. Do you stay loyal and put your team in the final? Or do you have a bracket based on skill and competition, that may have your team losing in the first round? These issues are too real when attending ...
Our lucky freshman who get to hang around the world’s greatest university for 5-years. You may notice him in a tie more than our beloved gold jersey, but Burns is just gearing up for an epic 2016 season. Elijah Burns is another East Coast (best coast?) guy on our basketball team. He is a whopping 6-9/ 234 lb forward. Burns transferred to Blair Academy during high schoool, where he played two years at the alma mater of greats such as Luol Deng (I met his family in the elevator at the ...
Notre Dame has had a few spelling issues in the past and a member of the basketball team has just been added to the list of Notre Dame misspellings. Rex Pflueger, Barstool ND’s favorite basketball player and this week’s Freshman Spotlight had the unfortunate experience of being an example of why we proofread things. (I don’t necessarily follow this advice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I am also not as important as Under Armour) The best part is that it took until halftime for anyone on the team to ...
It’s an upside down world lately. I feel like Ferdinand and Isabella when Columbus came back. I mean I feel bewildered, not greedy and despotic. If I wanted a comparison for greedy and despotic, I’d use ESPN. I am bewildered at the odd inversions and reversals of these times. The football team had a mediocre season, while the basketball team is in the top ten. The Joyce Center picks up its 600th victory, while the Stadium ended the season with two wrenching losses. The Stadium is becoming ...