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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 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 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 July 18, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Irish stew Notre Dame quarterback controversy looks awfully familiar |
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 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 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 November 9, 2001 Tim Layden |
Irish stew Is head coach Bob Davie solely to blame for Notre Dame football's slide? |
Sports Illustrated September 24, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Don't jump the gun Notre Dame's road (to Tempe?) gets tougher in October |
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 Illustrated September 25, 2002 Frank Deford |
Father Football Notre Dame feels the pull between pigskin and academics. |
Sports Illustrated October 3, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Conspiracy theory There's just no pleasing Notre Dame followers |
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 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 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 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 November 29, 2000 Austin Murphy |
Inside College Football Notre Dame sacked USC and muscled its way into the BCS picture... |
Sports Central November 8, 2007 Kevin Beane |
In Praise of the Quarterback Sneak The play never fails. |
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 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 December 2, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Boosters Behaving Badly You think Tyrone Willingham is the only coach unjustly fired this week? Think again. |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
College Football: Burning Questions Is is better to be lucky than good?... Whither Notre Dame?... Did BYU get cheated?... |
Sports Illustrated July 3, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Early tests loom for several teams Gearing up for the college football season. |
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 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. |
Sports Illustrated August 27, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Lord Helps Them Quarterback Jammal Lord gives Nebraska hope even when the offense doesn't click. |
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 Central September 7, 2005 Avery Smith |
Notes on a Bluebook: Week 1 What happened to the Sooners?... Notre Dame looked superb against the Pitt Panthers... The race for the Heisman Trophy... Upcoming games to watch... Letters... |
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 Central September 8, 2005 Mark Chalifoux |
The Sports Gospel Curse The author recalls the many cases where he seemingly jinxed sports teams and players by writing about them. |
Sports Illustrated September 5, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Irish impress Notre Dame football shows mettle with shutout of Maryland. |
Sports Illustrated September 16, 2002 Phil Taylor |
The cool crowd Levelheadedness is one of sports' most underrated virtues. |
Sports Illustrated January 9, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
More of the same Black college football coaches get snubbed for top jobs again... |
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 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 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 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. |
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. |
AskMen.com Brandon Lang |
Football: Weekly Picks This weeks college and NFL picks: Packers vs. Vikings... Bills vs. Colts... Air Force vs. Notre Dame... Maryland vs. University of Miami... |
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 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 Central December 12, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
2012 College Football Bowl Pool Guide College football is stupid. Not the sport itself, but how it runs its post-season. Even when we get our long-awaited playoff, it's still going to be stupid. |
Sports Illustrated October 5, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Tossing darts Beyond Nebraska and FSU, Top 25 is anyone's guess... |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2002 Kelley King |
And the Winners Are ... SI's picks for all the best -- and worst -- from an eventful college football season |
Sports Illustrated January 31, 2002 Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football... |
Sports Central December 16, 2007 Brad Oremland |
The NFL's Best Offense Ever With apologies to the 1941 Bears and the San Diego Chargers in general, here are the 10 best offenses in league history. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated September 13, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
We agree to disagree on Top 25 The fringes of this here mailbag has been signed by Purdue and Oklahoma fans who are incensed, outraged and generally fixin' to go to battle over my belief that there are 25 better teams out there... |