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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.   |
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
September 25, 2002
Frank Deford |
Father Football Notre Dame feels the pull between pigskin and academics. |
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 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
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... |
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. |
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 Illustrated
November 9, 2001
Tim Layden |
Irish stew Is head coach Bob Davie solely to blame for Notre Dame football's slide? |
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 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
October 3, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Conspiracy theory There's just no pleasing Notre Dame followers |
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
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. |
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
November 8, 2007
Kevin Beane |
In Praise of the Quarterback Sneak The play never fails. |
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. |
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 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. |
Sports Illustrated
October 16, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Half-season awards Honoring the best in what so far has been a thrilling college football season |
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
December 2, 2004
Kevin Beane |
Boosters Behaving Badly You think Tyrone Willingham is the only coach unjustly fired this week? Think again. |
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 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 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
November 29, 2000
Austin Murphy |
Inside College Football Notre Dame sacked USC and muscled its way into the BCS picture... |
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... |
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
July 18, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Irish stew Notre Dame quarterback controversy looks awfully familiar |
Sports Illustrated
September 24, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Don't jump the gun Notre Dame's road (to Tempe?) gets tougher in October |
AskMen.com
September 30, 2003 |
Interview: Joe Montana The NFL Hall of Famer went from seventh string QB at Notre Dame University, to MVP as a San Francisco 49ers quarterback. Although he's off the field today, he is busy putting his business degree to good use. |
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
January 22, 2004
Michael Beshara |
Heaven? No, it's Nebraska As college football has slowly been stripped of its innocence by such villains as the BCS and conference championship games, Nebraska has remained the one national powerhouse program that seems entrenched in its fabled past. |
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. |
Salon.com
August 4, 2000
Allen Barra |
Joe Montana: Tarnished hero He was the greatest quarterback ever, but when he had a chance to be a leader in real life, he punked out. |
Salon.com
November 15, 2000
Allen Barra |
The invisible superstar Tim Brown's career is a long tale of personal dominance in the service of bad teams. But this year he may finally get some glory... |
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
November 14, 2012
Andrew Jones |
What Alabama's Loss Means For BCS College football fans were worried a choice between Kansas State and Oregon for the right to battle Alabama for the national championship would be close to impossible to make and then the unthinkable happened: Alabama lost. |
Sports Central
September 21, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Dealing and Reeling So who is the emerging team in college football that could do damage on a national level? |
Sports Central
December 29, 2004
David Martin |
Pardon the Incoherence Bowl Week, an ESPN broadcast bonanza, is well underway, but this writer confesses to being not terribly interested. |
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
October 12, 2005
Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #5: Pasadena Projections A closer look at the ten teams with the best shot at heading to the Rose Bowl. |
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 Central
April 13, 2006
Kevin Beane |
Four Months and 18 Days Four months and 18 days is how long we have to wait for college football to arrive. And here are the best 10 games (non-conference or otherwise, in no particular order) that will kick off week one. |
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. |
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. |
Sports Central
November 5, 2012
Jonathan Lowe |
Valid Excuses When everything settles down on December 2nd, we'll have our championship matchup for this year. Assuming the Ducks, Wildcats, and Irish all win out, it should be fun to find out which team gets the chance to validate more than just their fans' parking at the area hotels in Miami. |
Sports Illustrated
October 10, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Virginia Tech is the real deal My opinion of Virginia Tech began to change once I started spending time there. Frank Beamer is a very good coach with a very good staff. They seem to find players who arrive without an ego. |
