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Salon.com September 27, 2002 Allen Barra |
Notre Dame's return to glory! (Part 23) Why does the college's legendary -- but creaky -- football program have to keep coming back? |
Sports Central September 3, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Despite Win, Fighting Irish Still Lost For those who might not remember it, Notre Dame football used to mean something. It was a higher state of intercollegiate being. But it's been a while since those Irish glory years. |
Sports Central September 14, 2004 Mark Chalifoux |
Luck of the Irish Returns to South Bend A star was born in South Bend on Saturday, in the shape of super-frosh Darius Walker, who gained 115 yards in his first three quarters of college ball, scoring two touchdowns on his way into Irish lore. Paul Hornung must've been proud. |
Salon.com November 10, 2000 Allen Barra |
Have the Fighting Irish gone soft? Notre Dame is enforcing stricter academic standards in a push to deemphasize football. Why now? |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Bob Davie's Firing: The End Came at the Start On Dec. 5, 2000, in the wake of Notre Dame's 9-2 regular season, athletic director Kevin White extended coach Bob Davie's $1 million-a-year contract through 2005. On Sunday, three days short of the extension's first anniversary, White fired Davie... |
Sports Central November 9, 2005 Mike Griffenberg |
Notre Dame Not as Good as Advertised However, Notre Dame will be a major player in the college football world as long as Charlie Weis is there, just not this year. |
Sports Central November 30, 2004 Mark Chalifoux |
Confessions of a Notre Dame Fan I like Tyrone Willingham and I really wanted him to succeed. He is a great person and a good coach, but his time at Notre Dame has been wasted. |
Sports Illustrated December 31, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Willingham will get the job done After failing in its first attempt to replace Bob Davie, when George O'Leary admitted to lies on his resume, Notre Dame is close to hiring Stanford coach Tyrone Willingham to revive its football program... |
Sports Illustrated November 9, 2001 Tim Layden |
Irish stew Is head coach Bob Davie solely to blame for Notre Dame football's slide? |
Sports Illustrated January 4, 2002 Tim Layden |
Willing And Able This much is true: On New Year's Eve, Notre Dame made the most of an unfortunate mulligan when it hired Tyrone Willingham as football coach to fill the void left by the disgraced George O'Leary... |
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Mark Hyman |
Business Wants A Piece Of Charlie By reviving the Irish, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis has become a hot commodity. |
Sports Central August 26, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Problems Under the Golden Dome Following its 1977 national championship, punctuated by a decisive victory over No. 11 Texas in the Cotton Bowl, the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish slipped in the national rankings. |
Sports Central January 4, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Irish on Road Back to Glory An argument in n defense of Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis. |
Sports Central October 18, 2005 Mark Chalifoux |
Weis Leads Notre Dame Into New Era Polls won't matter in the end if (when) Notre Dame takes care of business by winning out. |
Sports Central May 27, 2010 Mark Chalifoux |
The New Rules of Being a Sports Fan Is it necessary to root for your alma mater? |
Sports Central March 20, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Who's Hot and Cold in Big Ten Expansion Talk Hot: William Blair Company -- Why is an investment firm hot? The Chicago Tribune recently reported that this investment firm evaluated five schools: Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Missouri, Syracuse, and Rutgers for the purpose of Big Ten expansion. |
Salon.com April 23, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Every basket must count! Bush to Notre Dame women's basketball team: You won, no matter what anybody tells you... |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2000 Kelley King |
Darkened Knights There are many reasons why Rutgers should win in football, but the Scarlet Knights continue to lose |
Sports Central October 6, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Who Has It Worse, the Irish or Mets? Who would you rather be right now: a Notre Dame football fan or a New York Mets fan? |
Sports Illustrated November 29, 2000 Austin Murphy |
Inside College Football Notre Dame sacked USC and muscled its way into the BCS picture... |
Fast Company November 2010 Rachel Arndt |
College Football by the Numbers America loves its college football, even if we'd like to throw a gazillion penalty flags at the Bowl Championship Series. Here's a look at the business of the BCS, bowl season, and college football, by the numbers. |
Sports Illustrated October 3, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Conspiracy theory There's just no pleasing Notre Dame followers |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2002 Phil Taylor |
Simply Excellent When a black head coach like Tyrone Willingham can be seen as the leading authority figure in his sport, when a black manager like Dusty Baker can sit back and wait for a bidding war over his services, there is something fundamentally different about racial attitudes in sports. |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2009 Adrian Rush |
A Gridiron Golden Parachute? Like CEOs, college football coaches also take the money and run these days. |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Going Coastal Notre Dame spent the spring trying to get a grip on its new football coach's West Coast attack... |
Sports Central November 6, 2005 Sara Normand |
USC/ND Greatest College Game Ever? Southern California versus Notre Dame on October 15, 2005 could go down as the greatest four hours in college football history. And the last three minutes could qualify it as the most controversial, as well. |
Sports Central November 8, 2007 Kevin Beane |
In Praise of the Quarterback Sneak The play never fails. |
Sports Central December 21, 2004 Eric Poole |
Shoot Me Before I Metaphor Again By hiring Walt Harris, Stanford University saved Pitt from having the most laughable coach firing of the 2004 aftermath. |
Sports Illustrated November 20, 2002 Steve Rushin |
Planet Notre Dame Meet the insomniac citizens of Planet Irish, who hold their ears to Internet radio for 3 a.m. kickoffs or sit in their back garden in a slanting rain with a transistor radio. |
Sports Central July 23, 2015 Jean Neuberger |
Big 12 Needs to Be 12, and Soon As we head into the 2015 college football season, one would've thought that, during this, the "talking-season," one would've thought that the biggest push from coaches and administrator, especially those in the Big 12, would be an expansion of the College Football Playoff to eight teams. |
Sports Central December 2, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Boosters Behaving Badly You think Tyrone Willingham is the only coach unjustly fired this week? Think again. |
Sports Central December 3, 2004 David Martin |
Bad Times For College Football Fans This college football season opened with as much hope and as great an expectation of success and great competition as any in recent memory. Now, we must consider what has gone wrong with the game of college football. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2000 Frank Deford |
Pray by play Many Christians are angered that the Supreme Court has banned official prayers at football games. The passion which this matter invokes surprises a great many people, but football has always been our sport most connected with religion... |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
College Football Programs Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, analyzed 115 of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools to calculate the worth of the football programs, and the numbers are jaw-dropping. |
Salon.com November 29, 2001 Allen Barra |
Bring back the arbitrary college football polls! Sure, the old championship polls were bogus -- but the current system is just as bogus, and it doesn't even give fans anything to argue about... |
Sports Illustrated September 24, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Don't jump the gun Notre Dame's road (to Tempe?) gets tougher in October |
Sports Central December 3, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Not So Fighting Irish in '07 One has to look at one person for Notre dame's disappointing season -- Charlie Weis. |
Sports Illustrated January 31, 2002 Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football... |
Sports Central December 22, 2004 Kevin Ferra |
The Nature of the Business It should be a collegiate rule that head coaching changes can not be made until after the bowl games have ended. The least they could do is give players the best opportunity to win the games that they have worked their entire lives for. |
AskMen.com Andrew Segal |
Top 10: Football Movies With Friday Night Lights being hailed by Sports Illustrated as "one of the greatest sports stories of all time," here's a look back at the Top 10 Football Movies of decades past. |
Sports Central September 13, 2004 Kenneth Asuquo |
Wolverines Wake Up the Echoes Michigan better note that their team is not the same as last year's team. The whispers of being overrated are starting to get louder. |
Sports Illustrated March 22, 2000 |
Football is the real villain The NCAA tournament always draws an inordinate amount of critical interest about how much money is involved in college athletics... |
Sports Central August 5, 2009 Jean Neuberger |
7 Bold College Football Predictions With college football officially just a month away, it's time to make some predictions for the upcoming season. |
Sports Central November 27, 2006 Alfons Prince |
Down to the Wire ... Again With only one week left in the 2006 college football regular season, it is looking like the bowl championship series (BCS) will once again escape any major controversy. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Early returns Three programs that have shown signs of football arthritis won in unexpectedly glorious fashion. Notre Dame, Penn State and USC all beat ranked opponents, and their teams, if not their actual horn-rimmed, white-socked coaches, look 25 years younger. |
Salon.com November 23, 2002 Allen Barra |
Of bowls and polls College football's weird champion-choosing process has taken the arguments -- and the fun -- out of New Year's Day. |
Sports Illustrated January 17, 2001 Frank Deford |
Our college samurai A privileged athletic class is caustic to college life... |
Sports Illustrated October 11, 2000 Frank Deford |
Saturday secession Northeasterners adrift when it comes to collegiate football... |
Sports Central August 24, 2006 Kevin Beane |
College Football Picks: Hating Notre Dame Here are the five games that differ the most with the opening Las Vegas line. |
Sports Illustrated June 1, 2000 Tim Layden |
Popularity contest Successful teams are a big draw for prospective students |