Category: Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Matt Barkley certainly doesn't mind the extra attention. The USC quarterback is used to it by now. He simply thinks it's funny that this weekend's Pac-12 duel between the Trojans and the Stanford Cardinal is being billed as a game between he and Andrew Luck -- a pair of the ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
As Brian Kelly puts it, if Notre Dame runs the table this season, there can't really be a debate as to whether the Irish belong in the national championship game. Then again, the Notre Dame second-year head coach knows going undefeated against this slate is going to be tough.
The Irish ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Just three seasons ago, Brady Hoke was getting the Ball State Cardinals ready for what would wind up being a dream season. They very nearly went undefeated and the special year had Hoke packing his bags for San Diego State. In two seasons there, he turned around an Aztecs program ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
The sports world is inching closer-and-closer to the precipice of "March Madness" as the college basketball community is now in the early stages of conference tournament play. The Big East tournament will catch the eyes of most college basketball fans being that the conference will most likely send the most ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Like many teams in the Big East, Notre Dame is a bit puzzling to figure out. The Fighting Irish have now beaten then top-10 teams in Georgetown, Connecticut and, most recently, Pittsburgh. They've also lost to highly ranked teams in Syracuse and Kentucky.
Adding to the confusion, they recently dropped road ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
NFL Hall of Famer and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown makes some good points. I at least agree with two out of the three.
First, speaking after the injury to Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant, Brown says the rookie should no longer return kicks after suffering a season-ending injury. Hard to ...
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
Bo Ryan, Jim Tressel, and Brian Kelly are three of the best and most respected head coaches in their respective sports. They are also part of a trend that makes a lot of sense. All three of those coaches led non-Division I schools to multiple NCAA national ...
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
The 2010 NFL Draft class is full of quality quarterbacks and each one of them was a proven winner in college. Of all of the quarterbacks in the draft, Jimmy Clausen seems to be the most NFL-ready because he learned the pro-style offense under the tutelage of Charlie Weis, now ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Golden Tate could be a sleeper in this year’s NFL Draft. Tate is an all-around athlete at the wide receiver position that can return kicks and break the game wide open with long breakaway touchdown catches. Tate is strong and hard to bring down and he has the leaping ability to get ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Jimmy Clausen's three-year career at the University of Notre Dame was inconsistent at best. Very early in his high school career, Clausen was heralded as the top player in his class, even being featured in a SportsCenter piece and being tabbed "The Kid with the Golden Arm" by Sports Illustrated. ...
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