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Notre Dame Football History
Notre Dame, Our Mother: The Most Legendary ND Coach You’ve Never Heard Of
If you’ve ever tuned into the end of an NBC broadcast of a Notre Dame football game, like most of…
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The Andrew Hendrix Experience
After the Stanford game, the Notre Dame message boards understandably lit up with talk of Andrew Hendrix. Some were quick…
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Dissecting the Big Least
I’m not just saying this because I’m a bitter Colts fan, but leave it to a Steel Town sportswriter to…
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Irish Stewed: Catholics, Convicts, and the Return of the Spectacle
When Sun Bowl officials announced that the University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami had accepted invitations to…
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Irish Stewed: Please, call them “Southern Cal”
The year was 1988. And Notre Dame was winning football games. All of them. It started with the home opener…
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Irish Stewed: The Not-so-Metrosexual Offense
Pitt week is upon us. Yawn. “But Mac, it’s Notre Dame’s longest rivalry outside of Navy, USC, Purdue and Michigan…
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Irish Stewed: Tying One for the Gipper and Choking on Applesauce
There was a time when the Notre Dame-Michigan State rivalry was the only thing that mattered to the entire country,…
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Irish Stewed: The Road Less Traveled from 1887
The date was November 23, 1887. Geronimo had just surrendered. Coca-Cola and the Statue of Liberty were one-year-old. The population…
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Irish Stewed: Deconstructing Marve and Beating the Boilers
Let me be upfront about a couple things. First off, I probably like Purdue more than most Notre Dame fans;…
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Irish Stewed: Waking Up the Echoes and Shutting Up the Idiots
Chicago Tribune sportswriter David Haugh recently penned an almost obscenely ill-informed editorial on Notre Dame football that I feel requires…
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Repost – Irish Stewed: Fun with Numbers
The follow post was written in the middle of the season by UHND’s own McSweeney. Originally posted on November 13,…
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Irish Stewed: Intro to Brian Kelly 101
In the early 1980s, Brian Kelly was a political science major and starting linebacker at Assumption College, a Worcester-based Catholic…
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Irish Stewed: Blood in the Water, Idiots at the Microphone
As the curtain was drawn on the ND-UConn game—on yet another late-game collapse by a Charlie Weis-coached team—the sports media…
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Irish Stewed: Anchors Aweigh! (But watch out for those knees.)
If you don’t know the story behind the Notre Dame-Naval Academy rivalry, I’ll give you the Cliffs Notes version. In…
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Irish Stewed: Sean Astin, David Gordon, and Jesuit Butt Kicking
Neither Jim nor I was what you’d call in great physical shape. We curled around the south side of the…
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Irish Stewed: The Florida University – South Coast Edition
The day was unseasonably cool, but the sun had finally come out, warming the air just enough so I could…
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Irish Stewed: U-Dub, Jake Locker, and Why I’m Sick of Blaming Ty
Trying to summon genuine rancor for the upcoming Washington matchup is next to impossible. Washington is a reputable school situated…
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Irish Stewed: The Spoilermakers
I have a confession to make: I don’t hate Purdue. Both my sisters attended the school, as well as at…
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Raising the Bar
I’m not going to sit here and play Monday morning quarterback. Suffice to say, if you told me before the…
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The Centennial Celebration You Don’t Know About
On November 23, 1887, there were 38 states. Grover Cleveland was president, the first Democrat to hold the office since…
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Bowl Bull: The Myth of Notre Dame’s Preferential Treatment
As I watched Ohio State lose to Texas in the Fiesta Bowl, putting the finishing touches on the Big Ten’s…
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WANTED: Has-been dynasty seeks I-AA teams, preferably sub-.500
Is this a joke, Bobby? On Friday, February 8, Florida State released its 2008 football schedule. The mighty Noles will…
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ESPN’s Recruiting “Experts” Are Agenda-Driven Idiots
So I woke up yesterday morning expecting to thoroughly enjoy National Signing Day. Most recruiting analysts projected Notre Dame as…
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Irish Players Define 2007-08 NFL Playoffs
AP Photo/Eric Gray Here we are, less than 24 hours from National Signing Day. Coach Charlie Weis is on the…
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Ryan Grant: A Game for the Ages
Photo from NY Times The date was October 11, 2003. Julius Jones had just run wild on the 15th-ranked Pitt…
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